Random News and Notes 1 April
We start today’s April Fools day edition of RNN with an all too real story out of Atlanta. Would-be passengers on Spirit Airlines had a full-on donnybrook in the boarding area at Hartsfield-Jackson airport. We get to see a 37 second clip.
It seems fatigue set in over a boarding dispute. Cops came and broke it up, and no word of charges or arrests.
NASA’s Artemis mission is a go. Fuelling operations for the return of manned spaceflight to the moon has begun. It has been 53 years since Apollo 17, the last manned lunar mission. All manned spaceflight since the end of Apollo have been low-earth orbit missions.
Artemis II will send four astronauts in the Orion spacecraft on a deep space test mission, advancing NASA’s goal of sustainable human presence on and around the Moon.
Look for launch coverage here later today.
In the this is something you see everyday category, we have video of an Ohio class SSGN (the guided missile variant of the Ohio class) doing an underway crew change. This particular boomer has the Dry Dock Shelter attached. The DDS is designed to carry SEAL delivery vehicles.
It can also carry 133 Tomahawk missiles.
Today is an important day at SCOTUS. Oral arguments are being held in Trump v Barbara, the birthright citizenship case. The snippets of the audio I’ve seen seem to point to the 6 conservatives looking to the very narrow question in Wong Kim Ark, the 1898 case that previously determined who was eligible for citizenship.
This is a fraught question, and I don’t feel qualified to give an opinion on which way the Court will go.
Epic Fury News
Transits of the Strait of Hormuz are increasing. While nowhere near the number of transits before the outbreak of hostilities, they are on the upswing.
The UAE has announced it was prepping to aid in the reopening of the strait. They join the Kingdom and Kuwait in openly aiding the US.