Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.
Two U.S. Military planes were shot down in separate incidents on Friday,
escalating tensions in the ongoing conflict with Iran.
NPR's Tom Bowman reports two American crew members were rescued, but another remains missing.
Officials are telling me the F-15 was shot down over southwest Iran.
Not sure what took it out, anti-aircraft gun or a missile.
Not sure which one was rescued.
And also NPR just confirmed a New York Times report that a second U.S. Aircraft was shot down,
an A-10 Warthog, somewhere near the Strait of Hormuz.
That pilot was rescued.
NPR's Tom Bowman, meanwhile Israel, says it's carried out a new series of attacks on key infrastructure in Tehran.
The Artemis II astronauts are now more than 130,000 miles away from Earth.
NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boys reports the crew members are heading toward the moon
for the first lunar flyby in over 50 years.
With the Orion spacecraft now on the trajectory that will take it around the moon and back,
the crew has more time to rest.
The four astronauts finally got to talk to their families back on the ground, and they've been taking pictures.
Howard Hugh is the Orion program manager at NASA.
He says his favorite photo so far shows the inside of the spacecraft and one of its windows.
It's just awesome to see from our spaceship out the window.