Jimmy Barrett and Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter on the morning of 08/21/2019, including: With new plans to send astronauts back to the moon, NASA announced that its center in Huntsville, Alabama will lead a lunar landing program instead of Houston. The new lunar program is called the Artemis Program, named after the goddess of the moon in Greek mythology. After the Artemis Program sends more astronauts to the moon by 2024, NASA hopes to use the moon as a stepping-stone for future missions to Mars. On Friday, August 16, Jim Bridenstine, the Administrator of NASA, made an announcement regarding the lunar lander for the Artemis Program. At the press conference in Huntsville, he told reporters that the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, rather than the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, would lead the development of the human landing system for the lander. Bridenstine noted that Texas would be leading a project of its own as part of the Artemis Program. “It’s also true that the Johnson Space Center is leading the Gateway Program,” he stated. “The Gateway Program is that space station in orbit around the moon that is, think of it as a command module in orbit for fifteen years—a reusable command module. Unhappy with recent polls from the network showing the incumbent would lose the 2020 election to the top Democratic contenders, Trump trashed Fox News. He even made a vague 2020 debate threat saying, “I’m the one that calls the shots”, a suggestion some pundits see as a veiled attempt to warn the network they may be left out in the cold during the presidential election season. After immigration, these may be the 2 biggest issues that will define the 2020 election – the economy and guns. Trump, who has made jobs and the economy the centerpiece of his presidency, is facing growing fears that the economy could head into a recession next year amid a trade war and sluggish growth in China that threatens to set back the global economy. Trump also faces a decision about how far he wants to go on gun control after two mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, reinvigorated efforts in Congress to move forward with legislation. Profanity — once considered a major no-no among those seeking public office — is no longer an earth-shattering political snafu. And according to new research, this year could be on track to see members of Congress swearing up a storm more than ever before. In analysis conducted exclusively for ITK, GovPredict, a government relations software company, found that the frequency of lawmakers using words that might make one’s grandmother blush has increased steadily since 2014.