NASA’s Orion spacecraft with Artemis II crewmembers NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist aboard was seen as it splashed down at 5:07 p.m. PDT in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, Friday, April 10, 2026.
NASA’s Artemis II mission took the astronauts on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth.
The first astronauts to travel to the Moon in more than half a century are back on Earth after a record-setting mission aboard NASA’s Artemis II test flight.
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen splashed down at 5:07 p.m. PDT Friday off the coast of San Diego, completing a nearly 10-day journey that took them 252,756 miles from home at their farthest distance from Earth.
Read this excellent article by my friends Michael Outram and Peter Swartz, “Modern Border Management: Leveraging AI Systems for Strategic Advantage”, that is published in the World Customs Journal (Vol 20, No 1, 2026).
Customs and border agencies face a five-dimensional challenge that no single tool or policy can address alone: securing against illicit flows, enabling legitimate commerce through surging e-commerce volumes, enforcing compliance across competing regulatory regimes, detecting grey-zone and hybrid threats that exploit cross-border systems, and safeguarding economic security across multi-tier supply chains.
The traditional framing treats facilitation and security as a zero-sum trade-off. This article argues they don’t have to be. AI-enabled systems, demonstrated through practical applications including automated value chain analysis and HS code assignment, can shift border management toward a positive-sum framework where better visibility produces both stronger assurance and faster throughput.
Click: Here
Congratulations to the economists and statisticians from the World Trade Organization Secretariat for publishing a fascinating Global Trade Outlook and Statistics report yesterday. This should be required reading for anyone trying to understand current developments in global trade.
Read the report: Here
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