(Radio Iowa) – Some Iowa ingenuity will be going into orbit and eventually onto the surface of the Moon. Collins Aerospace in Cedar Rapids is the choice to produce the next generation of spacesuits for American astronauts. Collins officials say their design offers enhanced mobility, they’re lighter than the current suits and will allow for longer missions. The suits are to be used by astronauts working outside the International Space Station and, in the next decade, on the Moon.

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The suits boast being able to accommodate nearly every body type and they can rapidly incorporate new technologies. Collins also designed the first spacesuits used by Apollo astronauts in the 1960s and ’70s.

(Council Bluffs, Iowa) – The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office reports a man was arrested on a felony warrant Wednesday afternoon, in Carter Lake. An on-duty Sheriff’s Deputy noticed the male passenger in a 2007 Saturn Ion was violating the seatbelt law, and conducted a traffic stop. As a result, a records checked revealed the passenger, 44-year-old Chad Ray Delezene was wanted for Violation of Probation. He was taken into custody and transported to the Pott. County Jail and later released.

And two people being held in separate Nebraska jails were transported to the Pott. County Jail, Wednesday, to answer to their Iowa charges. 45-year-old Rhonda Kay Tabler was picked-up from the Cass County, NE jail on an outstanding Theft in the 2nd Degree, warrant. 21-year-old Marc Anthony Aviles, of Council Bluffs, was taken into custody at the Sarpy County, NE, Jail, on a warrant for Violation of Probation.

(Radio Iowa) – An organization that evaluates the reliability of the nation’s electric grid says there’s a high risk of energy shortfalls in Iowa this summer. The Des Moines Register reports the Iowa Utilities Board is urging the companies that provide electricity to Iowans to prepare customers for what may be ahead. A non-profit that analyzes the North American power grid note temperatures and drought conditions are predicted to be above normal this summer in the western half of the United States. That will drive up peak demand for electricity. The Electric Reliability Organization for North America warns there’s a high risk of power outages in Iowa and 14 other states over the summer months.

(Washington, D-C) – A federal judge in Washington, D-C, Wednesday, ordered a father and son from northern Iowa serve time in prison for their participation in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. The men, 51-year-old Daryl Johnson and his son, 30-year-old Daniel Johnson, both of St. Ansgar, admitted to entering the building through a broken window and pushing through a police line once inside.

While the entire encounter lasted roughly twenty seconds, the pair were in the Capitol for 26 minutes. The pair were sentenced on one felony count of civil disorder, because of their guilty plea to that charge the other counts they faced were dismissed.

Daryl Johnson will serve 30 days in jail and Daniel Johnson with serve four months. Defense attorneys for both men sought probation and no jail time. Daniel Johnson has three prior convictions, all misdemeanors.

Both men expressed their apologies to Judge Dabney Friedrich and those at the capitol, for their actions on that day.