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This week on NewsNight, the panel, including WMFE reporter Brendan Byrne, looks at the latest on NASA’s Commercial Crew program as human launches return to the Space Coast. As schools break for the summer, the state’s university system is preparing for a phased return to campus. We’ll discuss how remote learning has changed education in Florida. Plus, all the latest on COVID-19.

Since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011, NASA has relied solely on the Russian space agency to send astronauts into orbit. That reliance ends as SpaceX launches humans from the U.S. for the first time in nearly a decade. RETURN TO FLIGHT is a special presentation from WMFE that aired ahead of that historic mission.

Your coronavirus update for 6/01.

Olivia Hooker was 6 at the time of the riot. Now, at 103, Hooker is believed to be the last surviving witness to what is considered one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.

President Trump called Floyd's death a "grave tragedy" that "should never have happened." But once he was back on Twitter, he again inflamed tensions, with machismo and politics at the forefront.

In Minneapolis, where Floyd died, a semitractor-trailer drove into a crowd of peaceful protesters marching on an interstate. Elsewhere, there were reports of police firing tear gas and rubber bullets.

Protesters in Washington, D.C., marched to the White House to protest the death of George Floyd in police custody, where they clashed with the Secret Service.

NPR's analysis shows just how stark the impact has been on African-Americans and Latinos. Experts say the pandemic will go on — for everyone — unless we direct resources where they're most needed.

Your coronavirus update for 5/30.

SpaceX will try once again to launch two NASA astronauts from the Kennedy Space Center Saturday but weather could delay the launch once more.