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<title>Daily Smile: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

No idea how they survive in the wild...

Daily Smile: Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Coy Knobel

Don Day Weather

Sunny in Wyoming on Friday. Chance for rain overnight in the north central and northeast. Highs from the low 70s to low 90s. Lows from the low 30s to low 50s.

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Sunny today with a high near 84 and wind gusts as high as 24 mph. Mostly clear and breezy overnight with a low near 45 and wind gusts as high as 24 mph.

Sunny today with a high near 86 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph. Mostly clear and breezy overnight with a low near 46 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph.

 Sunny today with a high near 86 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph. Mostly clear and breezy overnight with a low near 48 and wind gusts as high as 29 mph.

 Sunny today with a high near 74 and wind from 11-16 mph. Mostly clear overnight with a low near 41.

  Sunny and breezy today with a high near 81 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph. Mostly clear and breezy overnight with a low near 45 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph.

Sunny and breezy today with a high near 73 and wind gusts as high as 29 mph. Mostly clear and breezy overnight with a low near 40 and wind gusts as high as 28 mph.

Sunny and breezy today with a high near 72 and wind gusts as high as 28 mph. Mostly clear and breezy overnight with a low near 35 and wind gusts as high as 28 mph.

 Sunny today with a high near 76 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph. Mostly clear overnight with a low near 39 and wind gusts as high as 21 mph.

  Sunny and breezy today with a high near 73 and wind gusts as high as 26 mph. Mostly clear and breezy overnight with a low near 34 and wind gusts as high as 26 mph.

 Sunny and breezy today with a high near 70 and wind gusts as high as 33 mph. Mostly clear and breezy overnight with a low near 38 and wind gusts as high as 33 mph.

  Sunny today with a high near 74 and wind gusts as high as 24 mph. Mostly clear overnight with a low near 37 and wind gusts as high as 23 mph.

Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park

:  Sunny today with a high near 65 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph. Partly cloudy overnight with a low near 33 and wind gusts as high as 21 mph.

Sunny today with a high near 84 and increasing clouds and breezy overnight with a low near 48 and wind gusts as high as 28 mph.

:  Sunny and breezy today with a high near 79 and wind gusts as high as 26 mph. Increasing clouds and breezy overnight with a chance of rain, a low near 45 and wind gusts as high as 43 mph.

  Sunny today with a high near 79 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph. Mostly cloudy and windy overnight with a chance of rain, a low near 47 and wind gusts as high as 39 mph.

  Sunny and breezy today with a high near 75 and wind gusts as high as 21 mph. Breezy, rain likely overnight with a low near 45 and wind gusts as high as 26 mph.

  Sunny today with a high near 75 and rain overnight with a low near 42.

:  Sunny today with a high near 73 and rain near certain overnight with a low near 42.

Sunny today with a high near 78 and wind gusts as high as 21 mph. Increasing clouds overnight with rain likely after midnight, a low near 42 and wind gusts as high as 28 mph.

  Sunny today with a high near 79 and wind gusts as high as 17 mph. Partly cloudy overnight with a low near 48 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph.

:  Sunny today with a high near 80 and wind gusts as high as 17 mph. Increasing clouds overnight with a chance of rain after midnight, a low near 45 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph.

  Red flag fire warning until 8 p.m. tonight. Sunny, hot and breezy today with a high near 91 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph. Mostly clear overnight with a low near 52 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph.

  Red flag fire warning until 8 p.m. tonight. Sunny today with a high near 82 and mostly clear overnight with a low near 44 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph.

  Sunny today with a high near 82 and increasing clouds and breezy overnight with a slight chance of rain after 5 a.m., a low near 44 and wind gusts as high as 28 mph.

  Red flag fire warning until 8 p.m. tonight. Sunny and breezy today with a high near 85 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph. Mostly clear and breezy overnight with a low near 49 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph.

  Sunny and breezy today with a high near 78 and wind gusts as high as 40 mph. Mostly clear and breezy overnight with a low near 45 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph.

  Sunny and breezy today with a high near 80 and wind gusts as high as 40 mph. Mostly clear and breezy overnight with a low near 42 and wind gusts as high as 35 mph.

  Sunny and breezy today with a high near 77 and wind gusts as high as 40 mph. Mostly clear and breezy overnight with a low near 46 and wind gusts as high as 35 mph.

  Sunny and breezy today with a high near 80 and wind gusts as high as 35 mph. Mostly clear and breezy overnight with a low near 44 and wind gusts as high as 35 mph.

  Sunny and breezy today with a high near 77 and wind gusts as high as 40 mph. Mostly clear and breezy overnight with a low near 44 and wind gusts as high as 40 mph.

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<title>Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Friday, June 12, 2026 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Friday, June 12, 2026

Mac Watson

Daily Video News

It’s time to take a look at what’s happening around Wyoming for Friday, June 12th.  I’m Mac Watson

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A Denver man was found dead near a capsized kayak on Yellowstone Lake, park officials announced Thursday. Cowboy State Daily’s Kolby Fedore reports that a former park ranger, who patrolled the lake, says certain factors make the lake dangerous year round.

“Former Yellowstone park ranger Tara Ross said that what makes this lake extremely dangerous is very cold temperatures and wild winds. Ross said the water hovers between 40 and 50 degrees, even in the summertime, so if someone does go in the water, and they're unable to self-rescue, as in get back into the kayak and out of the water. They may only have 10 minutes, generously up to 20 minutes, before rescuers will be recovering a body. Park officials say that the man recovered was from Denver, and he was 41 years old.”

According to Yellowstone National Park officials, occupants of another vessel on the lake discovered the body of Brandon Rhea on Monday floating near Rock Point on the lake's northwest shore near Bridge Bay. 

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Wyoming’s state-level property tax board told counties on Thursday that a 4% cap on yearly increases in residential property taxes is unconstitutional. Cowboy State Daily’s Clair McFarland reports it will also refuse to certify this year's property tax assessment figures if the cap remains.

“So, they're saying, ‘Whoa, we've got homes in sluggish market areas that are being taxed way less of a rate than homes that look exactly the same that are in faster growing areas.’ And so, according to the board, this violates the women constitutions call for equal and uniform taxation, and so they're saying, ‘Hey, if you county assessors keep allowing this 4% cap, we're gonna not certify the tax values this year,’ which would mean you couldn't collect on property taxes. Dixie Huxtable, who's the Converse County Assessor, and speaks out for the Assessors Association often said, ‘I don't think anyone's getting a tax holiday. We're gonna figure out what our legal options here are and decide what to do.’”

The board’s two-person majority — Chair Jayne Mockler and Vice-Chair Marty Hardscog — wrote in the Thursday report that the 4% increase cap for residential property taxes has arbitrary impacts across the state. 

The Clinton-era Roadless Rule on U.S. Forest Service lands will be erased if Wyoming Republicans U.S. Sen. John Barrasso and Rep. Harriet Hageman get their way. Cowboy State Daily’s Mark Heinz reports Rep. Harriet Hageman says, “I have been fighting the Roadless Rule since the day it was handed down.”

“The Trump administration has already been pushing for this. Now Congress has stepped in. Senator Mike Lee of Utah added an amendment to a wildfire prevention bill that Senator Barrasso was already sponsoring, and that that amendment would just nullify the roadless rule, like Trump is trying to rescind it now. Congress is essentially trying to nullify it, and Congresswoman Hagman has a mirror bill to nullify it coming out of the House, so, so basically the roadless rule is facing a double threat from both the the the administration and the legislative branch, which, if you're if you're against it and you want to see it gone, that's good news. If you want to see it preserved, that's bad news.”

The Roadless Rule has forbidden new road construction on national forests across Wyoming’s high country. It also similarly prevented new road construction on 45 million acres of national forest lands across the West, and up to 60 million acres nationwide.

A letter to Republican candidates for Park County partisan offices, has a warning for candidates. Cowboy State Daily’s Clair McFarland reports that the letter states that if a potential candidate won’t commit to back at least 80% of the state GOP platform, they won’t receive an endorsement or support from the party.

“People have been saying that the party is developing a purity test. The proponents of this questionnaire, which basically asks if you agree with each party platform playing, the proponents are saying this is not a purity test, you know, organizations have standards, and the opponents are saying it absolutely is a purity test, and it's just the organization trying to perpetuate its ideals onto the next leaders of it. But, like, Sandy Newsom said, they can't take me off the ballot, she's running for precinct committee woman there in the Park County Republican Party, just like they can't take us off the ballot, so the people in my precinct are going to be the judge of how Republican I am.”

The state GOP passed a set of new bylaws in April which requires county and state committee iterations of the party to vet candidates for office on their commitment to the platform and “demonstrated loyalty to the Party’s principles.”

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I’ll have more news from Cowboy State Daily right after this.

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The first job for Union Pacific’s new Trump-themed locomotive No. 4547 took it through Wyoming carrying the Artemis III rocket. Cowboy State Daily’s Renee Jean reports that nobody except railroad watchers noticed. 

“Stan Blake, who is a retired railroad guy, tells me what they're doing there is they're buffering the rail, the rocket pieces by separating them with a car that will have been loaded with inert material. So, those weren't empty, they were loaded with something, and then they are there to kind of buffer in between each of those rocket cars, and the rings around the first car, those are the size of the rocket cars, the tanks, you know, the pieces of the rocket, so that you know it's clear that I guess to make sure that the clearances are all in order. Wyoming is a particularly good state for crossing because there's plenty of Wyoming with the wide open spaces.”

In late 2027, four members of the crew for Artemis III will launch aboard an Orion spacecraft. It's a demonstration flight in a low Earth orbit that will test rendezvous and docking operations between Orion and test versions of the Human Landing System being developed by Blue Origin and SpaceX.

Public backlash against a reported kill order may have saved a bison that killed a woman in Custer State Park last month. Cowboy State Daily’s Kate Meadows reports that advocates for the Bison say he was acting within his wild nature on his home turf when he killed the 70-year-old Canadian tourist.

“The Bison who killed a 70 year old woman last month got a stay of execution this week after public backlash. People were acting on rumors that the state had planned to put this bison down or euthanize it because of the of the bison's actions with this woman and a lot of people were saying, you know, this this animal, he's it's wild and it acted, you know, appropriately given that it was really roaming on its own turf.  But the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Game Fish and Parks confirmed that they are taking custody of this bison and that the bison will live out the rest of his days on the Rosebud Reservation, which is outside of Custer State Park.”

The South Dakota Governor’s Office did not confirm whether a kill order had been placed on the bison, nor did the South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks Department.

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Crusoe, a founding partner in the huge 2.7-gigawatt Project Jade data center near Cheyenne, quietly pulled out months ago. Cowboy State Daily’s Renee Jean reports that hasn’t slowed the project, which is going “full steam ahead,” according to  remaining partner Tallgrass Energy.

“Project Jade never missed a beat, they didn't pause for a minute, they just kept right on going. They're now working directly with the data center client, which it hasn't been officially announced yet, and so there's been no pause, there's no lost time, they're still on track for what they're planning to do there, and you know it's a massive, massive project. 2.7 gigawatts, that's almost three times the energy that Wyoming, as a state, uses.”

Crusoe, the company that was constructing the buildings for the massive data center, packed up its stuff and left. The exit happened quickly and quietly, without the fanfare of press releases and company statements that had preceded the project.

Canada’s favorite grizzly, called The Boss, has lived a storied life, brawling with other males and surviving getting hit by a train. Cowboy State Daily’s Mark Heinz reports that his latest stunt was removing an electronic tracking collar that wildlife agents had just put on him.

“We've reported previously on that huge grizzly bear, 700 pound grizzly bear that lives up in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. They call him ‘The Boss.’ His latest antic is they collared him on May 13th, and he ditched that collar within a week, and I talked to a photographer that follows the boss very closely, and said, ‘Yeah, he did that in true boss fashion. That sounds like that bear.’”

The Boss is formally known to researchers as Grizzly 122. His chief rival in Banff is Grizzly 136, called Split Lip.

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<title>Cowboy State Daily Video Newscast: Friday, June 12, 2026 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Friday's headlines include:
* Kayaker Dead In Lake Yellowstone
* Custer Bison Escapes Death Penalty
* Wyo Tax Board Says Cap Is Unconstitutional

Cowboy State Daily Video Newscast: Friday, June 12, 2026

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Clair McFarland

Government & Politics

Politics

counties on Thursday that a 4% cap on yearly increases in residential property taxes is unconstitutional, and the counties shouldn’t let taxpayers have that exemption.

The State Equalization Board will refuse to certify this year’s property tax assessment figures if counties keep that cap on them, the report says.

It also disproportionately insulates high-end homes, and disfavors homeowners in more sluggish market areas, the report asserts.

But the report’s main point, and conclusion from the past two years’ tax data, is that the 4% cap violates the Wyoming Constitution’s call for equal and uniform property taxes within each class of property.

The board hasn’t yet issued an order requiring Wyoming’s county assessors to rework their pending tax bills without the cap.

But it expects to do so in the coming weeks after working with counties, Mockler told Cowboy State Daily in a Thursday phone interview.

“We issued this report today that says if that cap doesn’t come off, Marty and I can’t vote to certify residential property taxes. Because they’re not uniform,” said Mockler. “It’ll be followed with an order ... (and) our goal is ultimately to remove the cap.”  

Mockler noted that the board isn’t targeting the other, narrower exemptions with this report — like the 25% property tax cut passed in 2025 or the long-term homeowner exemption.

More than half of the state’s residential property tax values fall under the 4% increase cap, the report says.

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This kind of push from the state board is unprecedented, Converse County Assessor Dixie Huxtable told Cowboy State Daily on Thursday.

But Wyomingites shouldn’t expect a tax-free year over the maneuver, she said.

“Everyone’s in agreement there will be residential property taxes for 2026,” she said. “This … is just a step in the process of getting different values the board feels is appropriate.”

The pending mandate leaves Wyoming counties somewhere between following the 4% cap requirement in state law and following another state law that tells assessors to obey the state board, she said.  

“You’re asking us to go against the law? Under the law we have to apply the 4% cap and you’re saying we can’t,” she reflected from the report.

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She said she was digesting the report Thursday afternoon, and had just been to a phone meeting with the board officials, assessors, and county attorneys.

Two days earlier on Tuesday, Huxtable had just urged the Legislature’s Joint Revenue Committee to approach more changes to the state’s property tax law with caution, because assessors are always trying to keep up with the many changes lawmakers have brought in recent years.

Assessors are at the mercy of state law and are working hard to follow it, she’d said.  

Reflecting on the board’s Thursday report, Huxtable told Cowboy State Daily that assessors are now trying to gain clarification on what to do in the coming weeks.

“We’re on standby,” she said, adding that from her meeting with the board, her impression is, “They’d be tickled pink to go to court” on this issue.

Wyoming Attorney General Keith Kautz said Thursday that he doesn’t know of any litigation on this currently, “but if there is a challenge, we will support what the Legislature did.”

Rep. Barry Crago, R-Buffalo, who has since become a state senator, was the sponsor on the main bill the board’s Thursday report derides as unconstitutional.

Crago did not return a Thursday afternoon voicemail request for comment by publication.

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The board’s report points to inconsistencies across the Wyoming property tax structure.

People who upgrade their homes by changing the footprint of those homes lose the cap exemption to a reset that year, while people who upgrade only the interior do not, says the report.

It says some homes have had their tax bills so thoroughly capped, they’re paying less than half of the state-mandated property tax rate.

“The caps, by design, generate highly disparate tax consequences for 

It accuses the law of discriminating arbitrarily between different homeowners across Wyoming.

“The demarcation between taxpayers receiving a tax windfall, versus those who do not, serves no rational basis,” the document adds.

Rep. Liz Storer, D-Jackson, told Cowboy State Daily on Thursday that she had voted for the 4% tax cap during the tax hikes of 2024. But she views the law as more of a short-term fix. 

"It was a tourniquet; it was a short-term fix," she said. "Butif you leave the tourniquet on, you damage the body." 

Storer's home region of Teton County accounts for huge property tax revenues in Wyoming. She has tried over the years to get lawmakers to stop applying property tax breaks to people's secondary homes. 

Of the $860.2 million in exemptions the 4% cap is expected to cause this year, Teton County accounts for $507.9 million, says a Department of Revenue memo Storer sent to Cowboy State Daily. 

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The board warned lawmakers before the 4% cap bill’s passage that board members believed it’s unconstitutional.

 “the die was cast,” says the report.

The board examined the residential assessment values and looked for inverted valuations, that is where higher-valued properties were assessed at lower taxable values than other, similarly situated properties.

The board during the 2025 tax calculation process had just two members, Mockler and Hardscog. They voted that year to certify the tax values, but said that those values were probably invalid. Still, they wanted to gather one more year of data to be sure, the report says.

They also planned to release a Nov. 13, 2025, order requiring assessors to stop giving the exemption.

Gov. Mark Gordon’s office asked the board not to issue that order, the report says.

In November and early December, the governor’s office and Wyoming Attorney General’s Office met with Hardscog and Mockler to talk about filing an action asking a court to judge the issue.

The governor’s office and AG’s office agreed the state board should file that court action, the report says.

The litigation was slated to be filed Jan. 20. Gordon’s office asked for multiple delays, at first to communicate the lawsuit with legislative leaders. 

When Gordon’s office asked for another delay two days later, Hardscog and Mockler said they wouldn’t certify the property tax values after the June tax calculation process, “without a working resolution of their constitutional concerns,” says the report.

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<title>Wyoming Tax Board Says 4% Cap On Property Tax Is Unconstitutional, Won't Accept It | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Wyoming’s state-level property tax board told counties on Thursday that a 4% cap on yearly increases in residential property taxes is unconstitutional and it will refuse to certify this year's property tax assessment figures if the cap remains.

Wyoming Tax Board Says 4% Cap On Property Tax Is Unconstitutional, Won't Accept It

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Mark Heinz

Outdoors

Wildlife

Canada’s favorite bear, a 700-pound behemoth called 

, has lived a storied life, brawling with other males and surviving getting hit by a train.

His latest stunt was ditching an electronic tracking collar that wildlife agents had just put on him, and nobody’s seen him for a while.

“In true Boss fashion, he somehow got that collar off,” Canadian wildlife photographer Jason Leo Bantle told Cowboy State Daily.

Bantle lives near Banff National Park in Alberta, which The Boss calls home.

He’s one of The Boss bear's biggest fans and has taken countless photographs of the huge bear, which is thought to be about 29 years old.

He hasn’t seen The Boss yet this spring/summer, but he’s not worried. Bantle figures that after ditching his tracking collar, The Boss wandered off to find a feast, or maybe some mates.

“He cruises up and down the valley, looking for girlfriends,” Bantle said.

The Boss is thought to have fathered half of the bears in Banff.

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The Boss was among three male grizzlies captured and outfitted with collars by wildlife agents on May 13, according to reports.

Within a week, The Boss had slipped out of or ripped off his collar, and his whereabouts remain a mystery.

The Boss has been collared before, but this time around, apparently, “he had enough of humans playing with him," Bantle said.

He added that the last time he saw and photographed The Boss was last fall, before Banff’s bears went into hibernation.

The bear’s fans think it’s hysterical that he ditched his collar, Bantle said.

“People are really laughing about it up here,” he said.

The Boss has earned a new nickname, “Houdini,” after the legendary escape artist Harry Houdini, Bantle said.

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The Boss is formally known to researchers as Grizzly 122. His chief rival in Banff is Grizzly 136, called Split Lip.

One side of Grizzly 136’s mouth is ripped into what looks like a permanent snarl, which earned him the name Split Lip. He suffered the wound in a fight with The Boss.

A rail line runs through Banff, and at least five grizzlies have been struck and killed by trains.

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According to reports, The Boss is thought to have been struck by a train but escaped serious injury in the mid-2010s.

He had another close call with a train in 2024.

The collar-ditching incident has only added to the legendary status of The Boss, Bantle said.

“There’s nothing that this guy doesn’t do, he really has a unique life,” he said.  

“If only we could actually sit down with this grandfather (bear) and hear his stories,” Bantle added.

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Bantle figures that The Boss is off somewhere, making the most of being off pesky biologists’ radar.

“We have an incredible dandelion crop right now. I think he just found a field of those, far away from humans, and he’s just feasting on dandelions,” he said.

It’s certainly not unheard of for grizzlies to lose their tracking collars, Canadian bear safety expert Kim Titchener told Cowboy State Daily.

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“Big males have an incredible amount of fat on their necks in the spring, and you have to be careful not to fit the collars too tightly,” Titchener said.

Although it must be frustrating for biologists to lose track of The Boss, Titchener said she can’t really blame him for getting rid of the tracking device.

“It makes sense. Who would want to walk around with a collar on their neck?” she said.

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<title>Canada’s Favorite 700-Pound Grizzly ‘The Boss’ Rips Off Tracking Collar | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Canada’s favorite grizzly, a 700-pound monster called The Boss, has lived a storied life, brawling with other males and surviving getting hit by a train. His latest stunt was removing an electronic tracking collar that wildlife agents had just put on him.

Canada’s Favorite 700-Pound Grizzly ‘The Boss’ Rips Off Tracking Collar

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Renée Jean

Wyoming Life

Around Wyoming

Cheyenne railfan and sculptor Carey Moose Hosterman wasn’t planning to see a rocket train. 

He was just driving home from Home Depot with a bag of sculpting tools last week when a strange-looking locomotive rolled out of Cheyenne’s historic depot onto the main line.

He wasn’t sure at the time exactly what he was seeing, but he didn’t hesitate to hit his blinker and pull over to watch it go by.

“I was like, ‘Wow, that is a really cool-looking car or engine on that train there,’” he told Cowboy State Daily. “It’s got an American flag on it and it looks really different.”

Only later would he learn that No. 4547 was passing through Wyoming on June 2 on its first mission hauling the final solid rocket booster segments for NASA’s Artemis III rocket to Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

In late 2027, four members of the crew for Artemis III will launch aboard an Orion spacecraft. 

It's a demonstration flight in a low Earth orbit that will test rendezvous and docking operations between Orion and test versions of the Human Landing System being developed by Blue Origin and SpaceX.

The Artemis IV will be the first crewed lunar landing mission of the Artemis program, scheduled for 2028.

Hosterman has spent years watching all kinds of trains roll through Cheyenne. 

He’s seen trains with tanks and armor, and wind turbine blades so long they need two flat cars just to make the curves. 

A rocket train, though, was a first, and it was rolling through Cheyenne without fanfare or warning.

The lead engine, he would later learn, was Union Pacific No. 4547, a commemorative locomotive that celebrates President Donald Trump, painted with a fluttering American flag all along its length. 

Behind it was the equally colorful No. 1616, a red locomotive that honors Abraham Lincoln for signing the Pacific Railway Act in 1862.

The first job for Union Pacific’s new Trump-themed locomotive No. 4547 took it through Wyoming carrying the Artemis III rocket. Nobody except railroad watchers noticed. “They were just these weird-looking, covered capsule-looking things,” one said.

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