Don’t worry, jazz fans. Your favorite all-star guardian is in a good mood.
In the final seconds of Utah’s 117-111 win over the Los Angeles Clippers Thursday night, Donovan Mitchell ran up to Joe Ingles for control of the ball. Before he reached Ingles, however, Mitchell collided with Paul George and quickly reached down to his right leg.
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Mitchell’s teammates helped him off the pitch, but Mitchell didn’t seem comfortable putting weight on that leg immediately. ESPN part-time reporter Cassidy Hubbarth tweeted that Mitchell later had a “visible limp” when he went to the locker room.
As ESPN analyst Doris Burke noted on the show, the obvious concern was that Mitchell had somehow injured his right ankle. The 24-year-old missed the last 16 regular season games of Jazz and Game 1 of the team’s first-round series against the Grizzlies while recovering from a sprained right ankle.
During his post-game media availability, Mitchell tried to allay any concerns about his health.
“I was hit and it hurt. But now I’m fine, ”said Mitchell. “I got in here. If you want me to sprint for you, I can. I’m fine. I think the biggest thing is just you know it happens. I’m grateful it wasn’t bad and get ready for game 3. “
This is good news for jazz because they can’t afford to lose Mitchell. They are now 6-0 in the postseason if Mitchell is available; their only playoff loss came in that first series opener he missed. He scored 37 points in Game 2, making it the first Utah player to score at least 35 points in consecutive playoff games since Karl Malone did it in 1988, according to ESPN Stats and Info.
If Mitchell is still in pain from the hit, he won’t have much recovery time. Utah will head to Los Angeles for a crucial Game 3 on Saturday.
Professor Emeritus of Physics, Princeton University
This speech was delivered at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar on February 19, 2021 in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Hillsdale College is an independent college founded in 1844 by men and women who “are grateful to God for the priceless blessings” that come from civil and religious freedom and “believing that the spread of learning for the eternity of these blessings is indispensable ”. It pursues the stated goal of the founders: “All persons who, regardless of nation, skin color or gender, have a literary, scientific, [and] theological education, “which is outstanding among American colleges,” to combine such moral and social instruction as best develop the spirit and improve the hearts of its students. “As a nonsectarian Christian institution, Hillsdale College” endures Commandment and Example “upholds the ancient doctrines and practices of the Christian faith.
By educating young people in the liberal arts, Hillsdale College prepares students to become leaders worthy of that legacy. By promoting the scholarship of her faculty, she helps preserve this legacy for future generations. By publicly defending this legacy, she enlists the help of other friends of free civilization, thereby securing the conditions of her own survival and independence.
In 2016, Russian-American billionaire Yuri Milner founded Breakthrough Initiatives, a nonprofit dedicated to researching some of the universe’s most enduring mysteries. The most important of their scientific endeavors is Breakthrough Starshot, a proof-of-concept prototype that combines a light sail, nano-vehicle, and directional energy propulsion (also known as a laser) to create one spacecraft capable of driving the next Stern (Alpha Centauri) in our lifetime.
This, of course, poses all sorts of engineering and engineering challenges, not least the amount of energy needed to accelerate the spacecraft to relativistic speeds (a fraction of the speed of light). Fortunately, scientists at the Australian National University (ANU) recently came up with a design for a directional energy array made up of millions of individual lasers positioned above the earth’s surface.
The paper describing their research (conducted with support from Breakthrough Initiatives) was recently published in the Journal of the Optical Society of America B. The team was led by Dr. Chathura P. Bandutunga, a research fellow from the ANU Center for Gravitational Astrophysics (CGA) and included members of the ANU’s ARC Center for Engineered Quantum Systems and the Mount Stromlo Observatory.
The plan for Breakthrough Starshot calls for a gram-scale nano-vehicle equipped with tiny sensors, engines, a camera, and a radio antenna. This nano-vehicle would be pulled by a meter-scale light sail measuring 4 x 4 m (13 x 13 ft), accelerated by a 100 gigawatt (GW) laser array. This could enable the space probe to reach speeds of up to 20% of the speed of light (0.2 ° C) and make the journey to Alpha Centauri in just 20 years.
Together, the ANU team combined expertise in many areas of optics and astronomy, from fiber optic sensors and optical phased arrays to astrophysics and gravitational wave instrumentation. For their study, Dr. Bandutunga and her colleagues different ways of creating a laser array that can generate 100 gigawatts (GW) of optical continuous wave power.
In the end, they found that the best option is to rely on 108 ground-based arrays to act together. Like Dr. Bandutunga recently said in an ANU press release
“In order to overcome the huge distances between Alpha Centauri and our own solar system, we have to think outside the box and break new ground for interstellar space travel. Along the way, the sail will fly through the vacuum of space for 20 years before reaching its destination. During its flyby of Alpha Centauri, it will take pictures and scientific measurements, which it will send back to Earth. ”
Artist’s impression of the laser array used to accelerate starshot. Credit: breakthrough initiatives
Dr. Robert Ward, a co-author of the paper, is also the founding scientist who developed the ANU node for this project. According to Ward, a 100 GW array is not an easy task as it is about 100 times the capacity of the largest batteries in the world today. “To do this, we estimate the number of lasers needed to be around 100 million,” he said. In addition, these lasers would have to act as a single one, focusing on a sail of light no more than 16 m2 (139 ft2) in size.
Another big challenge is measuring the drift of each laser. “We use a random digital signal to scramble the measurements from each laser and decode each one individually in the digital signal processing,” said Dr. Sibley from the ARC Center for Engineered Quantum Systems. “In this way, we can only find the dimensions that we need from a huge mess of information. We can then break the problem up into small arrays and link them together in sections. ”
Then there was the challenge of atmospheric distortion, which is inevitable when relying on ground-based arrays. For this reason, the ANU design requires the use of a beacon satellite (i.e., a guide laser) that is stationed in orbit around the earth and acts as a guide, bringing the entire laser assembly together. As Professor Michael Ireland of the ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (another co-author) explained:
“If this is not corrected, the atmosphere will distort the exiting laser beam and cause it to be deflected from its intended target. Our proposal uses a laser guide star. This is a small satellite with a laser that illuminates the array from orbit. While the laser guide star crosses the atmosphere on its way back to earth, it measures the changes caused by the atmosphere. We have developed the algorithm that enables us to use this information to pre-correct the outgoing light from the array. ”
Star Shot approaches Alpha Centauri and shows how relativistic velocities cause background stars to be redshifted. Credit: breakthrough initiatives
Of course, there is still a lot to be done, which Dr. Bandutunga compared the Starshot himself with the later voyage. The next step is to test some of the basic elements of the mission architecture in a controlled laboratory environment. According to Dr. Bandutunga developed an algorithm to correct atmospheric distortions and investigated various ways of combining small arrays into larger arrays.
“The ANU’s work was to see if this idea would work at all,” he said. “The aim was to find out-of-the-box solutions, to simulate them and to determine whether they are physically possible. Although this proposal was made by the ANU team, international work continues to find unique and clever solutions to other parts of the problem. It will be exciting to bring these solutions together to bring the project to life. ”
The science behind Breakthrough Starshot has advanced significantly over the past five years. Although no target date for the start of the maiden voyage has been announced, Yuri Milner has suggested in the past that a mission could be completed by 2036. This means that humanity could get its first glimpse of a neighboring star system in the 2060s. This could include the first close look at a potentially habitable exoplanet.
RENTON, Wash. — As frustrated as Russell Wilson was after last season, the Seattle Seahawks quarterback never wanted to play anywhere else.
He made that point clear Thursday as he spoke with reporters for the first time since February, when his public criticisms of the organization led to speculation about a possible trade.
“Obviously I love Seattle, I love playing here,” Wilson said. “I’ve had a great career here so far. I’ve always wanted to play here for my full career obviously. I think there was some unfortunate frustrations after the season. Obviously you want to win it all and do it all and do everything you can. I think everybody on our team does. You want to win it, and I think unfortunately I think it got a little blown out of proportion a little bit.”
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Two days after the Super Bowl, Wilson voiced his frustrations about his pass protection and perceived lack of say in personnel moves relative to other top quarterbacks. He said Thursday that he didn’t intend his comments as criticism of his offensive line and that he didn’t need to have any conversations with those players in order to clear the air.
The drama reached its peak when Wilson’s agent, Mark Rodgers, told ESPN’s Adam Schefter that the quarterback would accept a trade to only four teams. Wilson, who has a no-trade clause, said Thursday that was made public because he wanted to set the record straight that he did not request a trade and — with the rumor mill buzzing — to clarify where he would play if Seattle was interested in dealing him.
Wilson said his relationship with coach Pete Carroll is as strong as ever and that the two are on the same page.
“I did not request a trade,” Wilson said. “I’ve always wanted to play here, and the reality is, I think calls were getting thrown around, this and that, and I think that’s just a reality. But I think at the end of the day, the real reality is that I’m here and I’m here to win and I’m here to win it all.”
Some of the 12,000 attendees who flew to Miami for the largest Bitcoin event in history last weekend have started testing positive for Covid.
Bitcoin 2021 attracted crypto enthusiasts from around the world to the Mana Wynwood Convention Center in the arts and entertainment district of Miami. For three days, conference attendees huddled in overcrowded lecture halls, happy and hugging. It was the first major conference since the pandemic began, and many attendees said they were relieved to be among colleagues sharing messages and updates.
There was no mask requirement and no vaccination certificate requirement for participation. Covid was just a topic of conversation in connection with everyone’s excitement about being on the other side of the pandemic.
This is of course until some conference participants said on Twitter that they had tested positive for the corona virus.
For full disclosure, I attended the show after receiving two doses of the Moderna vaccine this spring. Vaccination isn’t a 100% guarantee of immunity, but at the moment I have no symptoms. A lot of my conversations with Uber and Lyft drivers started with a discussion about vaccination together.
It remains to be seen whether the conference will ultimately be billed as a super spreader event.
It is unclear how many people are affected and whether the city of Miami had a contingency plan for such an outcome. The mayor’s office did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
Conference organizers told CNBC that all attendees had received “the latest recommendations from the CDC and the State of Florida,” and told the audience that “those at high risk or not vaccinated are considering should wait until next year. “
On Tuesday, Florida said it would no longer report daily Covid cases and deaths as vaccinations increase and move into the “next phase” of the pandemic. Florida reported an average of eight new cases per 100,000 residents last week, well below its pandemic high of 84 per 100,000, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Alicia Silverstone is back with the viral TikToks.
She joined the platform last week to hilariously recreate a scene from Clueless with the help of her 10 year old son bear and that iconic yellow plaid suit.
Now she’s dropping a bombshell, revealing that all these years we had no idea how to pronounce her name correctly.
The Baby Sitters Club actress responded to the TikTok challenge, “Tell me what your name is, then tell me how people pronounce it wrong.”
Dressed all in black, Alicia said, “My name is Ali-SEE-yuh … Not Alee-Sha.” She shrugged before repeating her name with a smile on her face. She titled the clip “For Information Only” and added a kissing emoji and a winking emoji.
Needless to say, we are totally annoying!
But of course, Clueless fans had the best answers. “NO IS NOT. Your name is CHER!” one wrote with a bunch of hearts.
As promised my analysis of Swiss Re’s claims about the costs of climate change:
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The new Climate Economics Index tests stress tests of how climate change is affecting 48 countries, which make up 90% of the global economy, and assesses their overall climate resistance
Expected impact on global GDP by 2050 under different scenarios compared to a world without climate change: -18% if no mitigation measures are taken (3.2 ° C increase); -14% if some mitigating measures are taken (increase of 2.6 ° C); -11% if further mitigation measures are taken (2 ° C increase); -4% if the Paris Agreement targets are met (below 2 ° C rise)
The economies in Asia would be hardest hit, with China losing nearly 24% of its GDP in a severe scenario, while the world’s largest economy, the US, will lose nearly 10% and Europe will lose nearly 11%.
Climate change poses the greatest long-term threat to the world economy. If mitigating measures are not taken, global temperatures could rise more than 3 ° C and the world economy could contract 18% over the next 30 years. However, the impact can be reduced if decisive action is taken to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, according to the Swiss Re Institute’s new Climate Economics Index. This takes more than what is promised today; The public and private sectors will play a crucial role in accelerating the transition to net zero.
The Swiss Re Institute conducted a stress test to examine how 48 economies would be affected by the persistent effects of climate change under four different temperature rise scenarios. As global warming exacerbates the effects of weather-related natural disasters, it can lead to significant income and productivity losses over time. For example, rising sea levels lead to the loss of land that could otherwise be used productively, and heat stress can lead to crop failures. Emerging countries in equatorial regions would be hardest hit by rising temperatures.
The report offers different warming scenarios, but even the 1.5 degree target would cost 4.2% of GDP, according to Swiss Re:
The impact on poorer countries tends to be higher in percentage terms, but they estimate the cost to the UK would be 2.4%, which is around £ 50 billion a year. At 2.6C this increases to 6.5%. Unsurprisingly, the authors conclude that “no action against climate change is not an option” – which was undoubtedly the purpose of the report!
But where do their numbers come from? First of all, the idea that there could be three degrees warm by 2050 is completely absurd.
Second, it is generally accepted that low warming might actually be beneficial.
The cost calculations are inevitably derived from computer models (!) That try to quantify how the global economy would have looked in a world without climate change. To be honest, that’s silly, because a world without fossil fuels and the economic growth generated by them would be infinitely poorer than it is today. In any case, such studies that try to guess what the world would be like without warming are worthless and just a game for fools and charlatans.
It might have helped if they had used real data to back up their guesses, but they don’t even seem to have done that. They focus on six areas:
Agriculture
There is no question that since the 19th century, warming has brought enormous benefits to agriculture thanks to longer growing seasons and the ability to cultivate areas that were previously too cold.
As for the lazy assumptions that warmer weather will hurt crop yields, it ignores the ability to adapt growing practices such as when to sow, crop choices, and the availability of new, climate-resilient seeds.
There is also an implicit risk of more extreme weather conditions such as droughts, heavy rain and storms. But there is no evidence that this has happened so far.
Human health
The study seems to ignore the fact that cold kills many more people than heat. Meanwhile, experts in the field have long rejected the notion that malaria and dengue are linked to climate change.
The Lancet have long been peddling these falsehoods.
Labor productivity
This is another favorite from The Lancet. But it ignores the fact that working practices have changed beyond recognition. Increasingly, workers no longer have to struggle with bare hands as their ancestors did. Thanks to technology and mechanization, they no longer have to work so long and can therefore take a break at the hottest time of the day. (Has Swiss Re never heard of siestas?)
Sea level
This is the only area where economic losses are likely. But the small rise in sea level over the past century means that further rise will not be noticeable until 2050.
tourism
Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel!
“Experts” have been warning for years that tourists would visit Spain and other countries because it was too hot.
But imagine it gets really too hot there in summer. What would people do? Just stop by at cooler times of the year.
Energy requirements
A warmer climate will undoubtedly result in lower energy needs in the UK and other countries with similar climates. But this does not only apply to the moderate latitudes. Countries like India and China, for example, also need a lot of energy for heating.
The demand for air conditioning may have increased, but the reality is that most people in poorer countries already need them but don’t have access to them.
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To get back to Britain, it is simply absurd to say that with the Little Ice Age climate we would be 50 billion pounds better off, our agriculture would be badly hit, mortality rates higher and energy needs higher.
If the Swiss Re study can’t even do the right thing, why should we trust it?
On his first appearance since Josh Donaldson had some exquisite words about the Yankees ace – and added a thinly veiled accusation that he used sticky substances to grab a ball – Cole Donaldson sat in New York’s 9-6 win on New York City Wednesday down three times.
Cole definitely beat Donaldson: he beat the Twins’ third basemen twice and pulled him back three times in six innings of two-run ball. Cole, under the watchful eye of umpires and baseball Twitter, had a Cole-like performance, giving up only two solo home runs that night and mating with nine strikeouts from the Twins line-up.
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Donaldson’s first K:
84 mph curveball, called a strike
98 mph fastball, foul tipped
87 mph slider, bullet
100 mph fastball, foul ball
86 mph curveball, swinging stroke
Cole followed his attack on Donaldson with an icy stare. Donaldson didn’t notice it on his way back to the shelter.
Cole wasn’t done with Donaldson, however: he followed his first strikeout with an equally dominant second K:
98 mph fastball, ball
90 mph slider, bullet
99 mph fastball, called a strike
100 mph fastball, foul ball
90 mph alternation, swaying beat
And to make matters worse for Donaldson, Cole got Donaldson to fly out on his last appearance that night in Cole’s last inning of work:
Did Cole use any sticky stuff to increase spin rates? May be. And even if he was, he won’t be the first – and won’t be the last – baseball pitcher to turn to alien substances to gain an advantage over hitters. It’s a story as old as baseball days, even if the sport tries to crack down on its use.
Cole ended up having an awkward press conference dodging whether he’d used Spider Tack, the substance everyone is talking about and talked about in baseball right now.
One thing is certain, though: Maybe Donaldson should think twice before mentioning names again.
By now we all know Floyd Mayweather put some work on Logan Paul at Sunday night’s exhibition match in Miami. While some folks expressed disappointment that the boxing champion didn’t knock out the YouTuber, others on social media were speculating Logan actually did tap out at one point. On Monday, a video began circulating on social media allegedly showing Floyd knocking Logan out but holding him up to continue the show.
Well, it looks like Logan caught wind of the rumors because he took to his official Instagram account on Monday to deny the chatter!
“People are trying to spin it and say that he knocked me out and caught me and kept me up to keep the fight going to the eighth round,” Logan said. “Shut the f*** up, just shut the f*** up. Stop trying to discredit what happened last night.”
The video in question shows an exhausted Logan leaning into Floyd after eating a hard hit from the champ. However, Floyd appears to keep Logan propped up in a sort of hugging stance. The video was tweeted out by a sports account called Foot Basket with a caption that led to the buzz.
“”Floyd Mayweather actually knocked out Logan Paul, but held him up during the fight to carry it through 8 rounds,” Foot Basket tweeted.
According to Newsweek, the short video had received over 1.2 million views and more than 16,000 likes at the time of publishing. By Wednesday, the video was disabled on Foot Basket’s account citing a report from the copyright owner.
In Monday’s response, Logan did admit that Floyd landed a few good punches on him. To be exact, the stats showed that Floyd had a 43-28 landing advantage. Additionally, Floyd landed 17 body shots versus Logan’s one body shot.
“Make no mistake, he got a lot of good punches in,” Logan said in his videos. “There’s a couple photos…I got f***** up a couple shots. I didn’t know my face could like make that shape.”
Still, Logan ended the video by continuing to deny the knockout stories.
“Never rocked, never blacked out, never obviously got knocked out,” Logan said. “He didn’t hold me up. He tried to take me out and he couldn’t. It was great.”
However, Foot Basket is seemingly not letting up on Logan. They re-published the video on Wednesday evening. In their caption, they accused him of having the original clip removed.
“@LoganPaul had the original video removed because he’s sensitive and triggered. Here’s the video of the fraud boxer getting KO’d and held up by Floyd again,” Foot Basket wrote.
Roommates, what did you think about the exhibition match?
In recent years, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has watched his commercial space company, Blue Origin, lose ground to the competition. While SpaceX has progressed by leaps and bounds towards realizing regular launches to the Moon and Mars (with the fully-reusable Starship), Blue Origin has been stuck in development hell with its launch vehicles. For this reason, Bezos announced that he would be stepping down as CEO of Amazon to focus on his fledgling space company.
So far, this decision has borne fruit, with the successful suborbital flight test of the New Shepard rocket that took place this past April. Stepping things up a notch, Bezos recently announced that when the first crewed flight of the New Shepard happens later this summer, he will be among the passengers. Scheduled to take place on July 20th, this mission will see Bezos and his younger brother Mark become the first billionaire space tycoon to launch to space.
The announcement came on Monday, June 7th, via Blue Origin and Bezos’ own official Instagram accounts, where Bezos wrote: “Ever since I was five years old, I’ve dreamed of traveling to space. On July 20th, I will take that journey with my brother. The greatest adventure, with my best friend.” The post includes a video in which Bezos goes into detail about his motivations for going himself, and why he invited his brother along.
The video opens with Bezos making a reference to the Overview Effect, a term coined by “space philosopher” Frank White in his 1987 book of the same name. As Bezos aptly put it: “To see the Earth from space, it changes you, it changes your relationship with this planet, with humanity. It’s one Earth.” It is for this reason that Bezos and Blue Origin has been working towards getting the New Shepard ready to conduct suborbital flights for customers.
It’s also the reason why Bezos has decided to go himself and why he invited his brother to come with him, claiming that it would be “more meaningful” that way. “I wasn’t even expecting him to say that he was going to be on the first flight, and when he asked me to go along, I was just awestruck,” his brother says. “What a remarkable opportunity, not just to have this adventure, but to do it with my best friend!”
In addition to being reusable, the New Shepard is a fully autonomous suborbital spacecraft designed to take astronauts and research payloads past the Kármán Line – the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and space. For years, Bezos has spoken of how this vehicle will fulfill his company’s vision of increasing access to space by offering commercial flights – i.e., space tourism.
To date, the New Shepard rocket has conducted 14 uncrewed flights to space, each time flying to an altitude of about 100 km (62 mi) above the surface. The previous flight, which took place on April 14th (SN-15), was a “dress rehearsal” for the first crewed mission, consisting of operations designed to simulate astronaut movements aboard the New Shepard capsule.
As with previous launches, the flight will last about 11 minutes in total from launch to touchdown. After the New Shepard first stage booster reaches the Kármán Line, the capsule will be released and the passengers inside will experience a few minutes of weightlessness and be treated to scenic views of Earth. The capsule will then descend, deploy its parachutes, and make a soft landing.
The other passengers will consist of the Blue Origin astronaut crew, with one seat set aside for whoever wins the online auction that was announced on May 5th to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Alan Shepard‘s historic Freedom 7 flight. In just three days (June 12th), the winner will be announced and all proceeds from the auction will be donated to Blue Origin’s foundation, Club for the Future. As of the writing of this article, the current high bid is $4 million USD.
If all goes as planned, Bezos will be the first billionaire to go to space aboard a launch vehicle of his own development. This would be a fine feather in Bezos’ cap and will certainly be good PR for his company as well. By flying aboard the inaugural flight (with his brother, to boot), Bezos is demonstrating a degree of confidence in his company and the services it intends to offer to the general public.
Despite the immense accomplishments of SpaceX, which Musk founded a year after Bezos launched Blue Origin, its founder has not flown to orbit aboard any of his rockets. This may be something that Musk will choose to do in the coming years, to demonstrate a similar level of confidence in his vehicle design. But for the time being, it looks like Bezos is going to beat Musk to at least one important milestone.
In the past, Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson has said that he would be among the first passengers to fly aboard the SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity when it makes its maiden flight. Branson’s company, which is in direct competition with Blue Origin and SpaceX, was not expected to make its first crewed flight until later this year. However, Bezos’ announcement has caused a shakeup over at Virgin Galactic!
As Douglas Messier, the Managing Editor and founder of Parabolic Arc, reported on Monday (June 7th) – the same day as Bezos’ announcement:
“Virgin Galactic is working on a plan to send Branson on a suborbital flight aboard the VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo rocket plane over the July 4 holiday weekend, according to a source who requested anonymity. The flight is contingent upon obtaining an operator’s license from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).”
This stands in contrast to what Virgin Galactic had previously stated as late as the beginning of June. At that time, according to Eric Berger at Ars Technica, Virgin Galactic’s VP of government affairs (Sirisha Bandla) claimed that the company had three test flights planned. The next would happen in the latter half of 2021 and involve a crew of four Virgin Galactic employees in the passenger cabin.
The flight with company founder Richard Branson would follow, claimed Bandla, followed by a final test flight with the Italian Air Force. But in direct response to Bezos’ plan, Virgin Galactic hoped to move Branson’s flight up to July 4th and beat Bezos to space by a little over two weeks. However, the possibility of competition was downplayed in a statement released by Virgin Galactic on Tuesday, June 8th, in which a company spokesperson said:
“We are in the process of analyzing the data from our successful May 22nd flight. As previously announced, we expect to complete the final test flights this summer through to early fall. At this time, we have not determined the date of our next flight. An objective from the last flight was to collect data to be used for the final two verification reports that are required as part of the current FAA commercial reusable spacecraft operator’s license.”
Those who are old enough to remember are sure to be feeling a sense of nostalgia right now. Is this not like the heady days of Vostok and Project Mercury, when the American and Soviet space programs were in a game of constant one-upmanship? Sure, it’s now a matter of competition between billionaires and their respective space companies, and instead of national prestige, it’s a question of personal pride.
One thing is clear though. There’s a new space race in town, and this time, it’s personal!
