Neal
Boudette, July
5, " Benjamin
Maldonado and
his teenage
son were
driving back
from a soccer
tournament on
a California
freeway in
August 2019
when a truck
in front of
them slowed.
Mr. Maldonado
flicked his
turn signal
and moved
right. Within
seconds, his
Ford Explorer
pickup was hit
by a Tesla
Model 3 that
was traveling
about 60 miles
per hour on
Autopilot.
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C. Gohd,
July, 11,
"Early this
morning (July
11),
billionaire
Richard
Branson and
three other
passengers
briefly went
to space for
the first
fully crewed
spaceflight of
Virgin
Galactic's
SpaceShipTwo
spaceplane.
At 8:40 a.m.
local time
(10:40 a.m.
EDT; 1440
GMT), the crew
of Virgin
Galactic's
Unity 22 test
flight mission
took off from
the company's
Spaceport
America
facility in
New Mexico and
flew just
above the
boundary of
space, where
the four
passengers and
two pilots
experienced
about four
minutes of
weightlessness.
It was "the
experience of
a lifetime,"
Branson said
during a live
broadcast of
the flight.
Branson,
designated
"Astronaut
001" for the
Unity 22
mission,
founded the
Virgin Group
of companies
that includes
Virgin
Galactic.
..." Read more Hmmmm... Very impressive from many
points of
view. Watch video. An
Orville & Wilbert moment. Alain