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MOJAVE, Calif. AP 鈥?Richard Bransons Virgin Galactic is preparing to take the long-awaited step of trying to fly its tourism rocket ship to the edge of space.Virgin Space Ship Unity was undergoing final checks in preparation for a test flight early Thursday that could t stanley usa ake it far higher than before and a big step closer to turning the dream of commercial space tourism into reality. Its a day that weve been waiting for for a long time, CEO George Whitesides told reporters Wednesday at the Virgin Galactic facilities at Mojave Air and Space Port.Whitesides said VSS Unity would try to fly higher than 50 miles 80 kilometers , which Virgin Galactic considers the boundary of space because it is used by the U.S. Air Force and other U.S. agencies.Thats different than a long-held view that the boundary is at 62 miles 100 kilometers . Whitesides noted that recent research favors the lower altitude.Test pilots Mark Forger Stucky and Rick CJ Sturckow were scheduled to be at the controls.Virgin Galactic officials emphasized that it would be a test flight and there c stanley cup ould be an array of reasons why it could end short of its goal or be aborted altogether. Risk is a valuable part of forward progress and intrinsic i stanley cup uk n risk is sometimes you have good days and sometimes you have bad days, Whitesides said. I think we can authentically say that were obviously hoping for a good day tomorrow but the risk of a not good day is still possible. Reaching the threshold of space would demonstrate Aawb Walgreens, Google affiliate to launch drone delivery test
AP Photo/Eric RisbergMunduruku leader Alessandra stanley romania Korap poses at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, Wednesday, April 19, 2023.AP16:58 JST,ensp;April 24, 2023S脙O PAULO AP 鈥?When Alessandra Korap was born in the mid-1980s, her Indigenous village nestled in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil was a haven of seclusion. But as she grew up, the nearby city of Itaituba, with its bustling streets and commercial activity, crept closer and closer.It w stanley thermoskanne asn ;t just her village feeling the encroachment of non-Indigenous outsiders. Two major federal highways paved the way for tens of thousands of settlers, illegal gold miners and loggers into the region vast Indigenous territories, which cov stanley fr er a forested area roughly the size of Belgium.The influx posed a grave threat to Korap Munduruku people, 14,000-strong and spread throughout the Tapajos River Basin, in Para and Mato Grosso states. Soon illegal mining, hydroelectric dams, a major railway and river ports for soybean exports choked their lands 鈥?lands they were still struggling to have recognized.Korap and other Munduruku women took up the responsibility of defending their people, overturning the traditionally all-male leadership. Organizing in their communities, they orchestrated demonstrations, presented compelling evidence of environmental crime to the Federal Attorney General and Federal Police, and vehemently opposed illicit agreements and incentives offered to the Munduruku by unscrupulous miners, loggers, corpo |
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