Jeff Bezos has upped the ante in the battle of the billionaire bros by handing a seat in the first crewed New Shepard flight to Virgin Galactic customer and member of the Mercury 13, Wally Funk.
The Mercury 13 were a group of American women who successfully underwent the same screening tests as their male counterparts, the Mercury 7. Unlike the male astronauts, the 13 never flew in space and it would take until 1983 and Sally Ride’s flight on STS-7 before an American woman reached orbit.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web NFT fetches $5.4m at auction while rest of us gaze upon source code for $0
The auction of Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s source code for the World Wide Web as a cryptographically backed Non-Fungible Token (NFT) has concluded, with the web daddy pocketing $5,434,500 for something already public.
The outlook continues to look a little bleak for NASA’s veteran Hubble telescope as a former astronaut and a Space Shuttle manager weighed in on repair options and the possibility of a fix.
The clip has received intense scrutiny since the Oakland-based police abolition group Anti Police-Terror Project posted the video to Twitter. KTVU reports that Shelby was reported internally and is being investigated. The practice was also condemned by an Alameda County sheriff’s spokesman.
