The launch failure in January this year was the last nail that sealed Virgin Orbit's fate. If nobody shows up to buy the company, this may be the last we hear of it.
russian military s underperformance which includes many friendly fire casualties including shootdowns of russian aircraft by russian air defense, wide scale missile launch failures, and stiffer than expected resistance from the ukrainian people. president biden weighed in on the matter for the first time yesterday, and seemed to downplay the strength of the u.s. intelligence. how badly has vladimir putin been misinformed by advisers. that s an open question. there s a lot of speculation. but he seems to be, i m not saying this with certainty, he seems to be self isolating. and there s some indication that he has fired or put under house arrest of some of his advisers. but i don t want to put too much stock in that at this time. because we don t have that much hard evidence. i m going to ask you again
ukraine. a spokesman for the kremlin said at a press conference yesterday, quote, neither the state department nor the pentagon have real information about what is happening in the kremlin. he also warned, quote, such a complete misunderstanding leads to erroneous and rash decisions that cause very bad consequences. meanwhile, one u.s. official telling nbc news the united states government has intelligence indicating some senior-russian officials likely disagreed with with putin s decision to invade ukraine. we know that s true. the official said, quote, their disillusionment is probably amplified by the russian military s underperformance, which includes many friendly-fire casualties including shootdowns of russian aircraft by russian air defense, wide-scale missile launch failures, and stiffer than expected resistance from the ukrainian people. inside ukraine, russian forces continue to launch attacks around the capital city of kyiv, despite saying it planned to pull back from the ar
influenced by space pioneers like john glenn who, when he took that flight on the friendship 7, really he didn t know whether or not he was going to come brack safely or not. it was on shear grit and courage in terms of making sure he was going to be prepared for that flight. he was very low key about it, but very determined to serve his country in this way. could you talk more about that, tom. john glenn went into his mercury career with his eyes wide open. he and the other astronauts experienced launch failures in cape canaveral. they saw atlas rockets that were going to carry them into space blow up before their eyes. by the time john stepped on board the friendship 7 craft, the failure rate for the atlas was about 40%. only six out of ten rockets were flying successfully. these astronauts were going to get into a rocket with that track record and put the u.s. back in the space race. he went into his flight with his