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he Age and Sydney Morning Herald, By Chris Zappone, July 23, 2021This week, Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world and mastermind behind the retail giant Amazon, fulfilled a lifelong ambition and launched into space.
The New Shepard rocket, designed and built by his company, Blue Origin, blasted off from remote west Texas, taking Bezos, his younger brother Mark, Dutch teenager Oliver Daemen and female pioneer of the first space age Mary “Wally” Funk into a 10-minute sub-orbital journey. Bezos’ reusable rocket body returned autonomously to land upright on a launch pad……
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Oliver Daemen, from left, Jeff Bezos, Wally Funk and Bezos’ brother Mark in front of the New Shepard rocket in Texas.
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This week Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world and mastermind behind the retail giant Amazon, fulfilled a lifelong ambition and launched into space.
The New Shepard rocket, designed and built by his company Blue Origin, blasted off from remote West Texas, taking Bezos, his younger brother Mark, Dutch teenager Oliver Daemen and female pioneer of the first space age Mary “Wally” Funk into a 10-minute sub-orbital journey. Bezos’ reusable rocket body returned autonomously to land upright on a launch pad.
Texas abortion ban targets anyone who helps patients get the procedure By Kate Smith Texas Heartbeat bill signed into law
At 26 years old, Poppy Northcutt made history as NASA s first female engineer in Mission Control. She was instrumental in calculating the maneuvers that would bring the astronauts home from the first moonwalk in 1969.
But today, at age 77, Northcutt has a different mission: helping patients in Texas navigate the state s maze of abortion restrictions, some of the strictest in the country. It s work that puts her on a collision course with the state s newly passed abortion law.
On May 13, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law the state s Senate Bill 8 the Texas Heartbeat Act joining more than a dozen other states with similar legislation. Like other so-called heartbeat bans, which are currently being challenged in court, the law prohibits abortions after cardiac activity can be detected in the embryo, something that typi
The grisly promoting of abortion on network television continued on Friday as
CBS This Morning stood in “awe” of an elderly abortion activist who is fighting Texas’s “so-called” heartbeat bill. Talking to Poppy Northcutt, a 77-year-old who volunteers at abortion clinics, reporter Kate Smith marveled that people still oppose abortion: “
Are you surprised that we re having this conversation today about whether or not Roe V. Wade survives?”
The co-hosts could barely contain their disdain for Texas as Gayle King cheered, “I m in awe of Poppy Northcutt, though.” Co-host Tony Dokoupil complained about the particulars, including a provision allowing private citizens to sue violators of the pro-life legislation: “Incredible law. I m a little uncomfortable with empowering private citizens and rewarding them for policing their neighbors and friends and getting 10 grand for it.”