Italian research crew celebrating aboard the Unity spaceship
The Galactic "01" spaceflight carried 13 research payloads and three crew members from the Italian Air Force and the National Research Council of Italy. Source: Virgin Galactic

Stuff you need to know, 6.30.23

“Virgin Galactic finally flies its first commercial space tourism mission”
by Christian Davenport, The Washington Post
June 29, 2023

The research flight commissioned by the Italian government, which comes nearly 20 years after Richard Branson started the company, will, if all goes well, be followed in August by VG’s first private adventurer’s flight. In the wake of the implosion of the submersible Titan, VG’s next phase of operations raises additional questions about how such extreme tourism should be regulated.

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“The Cosmos Is Thrumming With Gravitational Waves, Astronomers Find”
by Katrina Miller, The New York Times
June 27, 2023

Radio telescopes around the world, including here in New Mexico, have picked up a telltale hum reverberating across the cosmos, most likely from supermassive black holes merging in the early universe

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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  1. Sierra County gets nothing from continuing to support this facility. The County Commissioners should explore ways to break the indenture agreement and STOP sending Sierra County tax revenues to Santa Fe for financial support of the SpacePork.

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