Isn't it nice to see this huge leap within our lifetime? Virgin boss Richard Branson has finally announced the opening of the world's first spaceport, dedicated to send people and payloads into space.
It was six years ago that Virgin Galactic and state officials reached an agreement to build the $209m taxpayer-financed spaceport.Officials said the completion of the terminal and hangar facility marks another major milestone that brings the dream of rocketing tourists into space closer to reality. Still, the question many are asking is when the first ships will launch from Spaceport America.
Indeed, a milestone. It used to take a fortune to take a plane across the ocean but now it can be affordable as ever, and hopefully this will happen to space flights as well.
I doubt this will be a good piece for me to write here, but I'll try my best to understand the whole situation. The foremost thing we know about this news is the Egyptian government has negotiated with the militant group Hamas, by releasing 1,000 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons, in exchange for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who has been imprisoned for 5 years.
But what makes so much of a deal is because they are in exchange of 1,000 Palestine people who've been imprisoned due to their acts against Israel in the past, for just one person. And yet, the Israeli are very joyous of his release. In their culture, they see themselves as a big family, everyone helps each other no matter they are strangers or not. The Shalit family has done a tremendously huge effort to make Israeli aware of their family's son was captured by the militant group, and therefore gaining a lot of support from the people.
Now that over 1,000 prisoners are released, it is disputable if it is politically adequate to let them run free because, you know, they are prisoners. But since Israeli view themselves as a family, no wonder most of them are very supportive even though they could retrieve only one soldier out of many more high profile Israeli imprisonment in other political dispute.
However there are still concerns about Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel's decision, because there are military traditions among other countries and they are not always prepared for the negotiations to the terrorist to swap deals with terrorists. But in the mean time, we will see as the story progress.
D.
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