After the long wait, Disneyland has finally opened Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge theme park in Anaheim, California in the United States, and the Initial reviews are positive.
A second theme park will open at Walt Disney World in Kissimmee Florida at the end of August, 2019
Below is the official video:
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NASA will announce the agency’s plans to open the International Space Station to expanded commercial activities at 10 a.m. EDT Friday, June 7, at Nasdaq in New York City. The news conference will be carried live on NASA Television and the agency’s website.
Participants in the news briefing are:
The panelists will discuss NASA’s near-term, five-point plan to enable commercial and marketing activities aboard the International Space Station, with a long-term goal to achieve a robust economy in low-Earth orbit from which NASA can purchase services as one of many customers. The commercialization of low-Earth orbit will enable NASA to focus resources on landing the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024, as the first phase in creating a sustainable lunar presence to prepare for future missions to Mars.
Media who would like to participate in person or by phone must contact Stephanie Schierholz at stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov or 202-358-4997 no later than noon, Thursday, June 6. Questions may be submitted on Twitter during the teleconference using the hashtag #askNASA.
NASA’s plan addresses both the supply-side and demand-side for a new economy, enabling use of government resources for commercial activities, creating the opportunity for private astronaut missions to the space station, enabling commercial destinations in low-Earth orbit, identifying and pursuing activities that foster new and emerging markets, and quantifying NASA’s long-term demand for activities in low-Earth orbit.
The plan is informed by recommendations 12 companies made in recent market studiesto assess the potential growth of a low-Earth orbit economy and how to best stimulate private demand for commercial human spaceflight and other commercial and marketing activities in low-Earth orbit.
Keep up with the latest news about the International Space Station and its research and crew at:
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An 86-year-old man in New Hampshire had to get rabies treatments after settling in to use his iPad last week.
The patient, Roy Syvertson, was bitten by a bat that had somehow wedged itself between his iPad and the iPad case.
“It felt like a little bee sting. And I looked, and the bat was coming out of here, between the cover and the back of the pad,” Syvertson told news outlet WMUR.
He squeezed the iPad cover to get the bat outside. When he went to check on it later, the bat was dead. “Then I knew I might have a problem,” Syvertson said. He became worried he might have been exposed to rabies.
Rabies is deadly if not addressed immediately after one has been exposed to it. Syvertson said he called the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, and the officer he spoke to said, “I would like you to go to the hospital right away. Waste no time.”
He’s lucky he followed the officer’s advice because he had, in fact, been infected with rabies. He was immediately started on rabies treatments at a local hospital. The Fish and Game Department tested the bat that had infected him and found that it had been rabid.
Rabies is spread to humans via an infected animal’s saliva; it’s usually transmitted via a bite.
The animals that are most likely to transmit the virus in the US are coyotes, bats, foxes, skunks, and raccoons, Mayo Clinic says.
“Once a person begins showing signs and symptoms of rabies, the disease is nearly always fatal. For this reason, anyone who may have a risk of contracting rabies should receive rabies vaccines for protection,” Mayo Clinic explains.
Signs of rabies include headache, fever, nausea, agitation, confusion, anxiety, vomiting, excessive salivation, difficulty swallowing, hyperactivity, hallucinations, partial paralysis, insomnia, and fear of water (due to swallowing difficulties).
Via: Yahoo! News
