Written by The OGs Venice Simplon-Orient‑Express A restaurant on the Venice Simplon-Orient‑Express © Ludovic Balay THE RIDE The VSOE is the fantasy progenitor, five-star sleeper of dreams. The vintage cars, all restored down to the last hand-enamelled panel, date from between 1926 and 1949 — with the notable exception of one very fabulous addition this year: L’Observatoire, a brand-new full-car suite complete with “secret” tearoom and library, designed by […]
NASA selected a crew of four research volunteers to participate in its last simulated mission to Mars in 2024 within a habitat at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Obaid Alsuwaidi, Kristen Magas, Tiffany Snyder, and Anderson Wilder will step into the 650-square-foot HERA (Human Exploration Research Analog) facility on Friday, Nov. 1. Once […]
A jury in a Florida federal court has ruled that 2 Live Crew members and their heirs can take back the master copyrights on their music. However, that might not be the last word in the ongoing legal battle, as lawyers for Lil’ Joe Records, which currently holds the 2 Live Crew copyrights, have filed […]
1 During the afternoon of Friday, October 11, bad news saddened the Yucatecan society which was waiting for the fishermen who got lost after the passage of Hurricane Milton. Firstly, through unofficial sources, it was learned that the ship “Halcón 1” was found overturned near Río Lagartos, without the exact position of the ship being […]
ABC Europe correspondent Kathryn Diss and camera operator Fletcher Yeung have become the subject of a criminal investigation in Russia, where authorities claim they “illegally” crossed the border. On August 31, Diss and Yeung were escorted by a Ukrainian military unit to Sudzha, a Russian town in the Kursk region, which is currently occupied by […]
Jared Isaacman looks out of the Dragon capsule’s hatch SpaceX SpaceX made history today as its private astronauts conducted the first ever civilian spacewalk as part of its Polaris Dawn mission. Two astronauts partially exited a SpaceX Crew Dragon craft, one at a time, as it orbited Earth at a speed of more than 25,000 […]
The four crew members of the Polaris Dawn mission SpaceX SpaceX is getting ready to execute the first ever civilian spacewalk. Until now, every time a human has left their spacecraft to venture into the void of space it has been a government-trained astronaut – but the Polaris Dawn mission, scheduled to launch on 30 […]