Rocket man
You might want to skip right past SpaceShipThirteen: Virgin Galactic and Sir Richard Branson rolled out the latest space tourism rocket, An earlier version, designed to carry six passengers and two crewmembers in a suborbital flight to the edge of space. SpaceShipOne was destroyed in a 2014 accident, killing one of its pilots (Page A10).
As much as we dreamed of being an astronaut when we were kids, we think we’ll wait until at least SpaceShipTwenty-Three or Twenty-Four.
That’ll buy a lot of quinoa: Oregon lawmakers have passed a law that creates the highest minimum wage in the nation, $14.75 an hour in metro Portland and $13.50 and $12.50 elsewhere in the state (Page A9).
If this presidential campaign thing doesn’t work out for Bernie Sanders, he could make a successful bid for mayor of Portland.
Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: The final season of “Mythbusters” continues on Discovery tonight with Adam and Jamie trying to determine if gummy bears can be used as rocket fuel (The Clicker, Page C8).
If Sir Richard so much as considers that an option, we’re changing our reservation to SpaceShipFifty-Eight.
—Jon Bauer, Herald staff
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