A SpaceX Falcon 9, with two NASA astronauts, Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, aboard the Dragon crew capsule, lifted off from Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral Saturday, May 30, 2020, ushering in a new era of spaceflight.
The two Americans are on the SpaceX test flight to the International Space Station. For the first time in nearly a decade, astronauts blasted towards orbit aboard an American rocket from American soil, the first one for a private company.
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COVID-19 cuts number of Florida traffic crashes in half.
Florida traffic accidents have been cut in half due to coronavirus quarantine.
Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles officials and the county’s transportation planning agency announced that the number of traffic crashes in Florida dropped by 50% in April compared to the same time last year.
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New York Auto Show was canceled for 2020 and pushed to spring 2021.
The New York Auto Show, organized by the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association, is typically held in April and draws over 1 million attendants. The event was scheduled to begin April 10 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. After COVID-19 swept into Europe and North America, the organizers delayed it until August but now they are saying they won’t be able to meet that deadline and officially canceled it for 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The next show will take place April 2 to April 11, 2021 and press days will be March 31 and April 1.
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Porsche-designed super-yacht goes on sale.
The futuristic-looking Porsche 135-foot yacht, nicknamed ‘spaceship on the water’, just hit the market.
Studio F. A. Porsche has launched a lavish yacht, Royal Falcon One, a 135-foot catamaran, developed by Singapore-based Royal Falcon Fleet and built by the shipbuilder Kockums AB in Swedish town Nynäshamn. Details of the project were held in secrecy for several years.
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The Jaguar I-Pace racing series, which launched in 2018, will come to an end this year two years after it began and after just two seasons due to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company says it is still “fully committed” to electric racing, including its Formula E-team, but didn’t feel that having its own series made sense. And the company is shutting down the I-Pace eTrophy at the end of the 2019-2020 season after the automaker has reviewed its strategy in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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