Good morning! Sarah Palin's libel suit against the New York Times is in a retrial, Ark Invest's Cathie Wood thinks Trump's tariffs could lead to trade deals, and Blue Origin's spaceflight had some moving moments among the flash.
- Ready to launch. I’ll admit it, I'm a space skeptic. When I see billionaires spending millions on a suborbital trip to near-space, my first thought is usually (like Olivia Munn) all the other things that money could go toward on Earth. (“People can’t even afford eggs,” Munn said while guest-hosting the Today show last week.) The marketing rollout of Blue Origin’s trip of six women, dubbed the first “all-female spaceflight,” wasn’t quite doing it for me. There was too much talk of lash extensions flying around in zero gravity and putting the “ass” in astronaut—and promises that the flight would inspire people, without much of a rationale for why.
But I was on the ground at Blue Origin’s remote Launch Site One in the West Texas desert yesterday, and watching the newly-minted astronauts return to Earth with tears in their eyes and a new perspective on the world—like them, I was moved.
