Millionaire lit up hopes for space travels

A recent report said that the third space tourist, American millionaire Gregory Olsen plans to repeat his travel to the space. As the first one cost him so much that he had to sell a company to pay for the price, the second trip, which is even more expensive, would cost him another company.

Olsen’s first trip was made in October 2005, when he visited the International Space Station after paying $20 million for a private seat in the aircraft. He returned to earth a few days later and soon started a new company. He is surely a genius entrepreneur and soon earned a lot of money again with the new company. But it seems that he still misses the scene in the space very much and would like to try another trip.

Even if Olsen really sells his new company to pay for the second trip, he would not be the first repeat space tourist. The first repeat space tourist was American billionaire Charles Simonyi, who made his second space travel in 2009. Well, at the moment space travel is only for millionaires and billionaires, but their success has lit up hopes for the bright future of space travel. Perhaps, years later we could watch NFL games played in space station, and fans would snap up the Vikings jerseys that are worn by players in space. If so, space travel would definitely be funnier than watching a millionaire or billionaire hobbling.

Newly drafted players won’t play key roles with Vikings

The Minnesota Vikings just kept things even more intriguing by trading down picks, drafting unexpected players and skipping over quarterbacks with great potentials. People could not stop asking “Why?” Well, we cannot expect the team to give answers but there are analysts who are trying to give some explanations.

There is no doubt that the Vikings’ first choice in the draft, second-round pick Chris Cook was not beyond much expectation. Although the Vikings had previously signed a veteran cornerback Lito Sheppard already, with both starting cornerback still recovering from injuries, the team was still in need of more cornerbacks in case starters would not be able to wear back their Vikings jerseys in time for new season. So even if the Vikings did not trade their first-round pick down, they could still pick Cook instead of a quarterback like Jimmy Clausen.

What caused most confusion was the addition of running back Toby Gerhart. First of all, the team already has one of the best running backs in the league with Adrian Peterson; and secondly, Gerhart was not the best backs on the board at all when the Vikings were making the choice.

Other choices like the fourth-round pick with defensive end Everson Griffin was simply considered to offer the team some necessary help, but that is all and none of these newly drafted rookies seem likely to have the chance of standing on the starting line. That’s the point- the Vikings did not change much after the draft and most starters would remain at their position and rookies are not expected to replace any of them at least during their rookie season.