For the past couple of days I've been keeping you up to date on our two stranded NASA astronauts on the International Space Station.    Today, NASA shared one more scary bit of news : Their assessment is that if Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were to soon return on the semi-crippled Starliner spacecraft, the odds of not making it back alive would only be 1 in 270. Sure, if a horse had those same odds, it would almost never win. However, two human lives are worth a lot more than a losing horse. Consider this: According to a 2017   Harvard University   study, the odds that your plane will crash are one in 1.2 million, and the odds of dying from a crash are one in 11 million. Your chances of dying in a car accident, meanwhile, are one in 5,000 . In other words, you would have a 40,740 times better chance on a successful commercial flight than what is facing those astronauts. Another study found that more than 95% of aircraft occupants survived the crash. Two other ways to look at the

President Joe Biden finally did what he should have before the primaries.  He dropped out of the race for the  presidency, and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris .  I think Michelle Obama has a better chance against Donald Trump, but Harris deserves this chance.  Biden will remain president until his term ends on 20January2025.  Republicans reacted that this deficient human should now resign, leaving House Speaker Mike Johnson next in the line of succession.  Just maybe this is the beginning of what the Democrats needed, a miracle, to not get blown out by Trump and other Republican candidates on November 5. Kamala Harris will be the first Black/Asian woman to run at the top of any major ticket.  She is 59 years old. Harris was born in Oakland, California in 1964. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, came from India as a 19-year old graduate student in 1958, earning a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley  in nutrition and endocrinology in 1964. Her father, Donald Harris, is of Af