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

Now that the Summer Olympics bubble burst, how are you handling the withdrawal effects?  Well, the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics begin in 543 days.  Cortina d'Apezzo is 270 miles from Milan.  Interestingly enough, the following Winter Olympics returns to France in 2030, with some events scheduled for Turin, Italy.  They had no competitors.  What happened to the Orient or the Americas or the Southern Hemisphere?  The very first one was held a century ago, 1924, in France (Chamonix).  The USA has hosted four times, with Salt Lake City the most recently in 2002. What more can be said about the Paris Summer Olympics?  If American women were their own nation, they would have come in third behind the USA and China, even with the loss of Jordan Chiles' bronze medal. Did you know that in the very  final event of these Olympics, the USA women's basketball team beat host France, 67-66, for the gold ? 36-year old Steph Curry is why the USA men's basketball team members have gold