Principles of Freedom: Virgin Galactic tests ship that could bring tourists to space

Saturday, April 14, 2018

Virgin Galactic, the aerospace company owned by Richard Branson fired up its VSS Unity spaceship for the first time since a deadly crash in 2014. The company hopes to bring paying tourists to space in the future. http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2018/04/06/virgin-galactic-vss-unity-spaceship-richard-branson.cnnmoney/index.html

Weekly Assignments

Watch Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Watch Inventions of the late 1800s
Watch Inventions that shook the world 1900s
Watch Top 10 innovations of the decade 2000-2009
Watch Free Market Economics: Uber, Airbnb, and Feastly vs. government
Watch Is the gig economy working?
Post: What types of economies enable the most inventions?What would make the gig economy somewhere you would like to work? How is the gig economy better than big business? What challenges concern you about long term living in the gig economy?
Jordan A., Ben, Caden, Isaac: Prepare an innovation or invention - anything from a new service/product to a test on how things are done now Think: it would be so cool if someone would come up with something that… It does not need to be a money maker, just invent something.