Follow RT on The Great Barrier Reef will not join the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) endangered heritage list, after Australia and 11 countries applied pressure on the organization to reconsider. Friday’s decision comes after Australia’s Environmental Minister, Sussan Ley, joined forces with 11 international ambassadors in…
Welcome to the crew: Jeff Bezos invites pioneering female pilot Wally Funk to become oldest person in space
Follow RT on Amazon founder and aerospace entrepreneur Jeff Bezos will take 82-year-old Wally Funk, a female aviator who undertook astronaut training in the 1960s but never flew to space, to join him on his test flight later this month. “No one has waited longer. It’s time,” wrote Bezos in…