Calistoga caters to tourists with a main thoroughfare that emphasizes local shops, restaurants, tasting rooms and art galleries over franchise stories. Residents pride themselves on a smalltown vibe, and say Calistoga isn’t posh like much of the rest of Napa Valley.
The condom, possibly a souvenir from a brothel, is decorated with an erotic image of a nun and three clergymen.The phrase “This is my choice” is written along the sheath in French. According to the museum, this is a reference to the Pierre-Auguste Renoir painting “The Judgment of Paris,” which depicts the Trojan prince Paris judging a beauty contest between three goddesses.
The condom is on display until the end of November.No one was checking IDs or for weapons before a party boat cruise that endedthat hurt 11 people in South Carolina over Memorial Day weekend, a lawyer for one of the victims said.
Police have announced a second arrest in the May 25 shooting at a dock in Little River, taking a 16-year-old from North Carolina into custody. He and a 19-year-old man from Illinoiswith attempted murder, Horry County Police said.
Officials said 120 people partied on the boat and were
when the shooting happened. Ten people were wounded by gunfire, mostly on the lower parts of their bodies, and one person was hurt by a falling speaker, authorities said.Takeshi Hakamada, CEO and founder of ispace, considers the latest moonshot “merely a steppingstone,” with its next, much bigger lander launching by 2027 with NASA involvement, and even more to follow.
“We’re not trying to corner the market. We’re trying to build the market,” Jeremy Fix, chief engineer for ispace’s U.S. subsidiary, said at a conference last month. “It’s a huge market, a huge potential.”Fix noted that ispace, like other businesses, does not have “infinite funds” and cannot afford repeated failures. While not divulging the cost of the current mission, company officials said it’s less than the first one which exceeded $100 million.
Two other U.S. companies are aiming for moon landings by year’s end: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Astrobotic Technology. Astrobotic’s first lunar lander missed the moon altogether in 2024 and came crashing back through Earth’s atmosphere.For decades, governments competed to get to the moon. Only five countries have pulled off successful robotic lunar landings: Russia, the U.S., China, India and Japan. Of those, only the U.S. has landed people on the moon: 12 NASA astronauts from 1969 through 1972.