DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist

  DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF

                                                                      

                 By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane

WORLD'S 1st LEGAL FLYING CAR

Source:  ALEF Aeronautics

• For the 1st time in history, a flying car - ALEF by California's Alef Aeronautics - has been given permission to fly by the US government
• The eVTOL has received a special Airworthiness Certification from the FAA
• Because of the breakthrough nature of flying cars, the Certification does limit the purpose and locations of Alef flights
• Key details on Alef:

1. Fully electric power system
2. Road range:  200 miles
3. Flying range: 110 miles
4. Operations:  Vertical take-off and landing
5. Carries 1 or 2 people
6. Spherical passenger cabin inside a box wing-byplane frame
7. Significant pre-orders:  440 in Q4 2022
8. Cost:  $300,000

• Pipeline:  Model Z with air range of 200 miles, driving range of 400 miles and at an incredible price of $35,000.

CANCER VACCINES - THE "NEXT BIG THING"

                          Source:  Cancer Vaccine &Molecules

• Within the next 5 years, many cancer specialists believe that there will be breakthrough vaccines against cancer
• The vaccines won't be traditional ones to prevent a disease
• The new vaccines will shrink tumors and stop cancer from coming back
• The treatments under development include vaccines against breast, lung, pancreatic and melanoma cancers
• Among the prestigious institutions developing the vaccines is the National Cancer Institute
• The vaccines work by boosting the immune system to locate & kill the cancer
• Some of them use mRNA that was first used for COVID vaccines
• Many top cancer specialists believe that vaccines are the next big thing in the war against cancer.

VIRGIN GALACTIC ACHIEVES COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS

                                        Source:  Virgin Galactic

• It hasn't been an easy road for innovator Sir Richard Branson, but today his space mission company Virgin Galactic reached commercial operations
• Virgin Galactic is celebrating its 1st commercial space flight with 6 humans on board that puts the space flight company in business
• VSS Unity spacecraft was launched by the VMS Unity spacecraft carrier aircraft at 50,000 feet and flew the crew & passengers to a breathtaking location at the edges of space & then safely back to Earth in about 90 minutes
• Called Galactic 01, the mission included Italian scientists and military, plus a dozen microgravity experiments on the impact of weightlessness on the human heart, liquids, solids & other items
• Italian Air Force pilot Col. Walter Villadei, who served as co-pilot, found the experience "amazing" 
• Next:  August mission with private astronauts and then monthly missions with research organizations, governments and hundreds of space tourists with tickets.

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