The space shuttle lands at a slope 6-7 times steeper than commercial airplanes!
Commercial airplanes descend for landing at a "glide slope" of approximately 3 degrees, while the space shuttle glide slope is angled at 20 degrees or more. Four minutes before touching down, the shuttle is still piloted by computer and moving faster than the speed of sound.
Legal experts believe that Paul McCartney (63) could lose up to a quarter of his estimated £825 million ($1.52 billion) fortune after separating from his second wife, Heather Mills McCartney (38).
That would equate to roughly one million British pounds for every week of their short-lived four-year marriage.
On Thursday, the verb "google" was offically added to the dictionary.
Merriam-Webster lists "google" as a transitive verb meaning "to use the Google search engine to obtain information about (as a person) on the World Wide Web." The Oxford English Dictionary also added it as a verb last month. The trademarks Band-Aid, Kleenex, Rollerblade and Xerox have all followed a similar path.