"Well, you rest a little while I smoke, " he said, rising, and then he foolishly went to the forward platform of the car and left the game as it stood.

Private spaceflight took one giant step forward this week when the Tycho Brahe craft lifted off atop the HEAT-1X rocket engine Friday (pictured) from a platform in the Baltic Sea.

The event will provide a global platform for dialogue on how the 2008 recommendations of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health could be taken forward.