The scope of work of the internal audit function is to determine whether the. governance, risk management and control processes of the IIA-Australia, as. designed and represented by management, are adequate and functioning in a. manner to provide a reasonable level of confidence:
The AP reports that organizers claimed the ship crossed the official 62-mile-high border of space. Why does space officially begin 62 miles above the Earth? Because 62 miles is about 100 kilometers, and 100 is a nice round number. The creators of the prize settled on 100 kilometers because it's the figure used by the World Air Sports Federation (FAI), the organization that maintains the aeronautical record book and keeps track of achievements in flying.
This part of the cosmos, that we know is out there, I like calling the Universe, since it's a concrete entity that includes all that we can know. Its boundary, the horizon, sits at a distance of about 46 billion light-years from us, the distance traveled by light in 13.7 billion years.