Tag Archives: Barry Wilmore
Empathy for Donald Pettit
There was an intriguing outpouring of concern worldwide when Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore returned to Earth after 280-something days in space. People were particularly concerned about Williams’s health and how she was doing, as if Wilmore hadn’t been there … Continue reading →
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Tagged Anatoly Zak, Anoo Bhuyan, Barry Wilmore, Donald Pettit, episteme, Indian Space Research Organisation, Jonathan McDowell, NASA, public interest, Soyuz MS-26, Sunita Williams, techne
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Williams’s success is… ours?
A day before NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore were to return onboard a SpaceX crew capsule, Prime Minister Narendra Modi published a letter in which he said he had inquired after her when he met U.S. President Donald … Continue reading →
Posted in Op-eds, Science
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Tagged Barry Wilmore, Bharatiya Janata Party, Donald Trump, Gaganyaan, Jitendra Singh, Jyotiraditya Scindia, NASA, Piyush Goyal, Sakshi Malik, Sunita Williams, Vinesh Phogat
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Let’s allow space missions to be wonderful
Finally some external validation. After months of insisting Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore aren’t “stuck” or “stranded” in the International Space Station, after Boeing Starliner’s first crewed flight test went awry, the two astronauts have themselves repudiated the use of … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barry Wilmore, boeing, crewed spaceflight, Indian Space Research Organisation, International Space Station, Moneycontrol, NASA, science communication, Sunita Williams
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PSA about Business Today
If you get your space news from the website businesstoday.in, this post is for you. Business Today has published several articles over the last few weeks about the Starliner saga with misleading headlines and claims blown far out of proportion. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barry Wilmore, Boeing Starliner, Business Today, disinformation, Don Draper, Lucky Strike, Mad Men, science journalism, Sunita Williams
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A spaceflight narrative unstuck
“First, a clarification: Unlike in Gravity, the 2013 film about two astronauts left adrift after space debris damages their shuttle, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are not stuck in space.” This is the first line of an Indian Express editorial … Continue reading →
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Tagged Arrival, Barry Wilmore, Boeing Starliner, Columbia disaster, Gaganyaan, Indian Space Research Organisation, International Space Station, NASA, space journalism, Sunita Williams
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Suni Williams and Barry Wilmore are not in danger
NASA said earlier this week it will postpone the return of Boeing’s crew capsule Starliner back to ground from the International Space Station (ISS), thus leaving astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams onboard the orbiting platform for (at least) two … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barry Wilmore, Boeing Starliner, Business Today, Cold War, crew capsule, Des Moines Register, Dragon crew capsule, International Space Station, Jatan Mehta, Progress cargo capsule, propulsion module, space race, SpaceX, Starliner crew capsule, Sunita Williams
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