Tag Archives: Boeing Starliner

PSA about Business Today

Posted on August 26, 2024 by

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 →

Posted in Analysis, Scicomm | Tagged Barry Wilmore, Boeing Starliner, Business Today, disinformation, Don Draper, Lucky Strike, Mad Men, science journalism, Sunita Williams | Comments Off

A spaceflight narrative unstuck

Posted on August 11, 2024 by

“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 →

Posted in Analysis, Scicomm | Tagged Arrival, Barry Wilmore, Boeing Starliner, Columbia disaster, Gaganyaan, Indian Space Research Organisation, International Space Station, NASA, space journalism, Sunita Williams | Comments Off

Suni Williams and Barry Wilmore are not in danger

Posted on June 26, 2024 by

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 →

Posted in Analysis, Scicomm | 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 | Comments Off

A nationalism of Sunita Williams

Posted on June 7, 2024 by

The headlines in Indian mainstream media over the course of June 6, after Boeing (finally) launched its Starliner capsule on its first crewed test flight betray a persistent inability to let go of the little yet also false pride that … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis | Tagged Bharatiya Janata Party, Boeing Starliner, Lok Sabha elections, Sunita Williams, women in space | 1 Comment