Tag Archives: Jatan Mehta

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

To the moon – or the stock market?

Posted on March 6, 2024 by

Now this is quite upsetting. I learn from Jatan Mehta’s Moon Monday #166 that Intuitive Machines – the maker of the Odysseus spacecraft that landed on the moon on February 22 – may have lied about the circumstances of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Op-eds, Science | Tagged 166, Commercial Lunar Payload Services, Intuitive Machines, Jatan Mehta, lunar landing, Moon Monday, NASA, NASA LiDAR, public communication | Comments Off