STP206 - Starliner and Misinformation - What's Going on?
One of the big stories of this year has been the first crewed mission of the Boeing Starliner space craft which has now been at the ISS for 2 months, when it was only scheduled to be there for 8 days. We dig a little deeper and also have a conversation about misinformation.
Eric Berger Article:
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/yes-nasa-really-could-bring-starliners-astronauts-back-on-crew-dragon/
Guardian Article:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/aug/04/nasa-boeing-astronauts-not-stranded-story
What’s Caught Our Eye in Spaceflight?
NASA Losing VIPER Rover Defangs the Science from Planned Moon Landings:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-losing-viper-rover-defangs-the-science-from-planned-moon-landings/
National Audit Office report says strategy does not deliver value for money:
https://www.ft.com/content/2a6ea8b5-b61c-4e7b-959e-a6ebeca22fa7
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Emily Carney
A veteran of the United States Navy, Carney became a freelance writer back in 2008 and started a blog called This Space Available, which is now hosted by the National Space Society. In 2022 she became an ambassador for Celestis – the first company to have successfully conducted Memorial Spaceflight Missions and currently works as the Manager of Public Engagement and Social Media at the Space 3.0 Foundation.
In 2011, Carney founded a facebook group Space Hipsters. Originally intended to be a place to share news and insights amongst friends, this community has now grown to close to 50,000 members including astronauts, engineers, scientists, historians and space flight enthusiasts from around the globe.
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Dave Giles
Giles is a singer/songwriter from London, England who has always had a passion for space flight. Since his early years he’s been looking skyward and though he ended up wielding a guitar for a living, space exploration is alway on his mind and one of his most popular songs is about astronaut Gene Cernan, ‘The Last Man On The Moon’.
In 2019 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, Giles visited all of the crewed space vehicles flown by NASA from Freedom 7 to the Space Shuttle Orbiters.
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