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A Nasa astronaut duo marooned on the International Space Station have discovered they may not return to Earth until 2025.
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were only meant to be aboard the ISS for eight days, but have been stuck for over two months, after thruster and helium faults on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft’s inaugural 25-hour outbound journey in June.
Nasa’s working on a rescue plan for the pair using a SpaceX’s Crew-9 craft, but now they’re being told to prepare for a further delay until February.
A Virgin Atlantic radio ad claiming the airline was the first to fly transatlantic on 100 per cent sustainable aviation fuel has been banned by the Advertising Standards Agency for misleading consumers that the propellant was “greener than it really is”.
The airline says it is committed to net zero by 2050 and was using a global industry term “for fossil-alternative aviation fuels”.
In this episode, hear insight on the controversy around this fuel, as well as battery tech developments, with Finlay Asher, from flight industry environmental campaign group Safe Landing.
Plus - gene-editing therapy for blood disorder recommended on NHS, army space radar base in Wales to combat cosmic warfare, researchers make Julius Caesar’s perfume and have amateur archaeologists dug up a 500-year-old compass used by Copernicus?
