Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams in spacecraft attached to International Space Station as engineers fix problem

Boeing’s public relations crisis is now out of this world: the company’s Starliner spacecraft – and the two astronauts on board – is currently stuck in space.

After what started as an eight-day mission, US astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore have now spent the better part of a month on their space capsule attached to the International Space Station as engineers work out the problems with Starliner.

Proliferation of airport projects is at odds with concentration of air passenger traffic

Last Thursday the governor of Zamfara, one of Nigeria’s poorest states, held a ceremony to mark the start of construction on an international airport in the state capital Gusau.

“The economic benefits and multiplier effects … are quite enormous,” Dauda Lawal said. “The airport will have a tremendous impact on the ease of doing business and other social interactions [here].”