This isn't 'lying' or 'deception' in any sense of the words. News outlets are calling it a space shuttle because they are either misinformed, confused, or just

This isn't 'lying' or 'deception' in any sense of the words. News outlets are calling it a space shuttle because they are either misinformed, confused, or just trying to find a form of words that will be familiar to a layman and confer a general sense of what is being attempted while not striving for, or caring too much about, technical accuracy. Off topic - It's a little sad when people's first reaction to a mistake or inaccuracy is to immediately claim it as a deliberate attempt to mislead or other malicious act, and I see this a lot. Generally in Internet arguments the response to someone making an incorrect statement seems to be to call them a liar, as though they are deliberately misstating things, rather than simply being wrong...