Two NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station, who were scheduled to return to Earth weeks ago, said Wednesday they were confident Boeing's Starliner capsule can bring them home, after a series of technical issues caused their return from the International Space Station to be delayed for nearly a month.
There are worse places to suffer a travel delay than on the International Space Station.
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun apologized and vowed the planemaker would follow government rules after the National Transportation Safety Board said the company provided non-public information about the 737 MAX mid-air panel blowout, the safety panel's top official said on Wednesday.
It is not hyperbole to say we are closer to World War III than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. With the U.S. and its western allies provoking Russia over its invasion of Ukraine by saying they will admit the country into NATO, hostilities could escalate.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are confident in the ability of Boeing Co.'s Starliner spacecraft to bring them back to Earth in an emergency despite ongoing tests into issues with the spacecraft that have extended their stay on the International Space Station.
The first two astronauts to fly Boeing's Starliner capsule said from the International Space Station on Wednesday they were confident in the spacecraft's ability to return them home whenever the company and NASA fix an array of thruster issues that have kept them in space far longer than expected.
In the deepest trouble in its history, Boeing (NYSE: BA) sold only three passenger jets in the last month, an extraordinary drop from its usual rate.
Beleaguered airplane manufacturer Boeing recorded a 32% fall in deliveries of its commercial airplanes in the second quarter of the current fiscal year compared to last year.
Boeing delivered more commercial planes last month than at any other point this year, the company announced Tuesday, following delays in production and deliveries for the aerospace firm, which has faced increased scrutiny since a metal door plug flew off an Alaska Airlines 737 earlier this year.
Boeing said on Tuesday it delivered more commercial jets in June than in any other month this year, but the total of 44 planes represented a 27% drop on an annual basis amid a whirlwind of legal and production challenges.
For many of the global problems today, the solution will arrive via air mobility in the near future. Too much traffic?
Boeing's guilty plea isn't related to production-quality problems which led to the 737 MAX 9 emergency-door-plug blowout. The plea is about 737 MAX design.