AIR AND SPACE

NASA successfully launched Boeing's unmanned spacecraft Starliner bound for the International Space Station on Thursday, which NASA hopes will eventually carry astronauts.

A Virgin Atlantic flight had to turn back about 40 minutes after taking off from London Heathrow Airport this week when the airline realized that one of the pilots hadn't completed a "final assessment" flight.

Union workers reached a deal with Raytheon subsidiary Pratt & Whitney at two Connecticut jet engine manufacturing plants on Sunday.

Boeing CEO David Calhoun suggested Wednesday that the company's deal with former President Trump to provide a new Air Force One fleet at a fixed price was a mistake now that development costs have surged.

JetBlue Airways offered to buy Spirit Airlines for roughly $3.6 billion in cash, the budget airline announced on Tuesday afternoon.

NASA researchers have spotted regional fluctuations in atmospheric carbon dioxide across the world due to emissions generated from human activity during the COVID-19 pandemic, the space agency said last week.

Austin-Bergstrom International Airport sent out a fuel shortage alert on Monday and warned passengers to arrive at least two hours early as the Texas capitol deals with an influx of travelers.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk appeared unfazed when asked by Axel Springer’s Mathias Döpfner about the possibility of China or Russia taking out the Starlink satellite system Musk sent to Ukraine to help them fend off Russian invaders.

The Sustaining Lunar Development contract will offer an alternative to SpaceX's Starship, which is aiming to transport the first woman and first person of color to the Moon in 2025 or 2026 as part of NASA's Artemis III mission.

A Boeing 737-800 operated by China Eastern suddenly plunged from an altitude of about 30,000 feet on Monday in China's Guangxi region, likely killing all 132 people on board.

The standup comedian and “Saturday Night Live” star might find himself performing for an audience of a select few after a report on Thursday said that Davidson, 28, is nearing a deal to accompany the Amazon founder on an intergalactic mission to experience zero gravity weightlessness during a commercial space trip.

President Biden announced a ban on all Russian aircraft from American airspace during the State of the Union on Tuesday evening.

NASA says it will continue to work with Russia's Roscosmos space agency aboard the International Space Station despite new sanctions against the country over its invasion of Ukraine.

Ethiopian Airlines announced Monday that it will resume Boeing 737 Max flights in February, nearly three years after a crash left 157 people dead.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos issued a statement late Saturday about Friday night's warehouse tragedy in Illinois, hours after he was blasted on social media for seeming quiet on the topic amid the latest flight of his Blue Origin spacecraft.

Blue Origin's third crewed mission blasted off to suborbital space on Saturday morning on board the commercial spaceflight company's New Shepard rocket.

NASA administrator Bill Nelson had invited Willis to the launch because of his role in the film Armageddon. However, the 66-year old actor declined.

Jeff Bezos' space exploration company, Blue Origin, on Tuesday tapped new crewmembers for its next launch into space aboard the New Shepard, including TV personality and former NFL player Michael Strahan

Elon Musk says SpaceX hopes Starship's first orbital flight will happen in January

The inspector general's office predicts 2026 will likely be the Artemis program's earliest timeframe for humans' first return to the Moon in more than 50 years, citing a series of factors that have caused delays from its 2024 target.