Boeing Archives

A decade ago NASA chose two companies, Boeing and SpaceX, to each develop a new spacecraft capable of transporting its astronauts to the International Space Station

Business

Boeing’s Starliner: a saga marked by setbacks

The decision to transfer the crew of Boeing’s Starliner to a SpaceX mission after the spacecraft malfunctioned is just the latest twist in a...

AFPAugust 24, 2024

US air safety regulators issued an airworthiness directive following a March incident on a Boeing 787 operated by LATAM Airlines

Business

US orders Boeing 787 inspections after LATAM plane plunge

US regulators said Monday they ordered inspections of pilot seats on hundreds of Boeing 787 planes.

AFPAugust 19, 2024

Barry 'Butch' Wilmore and Sunita 'Suni' Williams were originally scheduled to spend a little more than a week aboard the ISS

Tech & Science

NASA to decide stranded Starliner astronauts’ route home by end of month

NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams blasted off for the ISS on Starliner on June 5.

AFPAugust 14, 2024

Business

How to bring Boeing astronauts home? NASA to decide by end of month

NASA needs to decide by the end of August whether to return two astronauts to Earth aboard Boeing’s Starliner, which flew them to the...

AFPAugust 14, 2024

A final decision on whether to persist with Starliner -- seen here docked with the ISS -- is expected later this month, officials said

World

NASA weighs SpaceX rescue for stranded Boeing Starliner crew

What was meant to be a weeklong trip to the International Space Station (ISS) for the first NASA astronauts to fly with Boeing could...

AFPAugust 7, 2024

A Boeing 737 MAX aircraft is assembled at the Boeing Renton Factory in Washington state in June 2024

Business

Key moments in Boeing’s difficult history with the 737 MAX

Boeing's quality control practices will be placed under a microscope this week at a two-day National Transportation Safety Board hearing.

AFPAugust 5, 2024

A two-day hearing is set to investigate what happened on a January 5 Alaska Airlines flight in which a panel on the fuselage of a 737 MAX blew out mid-flight

Business

Hearing to probe Alaska Airlines emergency on Boeing jet

US investigators will on Tuesday open a two-day hearing into a near-catastrophic January incident on a Boeing 737 MAX operated by Alaska Airlines that...

AFPAugust 5, 2024

Boeing announced that outgoing CEO Dave Calhoun, pictured here, is being replaced by that Kelly Ortberg

Business

Boeing names new CEO as it reports hefty loss

Boeing named former Rockwell Collins chief Robert “Kelly” Ortberg its next CEO Wednesday, as the aviation giant reported a hefty loss on continued operational...

AFPJuly 31, 2024