Boeing has already amassed $2.6 billion of reach-forward losses on the $3.9 billion fixed-price VC-25B contract as of Q2 2024.

In late March (at the earliest), SpaceX's Crew-9 mission will return to Earth from the International Space Station with four astronauts aboard, including NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. The duo were originally supposed to come home on a Boeing Starliner, but that plan was scrapped due to safety concerns with the capsule.

Calamity Capsule continues to be calamitous for the bottom line Boeing is warning of another hit to its bottom line, at least partly at the hands of the company's Calamity Capsule, the CST-100 Starliner.

The astronauts who traveled to the International Space Station aboard the Boeing Starliner are in good health, a NASA spokesperson has said, dismissing fake online reports of their death. The false narrative also includes false quotes attributed to Elon Musk.

The incident highlights the growing issue of tensions between rocket launches and commercial aviation.

Just before 3 p.m. on Dec. 18, a surprising visitor showed up at Boeing Co.’s military aircraft facility in San Antonio, Texas: First Buddy Elon Musk.

Jeff Bezos, the second richest man in the world, successfully blasted off a 320-foot-tall rocket ship made by his Blue Origin company from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in the early hours of the morning. It made the company the first to successfully reach orbit on its first launch of an orbital-class rocket.

Donald Trump ordered the immediate end to diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the Federal Aviation Administration.

The pair originally entered space in June 2024 for what was supposed to be a weeklong test flight of a Boeing Starliner capsule ... NASA previously said it is working with SpaceX to "complete processing” on a new Dragon spacecraft for the mission.

Wilmore, 61, and Williams, 58, are veteran astronauts and are both naval officers and former test pilots. Williams has been a NASA astronaut since 1998, and Wilmore since 2000. Both have plenty of experience in space.

Elon Musk has taken on a new role as the First Buddy: monitoring the progress on the long-awaited revamped Air Force One jets. The new Air Force One planes, made by Boeing, are currently $2.7 billion over budget and three years behind schedule.