28 July 2016
United Launch Alliance Sets New Record for Largest Sports Rocket Launch
... founded in 2006, United Launch Alliance has completed over 100 consecutive successful launches. ULA is a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, and produces Atlas V and Delta IV rockets, among others.
08 May 2017
"Secret" space plane lands after 2 years in orbit
..., the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B unmanned space plane landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida yesterday. Built by Boeing, the U.S. military's experimental X-37B, which has overtones of the space shuttle design, blasted off in May 2015...
30 October 2019
Questions surround US top-secret spaceplane mission
... between government and industry,” said Gen. David Goldfein, the Air Force chief of staff, in a statement. Developed by Boeing Phantom Works, the reusable X-37B spaceplane is designed to launch on top of a conventional rocket; for this particular...
23 December 2019
New launch target for SpaceX abort test
... to such a system. NASA is helping to pay for the development of Crew Dragon and one other capsule design, Boeing’s CTS-100 Starliner, under the Commercial Crew Program. Both capsules are meant to carry crew members...
10 June 2019
NASA opens ISS to space tourists
... said in New York. These missions must use U.S. transportation vehicles certified by NASA, such as the ones developed by Boeing and SpaceX under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). To accommodate this, NASA has expanded the International...
04 August 2024
NASA faces sticky choice between Boeing and SpaceX for safe return of astronauts
...potentially the lives of two astronauts - NASA and Boeing's careful phrasing of their testing work on Starliner’s...to send Starliner back empty, it’s a vote of no confidence in Boeing which could even lead the company to cut its losses and withdraw ...
