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American Airlines threatens to cancel some Boeing Max orders

By DAVID KOENIG - Associated Press

Report: Boeing fell short in disclosing key changes to Max

By DAVID KOENIG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2019, file photo, a Boeing 737 Max being built for Norwegian Air International taxis for a test flight, at Renton Municipal Airport in Renton, Wash. Key senators say the Federal Aviation Administration is stonewalling their attempt to get documents that might explain how the agency approved the Boeing 737 Max, which remains grounded more than a year after two deadly crashes. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Roger Wicker, a Republican from Mississippi, said Wednesday, June 17, 2020 that the FAA has failed to respond to more than half of his committee’s requests for documents. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Norwegian Air cancels order for 97 Boeing aircraft

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Flight testing for Boeing’s 737 Max could begin Monday

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Boeing investigating racist incident at Everett plant

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FILE - In a Monday, March 23, 2020 file photo, an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 Max lands at Paine Field near Boeing's manufacturing facility in Everett, Wash., north of Seattle. U.S. regulators are requiring inspections and possible repairs to engine coverings of all Boeing 737 Max jets. That's because of a problem that regulators say could lead to loss of engine power. The problem isn't related to a system suspected in two deadly crashes involving Max planes, but it's another blow to the company's safety reputation. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

FAA orders fix for engine covers of Boeing 737 Max planes

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FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 28, 2019 file photo, Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic, poses for a photo outside the New York Stock Exchange as fireworks are exploded before his company's IPO. In 2020, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said space is currently a $400 billion market, including satellites. Opening up spaceflight to paying customers, he said, could expand the market to $1 trillion. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

SpaceX opens era of amateur astronauts, cosmic movie sets

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

A Virgin Orbit Boeing 747-400 aircraft named Cosmic Girl takes off from Mojave Air and Space Port in the desert north of Los Angeles Monday, May 25, 2020. Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit failed Monday in its first test launch of a new rocket carried aloft by the Boeing 747 and released over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California. (AP Photo/Matt Hartman)

Virgin Orbit analyzing data to find cause of rocket failure

By JOHN ANTCZAK - Associated Press

This illustration made available by SpaceX depicts the company's Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket during the uncrewed In-Flight Abort Test for NASA's Commercial Crew Program. (SpaceX via AP)

NASA astronauts go back to the future with capsule launch

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

In this Jan. 17, 2020 photo made available by SpaceX, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken, left, and Doug Hurley, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, walk through the Crew Access Arm connecting the launch tower to the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft during a dress rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. For their May 27, 2020 mission, Hurley will be in charge of launch and landing and Behnken will oversee rendezvous and docking at the International Space Station. (SpaceX via AP)

NASA’s newest test pilots are veteran astronauts, friends

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit plans first space launch

By JOHN ANTCZAK - Associated Press

A masked worker walks in view of a 737 jet at a Boeing airplane manufacturing plant Wednesday, April 29, 2020, in Renton, Wash. Boeing says it will cut about 10% of its work force and slow production of planes as it deals with the ongoing grounding of its best-selling plane and the coronavirus pandemic. With air travel falling sharply because of the virus, airlines have delayed orders and deliveries of new planes, reducing Boeing's revenue. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Boeing cuts compound virus’s threat to Seattle-area economy

By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 20, 2020 file photo, Lufthansa airline, Boeing 747 aircrafts are parked at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany. Boeing says it will cut about 10% of its work force and slow production of planes as it deals with the ongoing grounding of its best-selling plane and the coronavirus pandemic. With air travel falling sharply because of the virus, airlines have delayed orders and deliveries of new planes, reducing Boeing’s revenue. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Boeing to cut 10% of work force as 1Q revenue, profit slide

By DAVID KOENIG - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 18 2015 file photo, vapor forms across the wings of an Airbus A380 as it performs a demonstration flight at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget airport, north of Paris. The France-based planemaker Airbus releases quarterly earnings early Wednesday April 29, 2020, at a time of unprecedented upheaval in the aviation industry caused by the spreading the coronavirus and travel lockdowns. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Airbus says virus aviation crisis still at ‘early stage’

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 20, 2020, file photo, planes sit parked behind a sign marking Boeing property at a Boeing production plant in Renton, Wash. Boeing shareholders approved a slate of 12 company-backed nominees for the board on Monday, April 27, despite recommendations from two proxy advisers against five directors, including the chairman, for what the advisers called poor oversight of the company's handling of the 737 Max crisis. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Boeing CEO sees long road to recovery from virus outbreak

By DAVID KOENIG - Associated Press

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks at a news conference about the coronavirus relief bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 25, 2020, in this file photo. Mr. Graham and other Senate Republicans are introducing a bill that would allow the president to impose an array of sanctions on China, including travel bans, asset freezes and financial penalties, if Beijing does not provide proof it has shut down unsanitary wet markets and been transparent about its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Accepting masks from China, Graham calls for U.S. production

By MEG KINNARD - Associated Press

Boeing ends deal, angering Brazilian jet maker Embraer

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People wearing protective masks queue up to go in a garden store in Munich, Germany, Monday, April 20, 2020. The German government has moved to restrict freedom of movement for people, in an effort to slow the onset of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Some US producers, states reopening amid political pressure

By COLLEEN LONG and GENE JOHNSON and MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Protesters demonstrate at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, April 20, 2020, demanding that Gov. Tom Wolf reopen Pennsylvania's economy even as new social-distancing mandates took effect at stores and other commercial buildings. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

What you need to know today about the virus outbreak

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Spirit AeroSystems bringing back some furloughed workers

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