Daily Archives: Jun 28, 2026

Boeing’s Starliner was supposed to complete a final human-rating milestone and move into routine station service. Instead, its first crewed mission turned into a case study in how a propulsion problem can ripple through spacecraft certification, mission planning, and NASA’s broader strategy for getting people to orbit. The result is...

A runway collision at a major airport is rarely about a single bad moment. It usually exposes several layers of design, procedure, staffing and timing that were already in place long before impact. At LaGuardia, the most important engineering and operations questions extend beyond one control instruction. The incident...

Army sidearms rarely get the same attention as rifles, but they often reveal more about military priorities than any long gun. A service pistol has to work when space is tight, maintenance is uneven, and the user may not be a handgun specialist at all. That is why a handful...