President Trump appointed Christopher Rocheleau, a 22-year FAA veteran, as acting administrator of the agency.
Elon Musk pushed Federal Aviation Administration Chief Michael Whitaker from his post just 10 days before the deadly plane and Black Hawk helicopter crash over Washington, DC.
The Federal Aviation Administration is ordering SpaceX to conduct a mishap investigation into what caused the company's Starship rocket to explode mid-flight on January 16. Until the FAA approves SpaceX's investigation reported,
A fire in the aft section of SpaceX's Starship trigged the apparent explosion that destroyed the spacecraft, the company says.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told TechCrunch it had to "briefly" slow and divert a number of aircraft in the airspace near Puerto Rico, where
The incident in which a SpaceX rocket broke up after launch demonstrates the challenges the FAA will face as the number of commercial space flights increases.
The FAA grounded SpaceX's Starship pending an investigation into the failure that caused the rocket to break apart midflight. The regulator noted in a statement that it has received "reports of public property damage on Turks and Caicos" islands in the ...
The former FAA head tussled with Musk and wanted to fine SpaceX for safety violations. He resigned after Trump won the election and hasn't been replaced.
It’s one of the more obviously flawed ideas embraced by both President Donald Trump and his right-hand man Elon Musk: That government should be run like a business.
Trump said that he based his claims that the crash could be blamed on diversity policies within the FAA on his "common sense."
Recovery efforts are ongoing on the Potomac River. US President Donald Trump gave a briefing on the crash on Thursday night - where he claimed there was a link between a diversity hiring drive and the deadly collision.