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Mon, Sep 28, 2026, 22:30:48 MT

THE AIR CURRENT · AIRLINES

NASA INVESTS IN BOEING, WOOS NEW ENTRANTS TO REPLACE SPACEX’S DRAGON...

NASA is investing in Boeing’s long-delayed Starliner spacecraft to ferry astronauts to Low Earth Orbit into the 2030s while also wooing other vendors to create successors to the SpaceX Dragon capsule that’s dominated human spaceflight this decade.

SCOTT: Ask what this does to pairings, the MEL, and the jumpseat. Press releases are written for investors. You fly the leftover.

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