The FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation is charged with ensuring commercial space launches and reentries don't endanger the public and requires launch operators obtain liability ...

Consider an FAA Office of Civil Rights program which, rather than pressing its mandate to recruit wounded military veterans into the country’s thin pipeline of air traffic controllers, ...

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration office that approves launches for SpaceX, Blue Origin and other commercial space companies is taking a buyout offer and leaving the regulator.

Federal Aviation Administration chief Mike Whitaker will step down when President-elect Donald Trump takes office, Whitaker said in a memo to employees on Thursday. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, a close ...

After the Federal Aviation Administration’s antiquated air-traffic control systems attracted widespread attention in recent weeks, ... FAA Workers Return to Office to Discover Lead in Their Water.

The FAA’s Aviation Safety Workforce Plan for the 2020-2029 period, issued under Trump, said the FAA’s Office of Aviation Safety would, in the 2020 fiscal year, “continue to promote and ...

The first wave of White House-ordered firings at the Federal Aviation Administration included employees who play important roles in the safety of air travel — despite the Trump administration ...

Trump’s rule by self-inflicted chaos trickled down to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the Department of Transportation, where even air traffic controllers and airport control towers ...

Rachel Maddow tells the story of how the former FAA administrator, Michael Whitaker, fell afoul of Elon Musk and was driven from his position upon Donald Trump taking office. With Trump's ...

Federal Aviation Administration chief Mike Whitaker, who has overseen the agency's response to significant safety issues at Boeing since a mid-air emergency in January, will step down when ...

It seems the FAA office overseeing SpaceX’s Starship probe still has some bite. ... No one here is saying you have to comply, but you do have to get along with all of your coworkers in the office.