Seattle’s space sector taps into unique talent pool

As more and more hardware goes into Earth orbit, and eventually to the moon and Mars, where will the power to run all those machines come from?That’s one of the questions under consideration at a State of the Space Industrial Base workshop that’s being conducted this week at Seattle’s Museum...

After a glitch in February, Boeing is finally delivering again its two most important jets, the 737 MAX and the long-haul 787 Dreamliner.Yes, production rates are low. But, after four years that saw Boeing’s business decimated, its reputation sullied and its historic engineering culture tested as never before, demand for...

If Jeff Bezos needs a blueprint for building a space station beyond the moon with ore from an asteroid, he just might want to start with “Critical Mass,” a newly published sci-fi novel by Daniel Suarez.The 464-page book describes in detail how entrepreneurs, engineers and astronauts take advantage of a...