Chris Boex

Tampa

Director of Digital Content, Group Content Team at Fox Corporation

FOX Television Stations journalist by day; dad by night. Occasional space reporter. #SpaceCamp @UofMaryland #Terps. #BlueAces. Ever-wary Cleveland sports fan.

Articles

Were they stuck? NASA’s Starliner astronauts finally weigh in

3 weeks ago | livenowfox.com | Chris Boex

NASA’s so-called stuck astronauts, after being home for two weeks, insist they did not feel stuck aboard the space station when their problem-plagued Starliner capsule was sent back to Earth without them. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams spoke to Bill Hemmer of FOX News, making their first public comments about the dramatically extended mission. They acknowledged that spaceflight is still a tough business and Wilmore even tried to take the blame for some of the Starliner issues. Stuck or not?
List: The most and least American-made cars

4 weeks ago | livenowfox.com | Chris Boex

President Donald Trump’s 25% tariff on imported automobiles will hit some carmakers harder than others. Vehicles that are made mostly in America, with American-made parts, will be hit the least. But overseas brands without much of a factory presence in the U.S. could see significant increases in cost.
Watch: SpaceX spy satellite launch leaves otherworldly spiral in the sky

1 month ago | livenowfox.com | Chris Boex

Monday’s SpaceX launch was carrying a classified satellite to space, but the secret payload was not the cause of an unusual glowing spiral seen in the skies of Europe. Social media was filled with photos and videos of the blue swirling cloud left behind by the rocket – an unusual, though not unprecedented, sight. NROL-69 launch What we know: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral just before 2 p.m. on Monday, carrying a satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
Photos: Lunar lander gets rare view of eclipse from the moon

1 month ago | livenowfox.com | Chris Boex

Views of the eclipse from the moon (Firefly Aerospace) While Earthlings were watching the moon almost disappear during Friday morning’s lunar eclipse, a robotic lander on the moon was looking back and getting a very different – and very rare – view. Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander captured nearly unprecedented images of what appeared, from its perspective in the moon’s Mare Crisium, to be a total solar eclipse as Earth blocked out the sun.
SpaceX astronaut launch scrubbed due to technical issue

1 month ago | fox5ny.com | Chris Boex

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft atop, seen Tuesday morning at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (SpaceX photo) A Wednesday evening SpaceX launch, intended to send a new crew to the space station, was scrubbed less than an hour before launch due to a hydraulics issue at the launch pad.
Evening SpaceX launch will set up astronauts' long-overdue return

1 month ago | livenowfox.com | Chris Boex

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft atop, seen Tuesday morning at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (SpaceX photo) A Wednesday evening SpaceX launch will send a new crew to the space station, but much of the attention will be focused on two astronauts who are not aboard.
Most Americans still want U.S. to take "leading or major world role," poll finds

1 month ago | foxla.com | Chris Boex

Amidst recent turmoil in the Middle East and Ukraine, most Americans still support the idea that the U.S. should play a "leading or major world role," a recent poll found. Gallup says 66% of Americans want the country to help solve international problems, versus 25% saying the U.S. should only take a minor role. By the numbers:Respondents were asked if the U.S. should: Take a leading role in world affairs, take a major role but not the leading role, take a minor role, or take no role.
Most Americans still want U.S. to take "leading or major world role," poll finds

1 month ago | fox6now.com | Chris Boex

President Trump speech: Foreign policy a major focus President Donald Trump delivered an address a joint session of Congress and foreign policy proposals were a major focus. LiveNOW's Andrew Craft and Austin Westfall discussed the speech with national security expert Hal Kempfer. WASHINGTON - Amidst recent turmoil in the Middle East and Ukraine, most Americans still support the idea that the U.S. should play a "leading or major world role," a recent poll found.
Most Americans still want U.S. to take "leading or major world role," poll finds

1 month ago | livenowfox.com | Chris Boex

Amidst recent turmoil in the Middle East and Ukraine, most Americans still support the idea that the U.S. should play a "leading or major world role," a recent poll found. Gallup says 66% of Americans want the country to help solve international problems, versus 25% saying the U.S. should only take a minor role. By the numbers: Respondents were asked if the U.S. should: Take a leading role in world affairs, take a major role but not the leading role, take a minor role, or take no role.
Elon Musk responds after former space station commander calls him a "liar"

2 months ago | foxla.com | Chris Boex

A high-flying war of words is underway after the former commander of the space station called SpaceX CEO and presidential advisor Elon Musk a liar. Andreas Mogensen, a Danish astronaut who was in charge of an International Space Station crew that returned home last year, made the comment on X in response to Musk's claims that the Biden administration purposefully delayed the return of NASA's so-called stranded astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.