Captain Eric Ziegler was unable to eject before his F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed during a training exercise Tuesday night, according to Air Force officials. He leaves behind a wife and 9-month-old daughter.
The world's most powerful communications satellite ViaSat-1 is scheduled to launch atop a Proton-M rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:48 pm ET.
In a webcast in Japan early Friday (late Thursday for the United States), Boeing briefed the world on the causes and solutions to the battery incidents that had ground the 787 fleet since mid-January.