The eight-week strike by 27,000 workers in Washington state, Oregon and Kansas ended after the Machinists union ratified a new four-year contract with the company Saturday.
The workers - among them electricians, painters and mechanics - began returning to Boeings commercial aircraft plants Sunday night, and the entire union work force is due to resume work by Monday.
The walkout cost the company an estimated $100 million per day in deferred revenue. Boeings commercial aircraft plants had been operating at full capacity amid a record backlog of orders before the strike began Sept. 6.
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After the strike, Boeing factories resumed work. Machinists union members ended their walkout on Saturday by ratifying a new contract with Boeing. Members of the union, which represents about 27,000 workers at plants in Washington state, Oregon and Kansas, voted about 74 percent in favor of the proposal five days after the two sides tentatively agreed to the deal and union leaders recommended its approval.
“This contract gives the workers at Boeing an opportunity to share in the extraordinary success this company has achieved over the past several years,” Mark Blondin, the unions aerospace coordinator and chief negotiator, said in a - - - - >

Pictures sent from the Hubble have stopped, it has not been sending any back since another issue involving a camera reboot. Rescue options are being planned to regain the picture transmitting portion of the Hubble’s operation.
Officials had hoped to have the 18-year-old observatory back in business Friday, after it stopped sending pictures three weeks ago. But a pair of problems cropped up Thursday, and now recovery operations are on hold.
It’s unclear how long the telescope will be prevented from transmitting its stunning photos of the cosmos.
The soonest it could be operating fully again is late next week, said Art Whipple, - - - - >

The pod touched down, and three astronauts stepped out. They had returned from a mission that saw China’s first solo spacewalk without incident. The technology involved was a demonstration of what it takes to be a space power.
A senior space official said the mission - China’s most ambitious yet - took the country one step closer in its plan to build a space station and then to land a man on the moon.
Wang Zhaoyao, deputy director of manned space flight, said the program is looking to launch a new orbiting vehicle and set up a simple space lab by 2011. - - - - >

The Rosetta probe passes an asteroid that is a bit to close to earth for comfort, a mere 250 million miles. During a flyby the craft takes photos, but remains on it’s course toward the real target. Both icy and solid space debris will come under inspection.
In a mission that may bring man closer to solving the mystery of the solar system’s birth, the craft completed its flyby of the Steins asteroid, also known as Asteroid 2867 - now in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter - at around 3:15 p.m. EDT.
As planned, the spacecraft’s - - - - >