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Hedge fund Elliott calls for Southwest shareholders to meet and vote on its slate of directors

The second largest shareholder of Southwest Airlines on Monday called for special meeting of shareholders to vote on its slate of eight new directors, which would represent a majority of the struggling airline’s board. Elliott Management, which has been highly critical of Southwest in recent months, is pushing for leadership changes and an overhaul of

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In an engineering feat, mechanical SpaceX arms catch Starship rocket booster back at the launch pad

AP Aerospace Writer SpaceX pulled off the boldest test flight yet of its enormous Starship rocket on Sunday, catching the returning booster back at the launch pad with mechanical arms. A jubilant Elon Musk called it “science fiction without the fiction part.” Towering almost 400 feet (121 meters), the empty Starship blasted off at sunrise

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