Articles by Dominic Gates

Dominic Gates is a journalist based in Seattle. For 22 years he covered Boeing and the aerospace industry for The Seattle Times, where he won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for stories that exposed the design flaws in the Boeing 737 MAX behind two fatal crashes and the failures in government oversight that let them through. He also chronicled the development of the 787 Dreamliner. He retired from the Times in 2025 and now writes independently. Email: [email protected].

Latest from Dominic Gates

Elon Musk’s Mars illusion

A look at the science behind Elon Musk’s goal of a million-person city on Mars, and why planetary scientists say terraforming the planet to make it habitable would take centuries, if it’s possible at all. The revenue Musk says will pay for the Mars effort comes from Starlink, the satellite network SpaceX designs and builds in Redmond. Read More