Business Week writes about the symbiotic relationship between Russia and the U.S. in space exploration. It re-iterates the biggest upcoming situation—that for five years or more, the U.S. will depend on Russia to get its astronauts into space. After the shuttle retires, only the Russian Soyuz will be available to ferry people to the International [...]

Esther Dyson, a wealthy technology entrepreneur, book a flight on a Soyuz sometime back. We wrote about it here. She trained for six months, but never flew. (Yet.) She’s still hoping to fly—seats are getting scarce for paid space travelers aboard Soyuz—and it’s pricey even for successful businesspeople like Ms. Dyson. That said, she had [...]

Words cannot express how much I admire Buzz Aldrin. But… He seems to think that America faced a choice of going to the moon or going to Mars, and wisely chose the latter. NASA’s new  course in space is allegedly to spend time and money doing research and finding the best way to send people [...]