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 [...]

The next Americans to walk on the moon will wear spacesuits designed by a Houston company, Oceaneering International Inc. Oceaneering will work with other firms in designing and producing these spacesuits—including ILC Dover, which designed Apollo spacesuits, and David Clark Company, which created the Gemini spacesuit. Oceaneering will begin work immediately, although the $180 million [...]

Lockeed-Martin has been selected to design and build a new manned spacecraft. The craft will be very much like Orion—a spacecraft that has already been designed and built and tested and paid for. How does that make sense? NASA is underfunded—but was forced to cancel Constellation, a program using Orion and a booster (called Ares) [...]