Boeing Wins

An important development to note in lunar program hardware (MarketWatch - Boeing wins rocket bid in NASA's lunar program):

Boeing Co. edged a key rival to win a contract to work on the rockets NASA will use to return astronauts to the moon, the U.S. space agency said late Tuesday. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said it chose Boeing as the contractor to design and build the upper stage of the Ares 1 rocket, which will help carry a crew of astronauts into space - over and over, if NASA's plans come through. Ares and the Orion crew vehicle, the conical capsule that will sit atop the rocket, are set to become NASA's next vehicle for space transport when it retires its last space shuttle in 2010.