Dmitry Rogozin, left, meets with Roscosmos head Igor Komarov and Russian President Vladimir Putin in April 2015.

Wednesday’s briefing begins with a report from Moscow that Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin says his comments regarding the nation’s space industry lagging behind the U.S. were misconstrued.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...