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Date: January 28, 2013 12:33:45 PM GMT-06:00
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Welcome to this week's issue of The Space Review:


A Russian Moon?
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After years of uncertainty and delays, Russia's lunar exploration plans are starting to become clear. Dwayne Day reviews those plans for orbiter and lander missions and explains why Russia might be the most active nation exploring the Moon in the next decade.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2228/1

Asteroid mining boom or bubble?
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Last week, for the second time in less than a year, a new company announced plans to prospect and, eventually, extract resources from near Earth objects. Jeff Foust examines the similarities and differences Deep Space Industries has compared to Planetary Resources, and what this may mean for the viability of the industry as a whole.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2227/1

The asteroid mining bank
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As a second company enters the asteroid mining market, one key question is how to finance the large-scale extraction of resources from asteroids. Vidvuds Beldavs proposes a system that could handle extraterrestrial claims and help support efforts to mine asteroids and utilize their resources.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2226/1

A space telescope stays the course
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope suffered cost and schedule problems that put the program's future in jeopardy just two years ago. Now, Jeff Foust reports, NASA and industry officials say the program is back on track even as NASA's overall budget remains uncertain.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2225/1

Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock... and global warming policy choice
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Potential solutions to climate change face varying obstacles to their implementation. John Hickman argues that one space-based approach might be unique enough to get around those obstacles.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2224/1


If you missed it, here's what we published in our previous issue:


Cargo cult exploration
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As a new study on the rationale for human spaceflight gets underway, many people are likely to consider historical parallels in exploration as one justification for sending people into space. Dan Lester argues that doing so without taking into account our evolving robotic capabilities is tantamount to, and likely to be as successful as, a cargo cult.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2223/1

The benefits (and limitations) of space partnerships
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Last week NASA announced a deal with ESA to provide the service module for the Orion spacecraft and a contract with Bigelow Aerospace to send an inflatable module to the ISS. Jeff Foust reports on these developments and how they show the strengths of such partnerships, but also how they risk being oversold.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2222/1

Cislunar transportation: the space trucking system
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Why establish "waystations" at the Earth-Moon L1 point or other locations in space, as some have proposed? John Strickland draws an analogy to terrestrial transportation systems to explain how such facilities could make space exploration and development more affordable.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2221/1

An airborne telescope prepares for takeoff
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Infrared astronomy is difficult to do from the ground because of the atmosphere, so astronomers seek to get above with both satellites and aircraft. Jeff Foust checks on the status of a NASA airborne observatory that is finally ready to begin regular science flights.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2220/1


We appreciate any feedback you may have about these articles as well as
any other questions, comments, or suggestions about The Space Review.
We're also actively soliciting articles to publish in future issues, so
if you have an article or article idea that you think would be of
interest, please email me.

Until next week,

Jeff Foust
Editor, The Space Review
jeff@thespacereview.com
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