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From: jeff@thespacereview.com (Jeff Foust)
Date: April 16, 2013 2:22:37 AM GMT-06:00
Subject: This Week in The Space Review - 2013 April 15
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Welcome to this week's issue of The Space Review:
Crowdfunding space
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Within the last year a number of cutting-edge space projects have gotten their start through a new funding concept called crowdfunding. Jeff Foust examines the benefits and drawbacks of using crowdfunding to support space projects, and the prospects for true crowdsourced investment in space companies.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2279/1
Human space exploration: why Godot isn't coming, but Golden Spike is
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People have been waiting for decades for a human return to the Moon in the classic Apollo paradigm, without success. Alan Stern and Homer Hickam argue that it's time to embrace a commercial approach for human space exploration.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2278/1
Piecing together the Chelyabinsk event
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Two months ago, a meteor exploded high above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, causing damage and injuring more than a thousand people. Jeff Foust reports on the latest insights into exactly what happened that day and its implications for looking for and understanding the threats posed by near Earth objects.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2277/1
Review: Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment
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When the Soviet Union surprised America and the rest of the world with the launch of the first satellite, the Eisenhower Administration took the blame for allowing the US to be beat. Jeff Foust reviews a book that reexamines Eisenhower's legacy in a more positive light.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2276/1
If you missed it, here's what we published in our previous issue:
The uneasy state of NASA's human space exploration program
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Next week marks the third anniversary of President Obama's speech calling for a human mission to an asteroid, but many people, including some within NASA, still have trouble accepting that goal. Jeff Foust reports on that perceived lack of enthusiasm and whether a new proposal to retrieve an asteroid could change people's minds.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2275/1
Move over NASA and make room for the TVA of space
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NASA has been taking steps to promote commercial space development, but that is neither the only nor the highest agency priority. Three authors argues that a federally-chartered corporation modeled on the Tennessee Valley Authority could accelerate commercial space development in the US and worldwide.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2274/1
Revisiting exoplanets and dark matter
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Two of the biggest topics in astronomy today are the search for extrasolar planets and the composition of dark matter. Jeff Foust updates some recent reports on those topics with news on new exoplanet missions and results from an experiment on the ISS.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2273/1
Review: Your Ticket to the Universe
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Compressing the entire universe into a single book can be a difficult task. Jeff Foust reviews a recent book that offers the reader a whirlwind tour of the cosmos, from the Earth to distant galaxies.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2272/1
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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