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Welcome to this week's issue of The Space Review:


Those magnificent spooks and their spying machine: The spies help rescue Skylab
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Forty years ago this month, NASA launched its Skylab space station, only to find the station was damaged during its ascent to orbit. Dwayne Day examines the little-known role played by a spy satellite to help NASA assess the damage to Skylab before launching a repair mission.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2299/1

Kepler's uncertain future
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Last week a reaction wheel on NASA's Kepler spacecraft failed, putting the future of the extrasolar planet hunting spacecraft into jeopardy. Jeff Foust reports on efforts to rescue or repurpose Kepler, and why, even with the failure, the spacecraft's exoplanet discoveries will continue.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2298/1

Futures imperfect
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Science fiction has long offered a variety of visions of what the future of spaceflight might be like. Dwayne Day looks at three movies slated for release later this year that offer differing visions of humans in space.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2297/1

Review: Mission to Mars
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Decades after his historic mission to the Moon, Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin remains a tireless advocate for human spaceflight. Jeff Foust reviews a new book by Aldrin that provides his roadmap for how, although not necessarily why, to get humans to Mars by the 2030s.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2296/1


Note: Because of the Memorial Day holiday, next week's issue will be published on Tuesday, May 28.

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


Beyond GEO, commercially: 15 years... and counting
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Fifteen years ago today, a commercial communications satellite stranded in a transfer orbit flew around the Moon in a bid to make it to geosynchronous orbit. Rex Ridenoure provides a behind-the-scenes account of the development of that rescue scenario, marking the first -- and, to date, only -- commercial mission beyond GEO.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2295/1

Asteroids: on the way to Mars, or just in the way?
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NASA has argued that its proposed asteroid initiative, including a mission to redirect an asteroid into lunar orbit to be visited by astronauts, is a key step towards human missions to Mars. Jeff Foust reports from a Mars conference last week where some saw that asteroid mission as more of a distraction.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2294/1

Cruising through the cosmos on waves of sound
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Space has been an inspiration of sorts to some forms of electronic music, including the genre known today as "ambient." Dwayne Day looks at this intersection of space and music on display at a recent concert.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2293/1

Review: Moon Hoax
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Some novels require a certain degree of suspension of disbelief by the reader to accept plot developments that otherwise might not seem credible. Jeff Foust reviews a novel about a human mission to the Moon that may take that need for suspending disbelief a little too far.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2292/1


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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