Fwd: This Week in The Space Review - 2013 May 28

Sent from my iPad

Begin forwarded message:

From: jeff@thespacereview.com (Jeff Foust)
Date: May 28, 2013 9:15:25 AM GMT-06:00
Subject: This Week in The Space Review - 2013 May 28
Reply-To: jeff@thespacereview.com

[ If you no longer wish to receive announcements from The Space Review,
please follow the instructions at the end of this message. ]


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


The private road to Mars
---
Sending humans to Mars is widely considered to be such a difficult project that only government agencies can achieve it, and even only then as a long-term goal. Jeff Foust reports on the progress made by private efforts who believe they can get humans to Mars, perhaps permanently, more quickly and less expensively than traditional government programs.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2303/1

Launch failures: information flow
---
Determining the cause of a launch failure can be difficult enough, but disseminating that information to companies and organizations can be even more challenging. Wayne Eleazer reviews some past problems with sharing launch failure information and discusses whether the situation is better today.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2302/1

Effective mechanisms for space security
---
International discussions about codes of conduct and other measures to promote space security continue this year at the UN and elsewhere. Ajey Lele examines what is required for such measures to truly enhance space security.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2301/1

Consider Mars
---
Spending money on space exploration is often pitted against terrestrial programs to raise the standard of living of people around the world. Frank Stratford argues that space programs can explore the solar system and serve humanitarian missions simultaneously.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2300/1


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


Those magnificent spooks and their spying machine: The spies help rescue Skylab
---
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
---
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
---
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
---
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


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
==
This is the spacereview mailing list, hosted by klx.com
To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@klx.com with the word
unsubscribe spacereview
in the body (not subject) of the message.
For more information please visit http://www.thespacereview.com