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


Suborbital research enters a time of transition
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For the last several years, scientists and spaceflight advocates have been promoting suborbital reusable launch vehicles as an ideal platform for research. Now, Jeff Foust reports, those efforts may finally be paying off as those vehicles get closer to flight.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2311/1

"We don't take girls": Hillary Clinton and her NASA letter
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Former senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said on multiple occasions that she wrote to NASA as a girl and was told she could not become an astronaut. James Oberg examines what records exist of that era to see how likely it would have been for NASA to send such a letter.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2310/1

A values-based approach toward national space policy
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A long-standing challenge in national space policy is developing compelling rationale for human spaceflight. Matt Greenhouse argues that human spaceflight can provide value by supporting missions of discovery.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2309/1

Review: Apollo: The Epic Journey to the Moon, 1963-1972
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The 50th anniversaries of the Apollo program are starting to ramp up even as the last of the 40th anniversaries of the lunar landings fade in the rearview mirror. Jeff Foust reviews a book that offers a basic, if well illustrated, overview of Apollo that is little different than an earlier edition of the same book.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2308/1


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


Spinning for the prize
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A short-lived team in the Google Lunar X PRIZE competition took a unique approach to landing a spacecraft on the Moon. Rex Ridenoure recounts the history and technology of the Southern California Selene Group and its spinning lander concept.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2307/1

Planetary Resources makes a giant leap in space crowdfunding
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Space ventures have become increasingly interested in crowdfunding as a way of supporting some of their projects, at least on a small scale. Jeff Foust reports on how Planetary Resources has set the bar much higher with a crowdfunded space telescope, and appears to be well on its way to clearing that bar.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2306/1

International space law and commercial space activities: the rules do apply
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Some believe that commercial space activities are exempt from elements of international space law, like the Outer Space Treaty. Michael Listner makes the case that those treaties and national regulations required by them do apply to commercial ventures as well as governments.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2305/1

Exoplanet capabilities of WFIRST-2.4
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NASA has completed a study about the potential use of a telescope donated by the NRO to carry out an astronomy mission called WFIRST. Philip Horzempa examines how this proposed mission would also be very useful in search for and studying extrasolar planets.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2304/1


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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