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


NEAP: 15 years later
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Companies today seeking to prospect and mine asteroids aren't the first such ventures. Rex Ridenoure examines the history of SpaceDev and its proposed Near Earth Asteroid Prospector (NEAP) mission.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2315/1

Export control reform enters the home stretch
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For over a decade, the US space industry has been fighting to reform the restrictions that made it difficult for companies to export satellites and related components. Now, Jeff Foust reports, that battle is nearly over, although not without some last-minute concerns about what technologies will remain under ITAR.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2314/1

ISRU rocket hopper: an idea whose time has come?
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New technologies and approaches will be required to advance future robotic or human exploration of Mars. Eric Shear outlines how a rocket-powered "hopper" spacecraft, using propellants manufactured on Mars, could accomplish missions a rover or orbiter cannot.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2313/1

The coming era of atomically precise manufacturing and its implications for space
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A new book by a long-time advocate of nanotechnology claims that "atomically precise manufacturing" will usher in a new post-industrial era. Vidvuds Beldavs reviews that book and its implications for space commercialization and settlement.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2312/1


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


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


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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