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


Redirecting an asteroid mission
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Since its announcement in April, NASA has struggled to win public and political support for its asteroid initiative, including a mission to move a small asteroid into cislunar space. Jeff Foust reports on how NASA may be tweaking the effort to place a greater emphasis on planetary defense, while some in Congress move to block the project.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2318/1

Bird on a wire
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On Saturday, the Kennedy Space Center's Visitor Complex will open its new exhibit showing the shuttle Atlantis. Dwayne Day offers a preview of what to expect when the doors open to the public.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2317/1

Gallery: Atlantis exhibit at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
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A collection of photos of the new Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
http://www.thespacereview.com/gallery/31

Review: Up and Down
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A contest to select two ordinary people to fly in space in order to build public support for spaceflight: what could possibly go wrong? Jeff Foust reviews a Canadian novel that entertainingly shows how how things could go awry.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2316/1

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


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


We appreciate any feedback you may have about these articles as well as
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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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