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


Seeing the shuttles, two years after wheels stop
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Sunday marked the second anniversary of the landing of Atlantis on the final Space Shuttle mission. Jeff Foust examines Atlantis's new home at the Kennedy Space Center as well as the reopening of the shuttle Enterprise exhibit in New York.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2336/1

Space control in the Air Force's 2014 budget request
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Comments made by a senior Defense Department official in May led some to speculate that the military had started a new antisatellite weapons program. Victoria Samson examines the military's 2014 budget request and finds no evidence of such an effort.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2335/1

Let's all go to Space Camp!
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The 1986 film "Space Camp", about a group of teenagers accidentally launched into space, is one of the highlights of an earlier, more optimistic era about spaceflight. Dwayne Day checks out a new film that is, at best, an unappealing remake of that earlier movie.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2334/1

Review: The X-15 Rocket Plane
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The X-15 remains one of the most fascinating aerospace programs, setting speed and altitude records that in some cases still stand today. Anthony Young reviews a book that offers a history of the program from the perspective of those who flew and worked on this rocketplane.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2333/1


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


Science and the ARM
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NASA's plans to redirect an asteroid into cislunar space and sending astronauts to it would seme like something that would excite planetary scientists, given the prospects of returning large amounts of samples from that asteroid. However, Jeff Foust reports, some are worried about the challenges such a mission faces and the priority science would have on it.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2332/1

You've come a long way, baby!
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Fifty-one years ago this week, Congress held hearings on whether women should be astronauts. Dwayne Day looks back at this key turning point in the debate about whether women should fly in space, in light of a letter from that era now making the rounds online.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2331/1

Revisiting SLS/Orion launch costs
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NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket continues to receive scrutiny in some quarters because of concerns about just how affordable the vehicle will be. John Strickland examines the costs of SLS in light of recent developments that suggest the vehicle could have a very low flight rate.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2330/1

The Chief Technologist's view of the HGS-1 mission
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Jerry Salvatore, former chief technologist with Hughes, offers his own understanding of the facts surrounding who was involved in, and should get credit for, the rescue of the AsiaSat 3 satellite by the company 15 years ago.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2329/1

Stimulating greater use of the ISS
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As researchers meet this week to discuss research on the International Space Station, NASA and the organization that manages ISS research are being pressed to make greater use of the station's facilities. Jeff Foust reviews those challenges and the efforts of one startup company that believes its research could have a significant commercial payoff.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2328/1


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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