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


NRC's "Pathway to Exploration" should start with the Asteroid Redirect Mission
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The National Research Council's human space exploration report released earlier this month did not look favorably on NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) plans. Lou Friedman and Tom Jones argue that ARM, rather than being a dead end towards the long-term goal of Mars, is instead a key enabling mission.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2545/1

Red tortoise, blue turtle
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In the past, many Western observers conflated China's robotic lunar exploration plans with its human spaceflight plans. But as Dwayne Day explains, the two may be finally, if slowly, starting to truly come together.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2544/1

Air launch, big and small
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While the concept of air launch seems compelling, such systems have failed to have much effect on the overall launch market. Jeff Foust reports on two different air launch ventures, one by DARPA and one funded by Paul Allen, attacking the air launch idea from two very different directions.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2543/1

India and the satellite launch market
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On Monday, an Indian PSLV rocket placed five satellites into orbit on a commercial mission. Ajey Lele examines what India needs to do to become more competitive in the global commercial launch market.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2542/1

Review: Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication
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A new NASA book got media attention last month when some bloggers and reporters said it claimed aliens left mysterious writings on the Earth. Jeff Foust reviews the book to find that it, instead, offers a very different, and sometimes critical, take on SETI proposals to communicate with any extraterrestrial civilizations.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2541/1


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


Ten years later, still waiting for the future to arrive
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This month marks the tenth anniversary of the first flight to space by SpaceShipOne, an event at the time that appeared to mark a new era in human spaceflight. Jeff Foust looks back at the event and the progress, or seemingly lack thereof, in commercial human suborbital spaceflight.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2540/1

All alone in the night: The Manned Orbiting Laboratory emerges from the shadows
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In 1969, the Nixon Administration cancelled the Manned Orbiting Laboratory, focusing its resources on other reconnaissance satellites. Dwayne Day describes new insights into the  MOL program from recently released documents.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2539/1

Boeing displays CST-100 progress at Kennedy Space Center
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As NASA reviews proposals for the next phase of the commercial crew program, companies continue to show off the progress they have made and their future plans. Anthony Young reports on a Boeing event earlier this month in Florida, where the company plans to assemble its CST-100 spacecraft.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2538/1

It's time for NASA to abandon the Apollo mission model
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Both the National Research Council's human space exploration and a separate internal NASA study lay out a path of missions and destinations for human spaceflight beyond Earth orbit. John Strickland argues that they fail, though, by following an Apollo-era paradigm of standalone missions.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2537/1

Planetary orbit insertion failures (part 2)
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In the conclusion of his two-part examination of planetary missions that failed to enter orbit as planned, Andrew LePage reviews four Mars missions by the US and former Soviet Union that failed to enter orbit as planned.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2536/1


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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