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


The cosmos in a cornfield
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When it comes to space museums, people most likely think of the National Air and Space Museum or one of the NASA visitor centers. Dwayne Day describes the impressive collection of artifacts that can be found in a museum located right in the middle of the country.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2581/1

Alternative propulsion concepts power debate
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New propulsion technologies that promise to greatly reduce travel times would seem to be universally welcomed, but such concepts often get mired in debates about their feasibility. Jeff Foust reports on developments involving a couple of different proposals that have either been treated as revolutionary advances or dismissed as ineffective or even impossible.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2580/1

India's SAARC satellite proposal: a boost to a multilateral space agenda
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India's new prime minister recently proposed that India collaborate with other South Asian nations on a joint satellite program. Ajey Lele examines the potential benefits of such cooperation and how to best implement it.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2579/1

Review: Why Mars
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It's been nearly half a century since NASA first sent a spacecraft past the planet Mars. Jeff Foust reviews a book that offers a programmatic history of NASA's robotic Mars exploration effort, highlighting the ups and downs from the early Mariners through Curiosity and beyond.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2578/1


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


Small satellites, small launchers, big business?
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Interest in small satellites is bigger than ever before, given the numbers of such satellites launched and plans for future systems. Jeff Foust reports on what the future may hold for smallsat applications, and whether this growing demand could support development of dedicated smallsat launch systems.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2577/1

ARM and the Mars-Forward NASA
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NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) has been widely criticized as a "dead end" on the path towards eventual human missions to Mars. Martin Elvis argues that ARM is, in fact the best first step to demonstrate technologies needed for Mars and for other applications in space.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2576/1

The 2014 PPWT: a new draft but with the same and different problems
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In June, China and Russia introduced a new draft of a proposed treaty that would ban the placement of weapons in outer space. Michael Listner and Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan examine the proposal and find that it has many of the same issues and flaws as the earlier version.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2575/1

For the future of Mars exploration, the past is prologue
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As Curiosity enters its third year on Mars, several other missions are either en route to the planet or under development. Duane Hyland recaps the discussion about Mars exploration from two panels at a conference last week.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2574/1

Review: Mars Up Close
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Last week marked the second anniversary of the Curiosity's landing on Mars, a good opportunity to take stock of what it has done and what's coming up. Jeff Foust reviews a book by a science writer embedded with the project team that offers both interesting details and a broader perspective about both the mission and Mars exploration in general.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2573/1


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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