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Subject: This Week in The Space Review - 2016 March 28
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This Week in The Space Review View this email in your browser This Week in The Space Review March 28, 2016 Welcome to The Space Review's weekly newsletter! Big Bird and the Big Mother: US intelligence community monitoring of the Soviet lunar program after Apollo Even after Apollo 11 successfully landed men on the Moon, ending the Moon race, the Soviet Union continued to develop its N-1 rocket for several years. Dwayne Day examines how the US monitored those activities using a new generation of reconnaissance satellites.   InSight's second chance A NASA mission to land on Mars was supposed to launch this month, but problems with an instrument cancelled those plans. Jeff Foust reports on plans to fix the problem and launch the mission in 2018, although with cost impacts that could affect other missions.   ExoMars: a long awaited reboot of the Russian planetary program Earlier this month, a Russian Proton rocket launched the ExoMars mission, a joint venture with Europe. Svetoslav Alexandrov discusses how ExoMars is revitalizing Russia's Mars exploration plans, although not in a way all Russian space enthusiasts support.   Improving South Asian space cooperation Pakistan recently rejected a proposal by India to provide a communications satellite to help a group of South Asian nations. Vidya Sagar Reddy examines what India should do to better promote space cooperation among its neighbors in the region.   Review: Blue Gemini What might have happened if the Air Force had continued its manned space program in the 1960s? David Johnston reviews a novel that offers a credible alternative history of those efforts.   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 Copyright © 2016 The Space Review, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you previously signed up to receive these weekly newsletters from The Space Review. Our mailing address is: The Space Review 12205 Village Square Ter Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences