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Date: January 20, 2014 1:13:22 PM CST
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Welcome to this week's issue of The Space Review:


Achieving cheap access to space: the foundation of commercialization (part 1)
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Many people agree that low-cost space access is important to the future of spaceflight, but there's no consensus about how to achieve it. In the first of a two-part excerpt from a new book, Charles Miller looks back to the early history of aviation for lessons that can be applied to spaceflight.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2438/1

A blurred vision, but a persistent goal
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As many in the space community celebrated the final 2014 NASA budget last week, they overlooked a very different milestone: the tenth anniversary of the presidential speech announcing the Vision for Space Exploration. Jeff Foust looks back on than anniversary and how some are carrying on a goal that survived the Vision's demise: sending humans to Mars.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2437/1

Launch failures: normal, healthy paranoia
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To outsiders, those involved with launch campaigns can appeared obsessed with details to the point of paranoia. Wayne Eleazer discusses how this is a normal and even healthy attitude to take, given the hard lessons companies have learned over the years.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2436/1

Review: Safe Is Not an Option
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NASA officials and others frequently emphasize the priority safety has in human spaceflight. Jeff Foust reviews a book that makes the argument that safety is, in fact, being overemphasized at the expense of making significant progress in space exploration.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2435/1


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


Four more years: The US seeks to extend the ISS, but will its partners join?
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Last week, the White House and NASA announced that the US wants to operate the International Space Station to at least 2024, four years later than previously planned. Jeff Foust reports on the reaction to those plans both in the US and among the international partners, who have yet to agree to such an extension.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2434/1

Why greens should be pro-space
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A recent op-ed criticized space tourism for being environmentally unfriendly, with a carbon footprint per person much larger than for commercial aviation. Joe Mascaro makes the case that environmentalists should actually embrace the growing opportunities of commercial spaceflight.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2433/1

Doing the right thing when it's steamboat time
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Much of the criticism regarding the Space Launch System has been about its large size and cost. John Strickland argues that the true root of the SLS's costs is not that it's large, but that it is expendable, and thus unaffordable.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2432/1

The International Lunar Decade
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As more nations and companies show an interest in going to the Moon and making use of its resources, a regime to effectively govern access to those resources may be needed. Vid Beldavs discusses a proposal to study those resources and develop technologies to access them within the framework of an existing treaty.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2431/1


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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