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


Commercial crew's critical year
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NASA's commercial crew program is facing an important year in 2014, as it selects one or more companies for the next phase of development. Jeff Foust reports on the budgetary pressures the program is facing and one company's redoubled efforts to remain a part of the program.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2443/1

Achieving cheap access to space: the foundation of commercialization (part 2)
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In the concluding section of his book excerpt, Charles Miller discusses how competition and public private partnerships, key to early aviation a century ago, can help the US achieve cheap access to space.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2442/1

A brief look at the legal and political implications of Japan's space debris removal plans
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Japan is planning to demonstrate in orbit in the coming weeks an electromagnetic tether that could be used to help remove space debris. Michael Listner examines some of the legal and political issues associated with that effort that could pose challenges as great as any technical ones.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2441/1

Celebrating space
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This week is a somber one for many in the space community, given the confluence of the Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia anniversaries. Ken Murphy describes how the rest the the year offers more upbeat opportunities to commemorate and celebrate spaceflight.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2440/1

Review: Wheels Stop
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Two and a half years after the end of the last Space Shuttle mission, the program is firmly in NASA's past, even if it still casts a shadow on the agency today. Jeff Foust reviews a book that examines the history of the Shuttle program post-Challenger, with interviews of many of the astronauts who flew on those missions.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2439/1


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


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


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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