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


A decadal survey for human scientific exploration of space: a focus on discovery
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Winning broad support for human space exploration efforts, be they to the Moon, asteroids, or Mars, has long been challenging. Matt Greenhouse argues its time for human spaceflight at NASA to adopt the approach for choosing missions that has generated considerable success for the agency's science programs.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2451/1

Balancing safety and cost in commercial human spaceflight
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As companies develop commercial spacecraft to carry private citizens and NASA astronauts on suborbital and orbital flights, some worry that safety could be sacrificed to lower costs. Jeff Foust reports on the debate regarding NASA's commercial crew effort and a proposal to extend a "learning period" for commercial providers that limits FAA regulation.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2450/1

Why not return to the Moon? (part 2)
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In the second part of his examination of the future of lunar exploration, Anthony Young looks at a new NASA initiative to support commercial robotic lunar landers and the role it could play in stimulating later human missions back to the Moon.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2449/1

Review: X-15
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This year, rocket-powered winged vehicles will be flying in the skies above the Mojave Desert, as two commercial ventures test their vehicles. Jeff Foust reviews a book that looks back a half century to a time when another rocketplane flew as high, and far faster, in those same skies.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2448/1


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


Kepler's second act
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Last summer, NASA announced that the Kepler spacecraft could not continue its mission to look for exoplanets because of failed reaction wheels on the spacecraft. Jeff Foust reports on how the project is trying to bring new life to the spacecraft with an alternative mission, as other spacecraft seek to follow in Kepler's footsteps.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2447/1

Ranger: America's first successful lunar program
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As China's ongoing lunar mission, Chang'e-3, struggled with problems with its rover, it's worth remembering the problems early American lunar missions encountered. Andrew LePage examines the failure of a Ranger mission 50 years ago, and how it paved the way for successful missions that followed.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2446/1

Why not return to the Moon? (part 1)
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Four years ago, NASA set aside plans for a human return to the Moon in the foreseeable future in favor of expeditions to asteroids and Mars. In the first of a two-part article, Anthony Young reexamines the potential scientific, geopolitical, and commercial benefits of reconsidering human lunar exploration.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2445/1

Review: Challenger: An American Tragedy
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More than a quarter of a century after the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger, is there anything more that can be written about that fatal accident? Jeff Foust reviews a short ebook that does offer a new perspective from the person who was the voice of launch control.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2444/1


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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