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


The mission of Zond 2
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Fifty years ago this week, the Soviets declared a mysterious Mars-bound mission called Zond 2 a failure. Andrew LePage examines the history of the program to uncover what Zond 2's mission really was.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2745/1

Antares and SpaceShipTwo, six months later
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Six months ago, the commercial spaceflight industry suffered a double dose of accidents, just days apart. Jeff Foust reports on the progress made in the investigations of the Antares and SpaceShipTwo failures, and plans for them to resume flights.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2744/1

The future and the past: comparing Dragon and Orion
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On Wednesday, SpaceX is scheduled to perform a pad abort test of the crewed version of its Dragon spacecraft it is developing as part of NASA's commercial crew program. Rick Boozer compares the capabilities of Dragon with NASA's own Orion spacecraft.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2743/1

Renewing India's space vision: a necessity or luxury?
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India's space program has achieved a number of major milestones in recent years, but still is a secondary player in the global space field. Narayan Prasad and Prateep Basu argue that India needs to encourage entrepreneurial space activities and better delineate civil and military space applications to further grow its space industry and be more competitive in the global market.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2742/1

Review: Exploration and Engineering
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NASA's program of robotic Mars missions has produced tremendous successes and embarrassing failures in the last quarter-century. Jeff Foust reviews a book that offers a comprehensive history of that era of Mars exploration, examining the challenges that even the most successful missions had to overcome.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2741/1


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


On Hubble's 25th, looking at the next 25 years
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NASA celebrated last week the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, looking back on the scientific accomplishments of that famous space telescope. Jeff Foust reports on what the next 25 years in space astronomy might look like beyond Hubble.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2740/1

Commercial Lunar Transportation Services: a speculation
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There remains interest in carrying out human missions to the surface of the Moon, even though that is not an official goal of the Obama Administration. Anthony Young discusses how a commercial model for lunar transportation, based on the COTS and commercial crew programs, might be the most cost-effective, and perhaps the only, way to carry out such missions.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2739/1

Humans to Mars: further delay undermines support
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Recent proposals have offered missions architectures to get humans to the vicinity of Mars, if not necessarily on the surface of the planet, by some time in the 2030s. Joe Webster argues that to maintain public support, those timelines need to be accelerated with a modest amount of additional funding.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2738/1

Battle of the Collossi: SLS vs Falcon Heavy
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Many in the space community like to debate the merits of two heavy-lift vehicles under development, NASA's SLS and SpaceX's Falcon Heavy. Dale Skran offers a tale of the tape of the two heavyweights, comparing their planned capabilities and costs.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2737/1


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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