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


The dog days of summer launch debates
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Two of the key issues surrounding access to space in the US this year have been reliance on the Russian-built RD-180 engine and a dispute between the Air Force and SpaceX. Jeff Foust reports that, despite a number of hearings and other events, there's no clear resolution to either issue on the horizon.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2562/1

A generational opportunity for Europa
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While interest in a mission to Jupiter's icy, and potentially habitable, moon Europa is growing, funding for such a mission has been lacking in NASA's budget requests. Casey Dreier argues that a Europa mission could, in fact, solve several of the problems NASA is facing today.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2561/1

Heavy glass: The KH-10 DORIAN reconnaissance system
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The main purpose of the Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory was to conduct reconnaissance using a very high resolution camera system. Dwayne Day examines how that system would have worked, had MOL not been cancelled 45 years ago.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2560/1

"A little bit of bedlam": An interview with Neil Armstrong
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This year is the first major Apollo 11 anniversary since the passing of Neil Armstrong in 2012. Neil McAleer recounts an interview he did with Armstrong 25 years ago to discuss the astronaut's relationship with a famous science fiction writer.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2559/1

New Fort Knox: A means to a solar-system-wide economy
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While space advocates are never short of bold visions for future space development projects, funding them has long been a major challenge. Richard Godwin offers one approach to bootstrap long-term use of space resources though smaller initial steps and a key financial measure.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2558/1

Review: No Requiem for the Space Age
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Forty-five years after Apollo 11, people still contemplate why that historic mission didn't open a new era of space exploration. Jeff Foust reviews a book that argues that Apollo, and human space exploration, were victims of a change in cultures in America at the time of the Moon landing.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2557/1


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


Spinning to Mars
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Thirty years ago, scientists and Mars exploration advocates finished the second Case for Mars conference, where participants designed a spacecraft that could carry people to Mars. Dwayne Day examines what happened to that design, including a model that is back on display at the National Air and Space Museum.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2556/1

Getting to love logistics on the space station
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On Sunday, an Antares rocket launched a Cygnus spacecraft on a mission to deliver cargo, from food to smallsats, to the ISS. Jeff Foust reports on the launch and the challenges NASA and its industry partners are overcoming to establish a regular supply chain to the station.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2555/1

Kidnapping a Soviet space station
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A documentary produced by the television studio of the Russian space agency Roscosmos claims that the US attempted to retrieve the Salyut-7 space station in the mid-1980s. Bart Hendrickx discusses the documentary and debunks its claims.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2554/1

Big Black Bird
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Forty-five years after its cancellation, new details are coming to light about the Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) program. Dwayne Day gives an overview of what we know about MOL and how it lost out to robotic reconnaissance satellite programs.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2553/1

Boy Scout space exploration
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What can space advocates do to help inspire the next generation of space enthusiasts and professionals? Ken Murphy describes how one National Space Society chapter updated a guide to space exploration that will be read by thousands of Boy Scouts.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2552/1

Review: Bold They Rise
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This month marks the third anniversary of the final flight of the Space Shuttle program. Jeff Foust reviews a book that looks at the early history of the shuttle as seen through the eyes of many of the astronauts who flew on it.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2551/1


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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