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Date: July 28, 2014 7:47:04 PM CDT
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Welcome to this week's issue of The Space Review:


Exploration and the private sector
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NASA is playing up its efforts to partner with companies as part of its plans for future human space exploration missions. Jeff Foust reports that while the private sector is open to such partnerships, one industry leader is looking at ways for the private sector to do human exploration on its own if NASA is unable to lead the way.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2567/1

Ear against the wall: The Manned Orbiting Laboratory and signals intelligence
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The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) planned to be a platform not just for imagery, but for other kinds of intelligence as well. Dwayne Day discusses what's know about plans to use MOL for those other applications.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2566/1

Vision 2069
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As the events surrounding the 45th anniversary of Apollo 11 wind down, some are already thinking of the 50th anniversary in 2019. Vid Beldavs argues that the best way to commemorate that anniversary is with activities not on Earth but on the Moon.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2565/1

Mad Men... in space
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When one TV show is a hit, it becomes a model for others that seek to follow in its footsteps. Dwayne Day describes an upcoming TV series about a generational starship that appears to take its cues from "Mad Men."
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2564/1

Review: Starlight Detectives
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Advanced in telescopes, detectors, and computers have allowed astronomers to make major advances in recent decades. Jeff Foust reviews a book that looks back to another revolutionary era in astronomy, when the then-new technologies of photography and spectroscopy changed the field.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2563/1


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


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


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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