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


Science and the ARM
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NASA's plans to redirect an asteroid into cislunar space and sending astronauts to it would seme like something that would excite planetary scientists, given the prospects of returning large amounts of samples from that asteroid. However, Jeff Foust reports, some are worried about the challenges such a mission faces and the priority science would have on it.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2332/1

You've come a long way, baby!
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Fifty-one years ago this week, Congress held hearings on whether women should be astronauts. Dwayne Day looks back at this key turning point in the debate about whether women should fly in space, in light of a letter from that era now making the rounds online.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2331/1

Revisiting SLS/Orion launch costs
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NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket continues to receive scrutiny in some quarters because of concerns about just how affordable the vehicle will be. John Strickland examines the costs of SLS in light of recent developments that suggest the vehicle could have a very low flight rate.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2330/1

The Chief Technologist's view of the HGS-1 mission
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Jerry Salvatore, former chief technologist with Hughes, offers his own understanding of the facts surrounding who was involved in, and should get credit for, the rescue of the AsiaSat 3 satellite by the company 15 years ago.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2329/1

Stimulating greater use of the ISS
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As researchers meet this week to discuss research on the International Space Station, NASA and the organization that manages ISS research are being pressed to make greater use of the station's facilities. Jeff Foust reviews those challenges and the efforts of one startup company that believes its research could have a significant commercial payoff.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2328/1


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


Things that go boom in the night
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Last week a Proton rocket malfunctioned and crashed spectacularly, an incident immediately known to the general public.  Dwayne Day looks at a previous launch accident what was not immediately acknowledged by the Soviets but noticed by the American intelligence community.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2327/1

Mist around the CZ-3B disaster (part 2)
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In the conclusion of his two-part article, Chen Lan examines exactly where the Long March 3B rocket crashed in February 1996 and whether the crash could have caused the large death toll that many in the West have speculated.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2326/1

An alternative view of the HGS-1 salvage mission
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Mark Skidmore, the Hughes program manager for the HGS-1 satellite recovery effort 15 years ago, offers a different recollection of some of the key events in that program than what was published in a recent essay here.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2325/1

Review: Spacefarers
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The perceptions of astronauts and cosmonauts have evolved over time, along with who was considered eligible to fly in space. Jeff Foust reviews a book that offers a collection of historical essays on the "heroic era" of human spaceflight early in the Space Age.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2324/1


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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