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


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


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


Mist around the CZ-3B disaster (part 1)
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Over 15 years ago, a Chinese Long March rocket went off course seconds after liftoff, crashing not far from the launch site and, according to some accounts, killing many people. In the first of a two part article, Chen Lan examines what we have learned about that accident since 1996.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2323/1

Smallsat constellations: the killer app?
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Interest in smallsats is rising as such spacecraft become more capable, but finding applications for them that will generate significant demand has been a challenge. Jeff Foust reports on how two companies, including one that announced its plans last week, are seeking to fly fleets of such satellites for Earth imaging applications.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2322/1

Conflating space exploration and commercialization: coverage of PayPal's announcement
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Last week, electronic banking company PayPal announced, to some surprise, that it was kicking off an initiative to study how to perform financial transactions in space. John Hickman takes issue with the lack of critical reporting about the announcement in the press, especially those who confused space commercialization with space exploration.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2321/1

Life and death and ice
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Although it won't be in theaters until August, the sci-fi movie Europa Report is available now via video on demand. Dwayne Day watched the movie and describes an interesting and thought-provoking film about a human mission to Europa.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2320/1

Review: The Astronaut Wives Club
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In the early Space Age, the women married to NASA's first astronauts were, in public, the ideal housewives who cheerfully supported their husbands' dangerous journeys into space. Jeff Foust reviews a new book the describes the private struggles these women faced dealing with the unique stress of their situation.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2319/1


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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