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


Doing humans to Mars on -- and within -- a budget
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Recent studies have indicated you can either do human Mars missions in the 2030s with more money that NASA current receives, or wait until mid-century on NASA's current budget. Jeff Foust reports on a new study that finds, although with few details, that humans to Mars by the 2030s can fit within NASA's current budgets.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2726/1

"Moon to Moon to Mons": Synergies for Moon and Mars development
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The Moon, and the moons of Mars, have previously been proposed as key steps towards getting humans on Mars. Al Anzaldua and Dave Dunlop propose an approach that involves those bodies, as well as Martian volcanoes, as key steps in a sustainable long-term exploration strategy.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2725/1

Sarah Brightman chases her dream to the International Space Station
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Singer Sarah Brightman is in the midst of training for a September flight to the International Space Station as a space tourist. Anthony Young discusses her interest in spaceflight and her plans for her ten-day trip to space.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2724/1

The weird ones
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Launches can suffer from any number of conventional, well-known problems. But, as Wayne Eleazer recalls, there are plenty of, well, weird incidents involving launches and preparations for them.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2723/1


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


Discovery lives
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NASA received last month more than two dozen proposals for the next round of its Discovery program of low-cost planetary science missions. Jason Callahan examines what we know about the various mission concepts submitted and the implications for NASA's overall planetary science program.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2722/1

NASA rearms in its battle with mission skeptics
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Last week NASA announced that it had selected an option for its Asteroid Redirect Mission that involves collecting a boulder from an asteroid and returning it to cislunar space. Jeff Foust reports on the reasons why NASA selected that option and why skeptics of ARM in general appear unlikely to be won over.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2721/1

The Ides of Mars One
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Mars One, the private venture planning one-way human missions to Mars, has suffered from setbacks and bad publicity recently. Dwayne Day describes how one aspect of the venture's plan, the development of a reality TV show about the mission, would have been difficult to pull off even without the recent problems.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2720/1

India's indigenous satellite navigation system
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On Saturday, India launched the fourth in a series of navigation satellites, bringing the nation closer to offering a regional navigation system independent of GPS. Ajey Lele discusses India's system and why the country, like a number of others, is deciding to develop its own satellite navigation system.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2719/1

Review: The Science of Interstellar
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Several months after its theatrical release, the movie "Interstellar" will be available on DVD this week. With the risk of spoilers now subsided, Jeff Foust reviews a book that goes into detail about the science that formed the basis for the movie.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2718/1


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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