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


1997, 2001, 1999: a science fiction calendar from the Apollo era
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As Apollo flew people to the Moon, the science fiction shows people watched on TV and at the movies painted a bright future for human spaceflight, but one in retrospect was wholly unrealistic. Andre Bormanis examines that disconnect between those visions of the future and what came to pass.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2796/1

Cutting the costs of a human return to the Moon
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Governments have largely deferred plans for human missions to the Moon, citing their cost, while private ventures offer more affordable concepts but struggle to raise funding. Jeff Foust reports on a new study that argues that a combination of the two, through public-private partnerships, could reduce the cost of human missions by as much as an order of magnitude.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2795/1

The mission of Zond 3
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Fifty years ago, the Soviet Union launched a spacecraft that flew past the far side of the Moon and into deep space. Andrew LePage describes the mission of Zond 3 and how it fit into Soviet plans for missions to Mars and Venus.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2794/1

Review: Seeing Like A Rover
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Operating Mars rovers is more complicated than simply driving across the terrain and collecting images and other scientific data. Jeff Foust reviews a book that offers a behind-the-scenes look at the operations of the Mars Exploration Rovers and how scientists analyze and manipulate the data those rovers have returned to better understand the Red Planet.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2793/1


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


They did it: New Horizons flies past Pluto
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On Tuesday, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto, collecting images and other data that it is slowly returning to Earth. Jeff Foust reports on the celebrations at the Applied Physics Lab that marked the successful flyby and the first look at images that are surprising the mission's science team.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2792/1

Flash foresight, hard trends, and commercial space business
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SpaceX's pursuit of reusable launch vehicles has prompted other companies to also study reusability. Anthony Young sees this as evidence of a "hard trend" that makes it all the more likely that reusability will become reality.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2791/1

Is "NewSpace" obsolete?
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For about a decade, commercial space advocates have been promoting the term "NewSpace" to describe a new wave of entrepreneurial space ventures. As those ventures now reach critical market and funding mass, Jeff Foust explains that some think the term may now be outdated in some respects.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2790/1

Review: How We'll Live on Mars
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As space agencies like NASA make long-term plans for human missions to Mars, some expect private ventures to get there faster. Jeff Foust reviews a book, patterned after a TED talk, that argues that SpaceX in particular could get there faster.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2789/1


We appreciate any feedback you may have about these articles as well as
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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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