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


The Moon in the crosshairs: CIA monitoring of the Soviet manned lunar program (part 1)
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With the declassification of more records, we are gaining a better idea of how much the CIA knew about the Soviet human spaceflight program, and when. Dwayne Day looks at those documents to see how the CIA tracked the development of a Soviet program to send humans to the Moon.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2885/1

Launch failures: the predictables
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Launch failures always come as a surprise, but some failures were, in retrospect, more predictable and preventable than others. Wayne Eleazer discusses some of those failures and how warning signs leading up to them were overlooked.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2884/1

Staking a claim to space resources
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A small portion of a new commercial space law, dealing with space resources, has gotten an outsized degree of attention in recent weeks. Jeff Foust reports on the issues some have raised with that section of the bill and how US industry and government officials are defending it.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2883/1

Powering a Moon base through the lunar night
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One of the major challenges to supporting a lunar base is keeping it powered during the two-week lunar night. Joseph Barrett Bland, Michael Abramson, and Roger Arnold explore concepts for doing so using various beamed power approaches.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2882/1

Review: Emblems of Exploration
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NASA is famous for its logos, including the "meatball" and the "worm." Jeff Foust reviews a book that provides a history of NASA's insignia, including that developed by its predecessor, NACA.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2881/1


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


Cygnus flies again
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On Sunday, an Atlas V rocket successfully launched a Cygnus cargo spacecraft, the first mission to the space station for that spacecraft since a launch failure more than a year ago. Jeff Foust reports on the launch, the preparations for it at Orbital ATK, and the cargo it's delivering to the station.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2880/1

The Big G
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Before NASA decided to develop the Space Shuttle, McDonnell Douglas proposed to NASA an enlarged variant of its Gemini spacecraft. Dwayne Day examines the "Big G" spacecraft concept studied in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2879/1

Prospects for US-China space cooperation
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NASA's ability to cooperate with China is hamstrung by law that limits bilateral cooperation or even discussions without Congressional permission. Vid Beldavs argues that this prohibition should be lifted in order for the US to tap the growing capabilities of China and other emerging space powers.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2878/1

Spurring commercial human spaceflight to the Moon
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A new law offers American companies more rights and fewer restrictions for their commercial space activities, even as it's being pressed by NASA to take on a bigger role in human spaceflight. Vidya Sagar Reddy examines if these factors can create a commercially-led human return to the Moon.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2877/1

Review: Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age
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A ongoing exhibition in London offers the prospect of seeing Soviet-era space hardware that is rarely, if ever, placed on public display. Jeff Foust takes a look at the exhibition and the message it offers about Soviet space ambitions.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2876/1


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Until next week,

Jeff Foust
Editor, The Space Review
jeff@thespacereview.com
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