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


The Moon in the crosshairs (part 2)
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Dwayne Day continues his examination of CIA monitoring of the Soviet Union's manned lunar program by reviewing what the CIA learned of Soviet development of the N-1 rocket and its launch site from 1965 to 1968.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2889/1

A little something for almost everyone
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Congress passed a final appropriations bill for fiscal year 2016 last week, giving NASA nearly $19.3 billion, more than $750 million than requested. Jeff Foust analyzes the budget and finds that, at least for this year, there are far more winners than losers among the agency's programs.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2888/1

Space commercialization: finally ready for liftoff?
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The promise of a rapid expansion of commercial space activities has existed for years, but has it finally arrived? Jonathan Coopersmith examines the prospects for greater commercial uses of space based on discussions at a recent conference.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2887/1

GPS origins myths as propounded by Stephen Johnson and Annie Jacobsen
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The Global Positioning System is one of the most commonly-used space-based services today, but its history is often misrepresented. Richard Easton takes issue with how the development of GPS is portrayed in two recent books.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2886/1

Note: The Space Review will not publish the week of December 28. Our next issue will be Monday, January 4, 2016. Happy Holidays!


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


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


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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