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Date: February 16, 2015 at 1:30:01 PM CST
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Welcome to this week's issue of The Space Review:


Reusability revival
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Launch companies that once dismissed reusability as neither feasible nor economically viable are thinking twice as SpaceX makes progress towards recovering and reusing its Falcon 9 first stage. Jeff Foust reports on SpaceX's latest tests and what the head of another launch company now thinks about reusability.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2696/1

The stratosphere and suborbit: shirtsleeves or pressure suits?
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Should people flying on suborbital vehicles wear pressure suits as protection from a decompression event? Anthony Young examines the historical record to weigh the benefits and drawbacks of using pressure suits.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2695/1

Discoveries or inventions: the case for industrial property in space
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Is simply exposing an organism or substance to the space environment sufficient to patent what results? Kamil Muzyka explores what patent law says about the ability to protect intellectual property resulting from commercial activities in space.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2694/1

Review: Rockets and Revolution
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Long before Sputnik, engineers were studying spaceflight, which was also influencing, and being influenced by, broader culture. Jeff Foust reviews a book that examines the cultural history of early spaceflight in America, Europe, and Russia.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2693/1


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


Commercial space exploration: no longer an oxymoron!
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Last month, the X PRIZE Foundation awarded more than $5 million to five teams competing in the Google Lunar X PRIZE for milestones they achieved getting their landers ready for flight. Derek Webber, one of the judges of those prizes, argues that these prizes are themselves a milestone for a more commercial approach for space exploration.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2692/1

The gift of a Europa mission may have a cost
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NASA's 2016 budget proposal, released last week, included plans to formally start work on a project to send a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa. Jeff Foust reports that while this is good news for mission advocates, that decision could have a funding catch.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2691/1

A new way of financing spaceflight
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The last few years has seen a surge of interest in alternative "cryptocurrencies" like bitcoin. Petr Konupek examines whether a similar alterative currency might stimulate spaceflight.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2690/1

Review: How to Build a Universe
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Communicating the complex and even counterintuitive history of the universe to general audiences can be a challenge. Jeff Foust reviews a book that makes an attempt to do so through a combination of distinctive graphics and a lively writing style.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2689/1


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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