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Date: June 15, 2015 at 1:34:47 PM CDT
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Welcome to this week's issue of The Space Review:


Deep in space, corner of No and Where
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In a month, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will fly past the dwarf planet Pluto, the first spacecraft to visit this distant world. Dwayne Day ponders the effect the spacecraft flyby will have not just on science, but culture and policy as well.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2772/1

The commercial crew crunch
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While NASA has argued it needs full funding for its commercial crew program to keep it on schedule for first flights in 2017, House and Senate appropriations bills cut the request by hundreds of millions of dollars. Jeff Foust reports on the disconnect and its implications for the agency and the two companies under contract.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2771/1

Legal implications of an encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence
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In the event that humans detect a signal from an extraterrestrial intelligence, or the more unlikely event of a physical encounter with them, how would the legal system be prepared to deal with repercussions? Babak Shakouri Hassanabadi discusses how existing treaties and interpretations of international law might apply in such scenarios.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2770/1

Review: Operation Paperclip
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Many of the German engineers who were at the core of America's early space program came over after World War II in an effort called Operation Paperclip. Michael Neufeld reviews a book that offers a dramatic, but flawed, history of that program.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2769/1


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


Planning the proving ground of cislunar space
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NASA is clear about its long-term goal of human spaceflight -- sending humans to Mars -- but has been vague about the next steps beyond low Earth orbit to achieve that goal. Jeff Foust reports how NASA, working with companies and potential international partners, is starting to look at a series of missions in cislunar space in the 2020s as those next steps.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2768/1

How military space programs need to deal with change
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America's lead in military space capabilities is threatened by a number of internal and external factors. Tom Taverney discusses what those factors are and what the US needs to do to overcome them.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2767/1

How much money would it take to launch enterprise into space?
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Estimates of the cost of a NASA Mars mission for six astronauts are north of $100 billion. Sam Dinkin wonders how this cost estimate would change if reusable rocket launches cost what SpaceX predicts they will.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2766/1

Review: We Could Not Fail
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Fifty years ago, NASA was racing to the Moon while the civil rights movement was unfolding. Jeff Foust reviews a book that examines the complex ways that the two efforts interacted as NASA sought to bring more African Americans into its workforce.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2765/1


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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