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

The Falcon and the showman

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If you were in downtown Washington last Thursday and thought you saw a 
rocket parked along Independence Avenue, you weren't hallucinating: 
SpaceX came to town to unveil its Falcon launcher.  Jeff Foust reports 
on the unveiling and the company's plans for its next launch vehicle.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/70/1
Photo Gallery: Falcon unveiling
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A collection of images from the December 4 unveiling of the Falcon 
launch vehicle in Washington, DC.
http://www.thespacereview.com/gallery/3
How important is the Moon?
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Recent speculation suggests that the US could be on the verge of going 
back to the Moon and establishing a base there.  Taylor Dinerman notes 
that such a base could have a strategic as well as a scientific role.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/69/1
The necessity of launch range upgrades
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Cape Canaveral is a venerable spaceport, but one that is also expensive 
and inflexible. Winston W. Gardner, Jr. argues that without critical 
upgrades, the Cape runs the risk of becoming obsolete.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/68/1
If you missed it, here's what we published last week:
Vision revision
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While nearly everyone agrees that the US needs a new "vision" for space, 
few can agree on what that vision should be.  Jeff Foust reports on a 
recent forum where the NASA administrator, members of Congress, and 
others shared their opinions on a space vision.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/67/1
Missile defense, RLVs, and the future of American spacepower
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One of the driving forces in the development of RLVs has been 
space-based missile defense designs.  Taylor Dinerman looks at how the 
two became intertwined and what the future prospects for both are.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/66/1
Some thoughts on Mars Direct
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Mars Direct has emerged as the leading architecture for human missions 
to Mars, but that doesn't mean that there's no room for improvement.  
David Boswell offers some suggestions for refining the design of Mars 
Direct.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/65/1
Next week: are suborbital RLVs a stepping stone to orbital vehicles or a 
dead end?  Also, a look inside the National Air and Space Museum's new 
Udvar-Hazy Center, home to the space shuttle Enterprise and other key 
aviation and space artifacts.
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_at_thespacereview.com
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