The Space Review Looks at ISS, Commercial Space and the Moon

International Space Station

In the Space Review this week:

• Roger Handberg examines the history of ISS and how, after nearly being discarded, it is getting a chance to realize its full potential.

• Daniel Handlin argues that increasing NASA’s reliance on the private sector and enhanced technology investment may simply repeat the mistakes of the past.

• NASA’s revised exploration plan all but ignores the Moon. Taylor Dinerman considers the prospects should other countries decide to devote their energies to lunar exploration, including establishing bases there.

• Jeff Foust reviews a book that succinctly examines the rationales and prospects for privatized spaceflight.