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The Starship Enterprise is one of the best known science-fiction spaceships, but in Japan another vessel is just as famous. Dwayne Day examines the legacy of Space Battleship Yamato and explains how both it and the Enterprise illustrate how the US and Japan addressed their postwar legacies.

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The growth of the commercial space industry is seen by some as a way to help the US government to do more with less. Charles Galbreath discusses how commercial space capabilities, while offering benefits, also have some problems that must not be overlooked.

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Many in the public see space as primarily a playground for billionaires. Kelsie Goddard argues that while that reputation is not undeserved, the role of wealthy private actors in commercial space may signal a predictable stage of technological development rather than a dystopian one.

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In mid-August, NASA announced it was calling off an effort to reboost the orbit of its Swift space telescope because of problems with the commercial spacecraft launched to reboost it. Jeff Foust reports on the lessons both the company and the agency learned from that effort that could apply to future missions.

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During the final years of the Soviet Union, its policy of Perestroika opened up cooperation with the West on space missions. Louis Friedman reviews a book on the topic and some avenues of collaboration not included in the book.

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