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What We Are Reading

Key Reads   America Plays Russian Rocket Roulette Ron Wahid / Wall Street Journal The U.S. is hooked on Russian rocket engines for space launches. It is a dependence that sits awkwardly with America’s national-security launch program, which includes systems for...

What We Are Reading

International News Coverage Ebola Ebola could strike 20,000 in six weeks, ‘rumble on for years’: study Stephanie Nebehay and Tom Miles | Reuters The Ebola outbreak in West Africa could infect 20,000 people as soon as early November unless rigorous infection control...

U.S-Russian Tensions Reveal Weakness in Satellite Security

On June 5, Gwynne Shotwell, president and COO of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) spoke at the Atlantic Council on the current problems facing the U.S.  aerospace industry and how SpaceX is working to restore American primacy in space launch technology. Since...