This week in The Space Review:
Death from the skies? Ho-hum.
A new report last week suggested that near Earth object survey efforts require significant additional funding. Jeff Foust examines why the relative lack of money so far may in fact be a rational decision, and what could be done to improve their funding prospects.
The EMP threat: fact, fiction, and response (part 1)
Electromagnetic pulses, with their ability to destroy electronics and disrupt the power grid, are closely associated with nuclear weapons, but such phenomena can also be created by geomagnetic storms. In the first of a two-part article, Yousaf Butt provides a primer on EMP and how serious a threat weapons-generated pulses are.
Review: One Small Step
Another book about the history of the space age? Jeff Foust reviews a book that claims to offer the “inside story†about the history of human spaceflight.