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Apollo 13 Re-enactment on iPhone “MissionClock”
Mission Clock and Echoes of Apollo announce collaboration on Apollo 13 re-enactment on the 40th anniversary of Apollo 13’s historic flight.
Mission Clock is an amazing application for iPhone and other Apple units that support the app. and is available for a small fee on iTunes. Click here for the iTunes [...]

Moon Mission Crew Photos
Today we celebrate the brave crews of the Apollo moon missions and especially remember the ultimate sacrifices made due to the “Apollo 1″ fire.
Apollo 1
Apollo 1 is the name the Apollo mission that never flew. The command module was destroyed by fire during a training exercise on January 27, 1967 at Pad [...]

World Moon Bounce Day 2010
April 17th
Echoes of apollo are proud to announce the date of World Moon Bounce Day 2010. It is set to coincid with the 40th anniversary of Apollo 13’s return to earth and is scheduled for April 17th. Details are on our website at http://echoesofapollo.com/moon-bounce/
In Brief:
So what is moon bounce? Also known [...]

Stan Lebar Tribute Video from the Honeysuckle Creek Team
Stan Lebar, 1925 – 2009, served as Program Manager for the Westinghouse Apollo TV Camera Program.
His team built the first colour TV camera to be used in space, on Apollo 10. Cameras were also built for Apollos 11 to 14, Skylab and ASTP.
Stan is best remembered, however, [...]

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Special Feature – STARWALKER TV Interview

STARWALKER TV SHOW – Video – Dec 10th 2009

Become a STARWALKER. This video was from an interview on the Seven Network in Sydney Australia last week. Some new information about entering the show.

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Green meteor lights up night sky
www.telegraph.co.uk
A green meteor was seen over the Mojave [...]

Apollo Mission Facts.
Of course these facts are anything but trivial. They are a collection of random things that I have not published before – well most of them. Almost all of them were crucial components for a successful mission. Learn more about the can-do attitude that got the first humans to the moon 40 years [...]

Apollo Reentry Topic Heats Up
Recently we published a reader’s question about the returning Apollo space craft. Click here to read.
Our good friend John Sullivan commented: Wow that was GREAT stuff! The actual re-entry plane of Apollo was about 5 degrees, I think, as opposed to 0.5 degrees of the Shuttle. The faster, steeper approach of [...]

A Reader’s Questions about going to the Moon
One of our great Facebook friends, student Zeynep Tasci from Budapest Hungary asked:
“Why didn’t NASA have any spaceflight program to Moon after the Apollo program?”
EOA: Money – they achieved their goal of beating the USSR to the moon and the general public in the US lost interest in [...]

LCROSS was Not the First to Hit the Moon

You may be forgiven if you thought that the picture on the right was from LCROSS mission and dual impacts, but you would be wrong. Nor is it the impact of the sled used in the fun movie “Space Cowboys”. The image is from an impact experiment [...]

Apollo 12 Moon Dust Experiements
NOTE, this post has some errors and needs to be read with that in mind. I believe that they are especially in the NASA content. Please note the letter from Prof Brian O’Brien at the end of this post.
Moon Dust – it is a crucial part of what we must overcome [...]