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Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference – The Vehicles
Amnon I. Govrin writes about the Next Generation of spacecraft. His website can be found at: http://www.spacepirations.com
The First NSRC ended a few days ago after two and a half days packed with presentations, ranging from vehicles to researchers, from small companies to NASA. I learned a lot about the [...]

A Short Visit to (Analog) Mars
This story comes from contributor Amnon Govrin of Superior, CO, USA. He recently visited the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) and meet its 89th crew – Brian, Carla, Darrel, Kiri, Luis and Mike. You can visit this story on his blog by clicking here.   Here is his story:

While the space [...]

What Type of Space TV Show Would You Like to See?
Discussion Point: We discussed a reality TV show recently where the winners were sent into space. What other reality style TV shows would you like to see focusing on space flight? I remember one British show that tricked people into thinking they were in space, [...]

Would People Watch a Reality Astronaut TV Show?
Discussion Point: If an astronaut reality show makes it to TV in your country, will people in your country watch it? It would be a show that launches its winners into space as the ultimate prize. Robert Brand is the moderator for the session.
Omid Niroumandzade
I’m not a big [...]

Tell us about Your Space Program.
If you were President Obama with fiscal problems, what would you do with the US space program? Our readers comment:
Robert Brand
I would have done a similar job – delay the moon / mars, etc and invest in heavy lift. I am not sure I would have dumped Ares V, but [...]

What interests You Most? Space or Science (in Space)?
Is it the space in the science or the science in space that has you hooked or is it something else? Raluca Yumisashi says “no matter how much I try, Space comes first ” Kristina Lovrek says “To me it’s science first… mainly because I’m a [...]

Moon Dish Rescue – TV Story

Here is a TV story started by Echoes of Apollo talking about the closure of the NASA dish that brought the world the images of Neil Armstrong first steps walking on the moon.  We are trying to get NASA to pause their actions that will see the dish turned into [...]

This Week’s Stories Discussed
The following stories are discussed by our readers on Facebook. These are posted as anonymous names. Robert Brand of Echoes of Apollo is our resident space science expert. If you have questions, please ask him.
A Chinese space odyssey
China’s ambitions to conquer space will take a big leap forward this year, as [...]

The Ethics of  Teleportation
Today, we thought that Echoes of Apollo would do something a little different. Here is a transcript of a recent discussion on “teleportation”. It is an interesting ethical problem whether you are religious of not. We believe that it is worthy of inclusion on our pages as ethics is a large part [...]

Can we Collide with Planet X in 2012?
Our Facebook pages have been pretty active lately with a few comments from people about the possibility of a collision with another large body in space such as the legendary Planet X – a wayward planet that swings in occasionally from the outer reaches of our solar system. [...]