http://echoesofapollo.com Celebrating the past, living the present and promoting the future of Space - Space News Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:06:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://echoesofapollo.com/2012/02/03/echoes-of-apollo-update-2/ http://echoesofapollo.com/2012/02/03/echoes-of-apollo-update-2/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:06:19 +0000 Robert Brand http://echoesofapollo.com/?p=4356 http://echoesofapollo.com/2012/02/03/echoes-of-apollo-update-2/feed/ 0 http://echoesofapollo.com/2012/02/03/a-hunger-for-a-unification-theory/ http://echoesofapollo.com/2012/02/03/a-hunger-for-a-unification-theory/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:54:29 +0000 Robert Brand http://echoesofapollo.com/?p=4348 http://echoesofapollo.com/2012/02/03/a-hunger-for-a-unification-theory/feed/ 0 http://echoesofapollo.com/2011/10/06/latest-space-news-2011-10-06/ http://echoesofapollo.com/2011/10/06/latest-space-news-2011-10-06/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:25:06 +0000 Robert Brand http://echoesofapollo.com/?p=4345 NASA's Meteoroid and Orbital Debris Programs; NASA Announces News Briefing On Next Earth Science Launch; NASA Takes Oct. 8 Moon Event to an International Level; You've Got Asteroids: Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan Reborn As Space ...; Did Earth's oceans come from comets?; 3 Weird Alien Planets Found Around Sun-Like Star; Super-Old Supernovas Spotted Across the Universe; Huge Mars Crater an 'Intriguing' Target for Next NASA Rover; Molecular Cloud Cepheus B Is a Hot Spot for Star Formation [...]]]> http://echoesofapollo.com/2011/10/06/latest-space-news-2011-10-06/feed/ 0 http://echoesofapollo.com/2011/10/06/latest-space-news-2011-10-05/ http://echoesofapollo.com/2011/10/06/latest-space-news-2011-10-05/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:30:58 +0000 Robert Brand http://echoesofapollo.com/?p=4341 NASA's new plan for massive rocket greeted with enthusiasm, criticism; ESA spacecraft reveal new anatomy around a black hole; Enceladus Weather Includes Snow Flurries; Extreme Space Weather at Mercury Blasts the Planet's Poles; Draconid Meteor Outburst; Arianespace to launch Mexican satellite Mexsat 3; The Strange Attraction of Gale Crater; NASA's Next Generation Spacecraft Brought to Life by a New Generation of Students; Space Telescopes Reveal Secrets of Turbulent Black Hole; Weird Exoplanetary System Dances to the Beat; The Most Distant and Ancient Supernovae In The Young Universe; First Vega starts journey to Europe's Spaceport; Pack Your Skis for Saturn's Enceladus; NASA, Google, and Lenovo Team Up for Space Station Educational Project [...]]]> http://echoesofapollo.com/2011/10/06/latest-space-news-2011-10-05/feed/ 0 http://echoesofapollo.com/2011/10/05/pluscomms-to-open-new-us-hosting-site/ http://echoesofapollo.com/2011/10/05/pluscomms-to-open-new-us-hosting-site/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:08:22 +0000 Robert Brand http://echoesofapollo.com/?p=4334 http://echoesofapollo.com/2011/10/05/pluscomms-to-open-new-us-hosting-site/feed/ 1 http://echoesofapollo.com/2011/10/05/latest-space-news-2011-10-04/ http://echoesofapollo.com/2011/10/05/latest-space-news-2011-10-04/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:55:11 +0000 Robert Brand http://echoesofapollo.com/?p=4331 NASA Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report 4 October 2011; Saturn's Geyser Moon Enceladus Shows off for NASA's Cassini; Saul Perlmutter Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics; NASA Ames to Celebrate Moon at Festive Event; Explosive Studies of Universe's Expansion Win Nobel Prize i...; NASA to Kids: Name Our Twin Moon Gravity Probes; To Deflect Killer Asteroids, Humanity Must Work Together; Weird Bubble-Blowing Dwarf Galaxy Spotted by Hubble Telescope; EDRS: an independent data-relay system for Europe becoming reality; NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Studies Rock Interior; Obama under fire over space plans. 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Skywatcher Photographs Huge Solar Flare from Giant Sun... 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Harvard's Sasselov says "Yes"; See what NASA is asking for in privatized crew taxis; ISS-bound astronauts confident in Russian launch system. 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