Latest Space News - Echoes of Apollo

Spacecraft Orbiting Mars Suffers Malfunction;
Big Price Drop for Suborbital Spaceflights Foreseen By 2014;
New Mars Rover Takes First Drive … On Earth;
Summer Meteor Shower Season in Full Swing;
Neil Armstrong’s Travel Papers Allegedly Stolen By Customs Worker;
American Student-Built Rocket Wins International Contest.

Children Blast Off To The Moon At Summer Space Camp;
Caltech Team Finds Evidence Of Water In Moon Minerals;
Israel launches Ofeq-9 satellite;
NASA Goes Deep In Search Of Extreme Environments;
Clues To Origin Of Mysterious Dark Gamma-Ray Bursts;
Elusive Buckyballs Found In Space For First Time.

SDO – Solar Dynamics Observatory photo;
What are the biggest things in the universe?;
Apollo 11 moon landing film has sound restored;
Moon Rock Mineral Hints at Watery Lunar Past;
CryoSat-2 Returns First Data;
Toronto – Rare meteorite sliced open.

Space Samples Are Well Worth The Cost of Fetching say Researchers;
Zombie Satellite Forces More Evasive Maneuvers for Other Craft;
Saturn’s Moon Triggers Giant Snowballs in Planet’s Ring;
Sun’s Rumored Hidden Companion May Not Exist After All;
Moon-Shots: Apollo Astronauts Remember;
Astronomers Hunt for Ticking Time Bombs.

An Extra Quiet Sun;
Black Holes: Peering Into the Heart of Darkness (w/ Video);
New Spaceship Could Fly People to Private Space Stations;
New Planet-Hunting Method Could Find Earth-Like Alien Worlds;
Congress Proposes Commission to Study Asteroid Impact Threat;
Red Planet rover could emerge from slumber soon

US Senate panel votes to extend space shuttle program;
Russia To Start Testing New Angara Rocket In 2013;
Composite Image Of 2010 Eclipse;
Giant Antenna Propped Up And Ready For Joint Replacement;
New Private Spacesuit Unveiled With New York Flair;
Wind Cleans Solar Panels.

US Senate Panel Approves NASA Plans to Send Astronauts to Asteroid, Mars.
Scientists measure changing lake depths on Titan;
NASA Television Debuts Full-Time High Definition Channel;
NASA Thinks Big in Quest for New Space Technology;
Mercury Home to Violent Magnetic Storms, Ancient Volcanoes;
Astronauts to Congress: NASA Should Use Private Spaceships.

U.S. Open to Ideas for Limiting Space Weapons;
Image Gallery: Total Solar Eclipse of 2010;
Record-Breaking X-Ray Blast Blinds Space Observatory Briefly;
iant Stars Seem To Form Just Like Smaller Ones;
Taurus 2 rocket could launch astronaut crews from Florida;
Fuel tank for final space shuttle delivered

Orbital Debris Threatens Peaceful Use of Space, Group Tells U.N.;
In New Contests, NASA Invites Citizens To Design Robots and Satellites;
UK aerospace grows to £22bn on exports;
Report on controlling NASA mission costs;
Perturbing Discovery: Does an Exoplanet’s Orbital Oddity Reveal a Neighboring World?;
NASA Announces Three New Centennial Challenges;
NASA Selects Student Experiments For International Space Station

PSLV Launch Successful With 5 Satellites Placed In Orbit;
Origin Of Key Cosmic Explosions Still A Mystery;
Juno Armored Up To Go To Jupiter;
Black Hole Blows Big Bubble;
Faith Vilas To Lead Suborbital Observatory Project