Dateline July 20, 2006: Space News from the Internet

• Today is Apollo Day number 37 and the anniversary of the first Viking probe on Mars.
• China is planning deep space robotic exploration in the next five years. They are shooting for the Sun in 2012.
• SpaceX problem was with an aluminum nut on the fuel line.
• Astrobiology.net is up and running.
• For all of you (like me) who can't be in Vegas, the New Space Conference is going on as we speak.
• Integrated Powerhead Demonstration, or IPD has reached mainstage.
• Buzz Aldrin says we should reach the moon.
• What's going on a the Haughton-Mars Project Research Station.

(Thanks to Curmudgeons Corner, NASA Watch, SpaceToday, & SpaceRef)