Space Resources

See also Robert's Astronomy Resources.

Overview

• Latest News
• General Information (Generally Text based)
  • NASA
• Missions
  • Current Missions
  • Future Missions
  • Past Missions
    • Apollo
• Interest Groups
• Image Archives
• Software
  • Macintosh
  • X Windows
  • Windows
• Other Sites
• Miscellaneous

Latest News

• Next Shuttle Mission: STS-73

• Declassified Intelligence Satellite Photographs

• Images from STS-63 (the recent shuttle mission, including rendezvous with Mir)

• SSTO News: Will the White House support the X-33? (SSTO = Single Stage To Orbit)

• See also:
  • Jonathan's Space Report (weekly)
  • NASA HQ Newsroom and
  • NASA Hot Topics
  • Recent news from JPL

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General Information

• Space Calendar (Maintained by the ever helpful Ron Baalke.)

• This month in history and more history

• Listen to (and watch!) the shuttle over the Internet!

• FAQ of the sci.space newsgroup and Astro/Space frequently seen acronyms

• Humans in Space: Can human beings live and work in space?

• Basics of Spaceflight

• The most excellent Earth Viewer

• U.S. Space Camp

• Internet Talk Radio presents NASA's The Space Story from the Internet Multicasting Service. (The files are about 2.3Mb for four minutes of audio; see the FAQ for software to use.

• Earth Satellite Ephemeris Service for predicting visible overflights of satellites. Thanks to the Astronomy Program at Georgia State University.

• Aero & Space - The Comic Book was created in 1992 as a handout for middle school students (grades 6-9). The goal was to educate young people concerning the career possibilities within the aerospace industry.

• Feynman's Appendix to the Rogers Commission Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident

• "Highflight" The full text, and sad origin, of the poem whose lines were often quoted in memory of the Challenger Seven.

• Space Environment Effects and Interactions: The Basics, from the Space Environment Effects Branch.

• Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum

• Tethers for Space Propulsion Without Reaction Mass (Postscript, 28pp) A paper written by P. Douglas Reeder for his undergraduate thesis. Can serve as a free introduction to some tether theory.

• Orbital Settlements: Space for the Rest of Us

• list of selected Rand publications

• NASA
  • HQ Public Affaris Office
  • Space Science Education
  • Teacher Resource Centers
  • Spacelink (Role is to provide educational information.)
  • Mission Control Center (for manned spacecraft); includes the Flight Control Team (those guys you see on NASA TV all the time).
  • Exploration Server (Primarily Moon and Mars)
  • International Space Station Alpha Home Page
  • Shuttle Mission Press Kits
  • Frequently Asked Questions about the Space Shuttle Computers
  • Space Shuttle Communications Systems Overview
  • Orbiter Vehicles (Space Shuttles)
  • 1988 Shuttle News Reference Manual
  • NASA Astronaut Biographies
  • Dryden Research Aircraft Photo Archive
  • KC-135, Zero Gravity Trainer
  • Mission to Planet Earth
  • NASA/JPL Imaging Radar
  • Curator for Planetary Materials Samples
  • Internet Services

• European Space Agency

• United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

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Missions

• Buzz Aldrin's Space Watch A page put up in commemoration of the Apollo 11 25th anniversary.

• Current Missions
  • Galileo and Galileo NSSDC (NSSDC = National Space Science Data Center)
  • Ulysses and Mission Status Report #5
  • Voyagers 1 & 2
  • Pioneer 10 & 11

• Future Missions
  • Delta Clipper/SSRT Program (Single-Stage Rocket Technology) Information on an experimental prototype of a Singe-Stage To Orbit vehicle that could be a big part of the future of our space program, and which so far has been done for very little cost and on schedule.
  • The Martian Chronicle The Electronic Newsletter for Mars Exploration at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Mars Global Surveyor at JPL, MGS at Malin Space Science Systems, Inc., and MGS at NSSDC
  • Mars Pathfinder at JPL and Pathfinder at NSSDC
  • The Discovery Program Concept
  • Near Earth Asteroid Rendevous (NEAR) and NEAR at NSSDC
  • Cassini (Saturn)
  • Lunar Discovery Orbiter
  • Pluto Express (See also Pluto Fast Flyby)
  • JPL Space and Earth Science Programs Directorate
  • Stanford International Mars Mission The results of many years of study by Dr. Bruce Lusignan's graduate-level space systems engineering course in Stanford's School of Engineering.

• Past Missions
  • Magellan Venus Orbiter and Magellan at NSSDC (NSSDC = National Space Science Data Center)
  • Clementine and from Clementine NSSDC (NSSDC = National Space Science Data Center)
  • Malin Space Science Systems, Inc. has some information on Mars Observer
  • Viking
  • Apollo
    • Apollo 11 25th Anniversary
    • Apollo 11 Plans for Surface Photography
    • Catalog of Apollo Experiment Operations
    • EVA summary
  • Historical Archive at KSC (American manned missions.)
  • Phobos

• See also Planetary Science Spacecraft

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Interest Groups

• Space Studies Institute: completing the missing technological links to make possible the productive use of the abundant energy and material resources in space.

• Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)

• International Space University

• Should We Return to the Moon?: A World Wide Web Public Policy Forum

• Student Space Action

• Space Activism Home Page

• Planetary Society

• National Space Society (NSS)

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Image Archives

• The infamous Explorer, look in GIF and JPEG. Holds a lot of other good stuff too.
  An index to planetary images.

• JSC Digital Image Collection includes NASA Manned Mission Press Release Photos and Earth Observation Images (from manned missions).

• Declassified Intelligence Satellite Photographs

• Space Movie Archive

• Chesley Bonestell Art Gallery

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Software

• Macintosh
  • SatTrak 1.02
  • OrbiTrack 2.14
  • A-OK! The Wings of Mercury: A Mercury mission simulator

• X Windows
  • Xsat, a satellite tracking program for the X Window System.
    (the latest satellite elements)
  • SatTrack, a satellite tracking program for the X Window System.
    (the latest satellite elements)

• Windows/DOS
  • HomePlanet

  • PC-Track, for tracking satellites (DOS)

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Other Sites

• Science:Space from Yahoo

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Miscellaneous

• Department of Space Studies, Center for Aerospace Sciences, University of North Dakota

• International Small Satellite Organization's (ISSO) MicroSpace Network

• Space Exploration Collectibles and Merchandise

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May 23, 1995 - Robert Lentz (ralentz@ralentz.com)