Space Related Web Sites
This page lists only related sites, www sites directly concerned with space
colonization are on the space settlement home page.
NASA Maintained Sites
Images
- Earth Views from Space Johnson Space
Center'sdatabase of acquired
imagery of Earth from Space.
- Google Moon. In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, use the google map interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbor.
- Images/Animations
A good source of graphics that might be used in Space simulations.
- NASA's Planetary Photojournal
has a large and growing number of planetary images. This might give you
some idea of the views available from future space colonies.
- TerraServer A huge repository
of aerial photographs and satellite images.
- Weather Satellite/Radar Images.
Includes images from a variety of satellites.
Education
- A list of colleges and universities offering space science and astronautic programs.
- Space related competitions for college and university students.
- Astrobiology An
online guide to the living universe.
- Artificial Gravity. A listing of published papers, software and related sites.
- Enter The Firing Room Have you ever wondered what it's like to be part of the team that launches the Space Shuttle? Enter the Firing Room and find out. Students get a chance to meet actual engineers through videos and biographies. Videos of astronauts are also featured on the site. After a virtual tour, students can test their knowledge by taking the Launch Simulation Quiz.
- Center for Advanced Studies in the Space Life Sciences. Overall goals are to increase awareness of the NASA Life Sciences Program within the basic science community, and to examine and discuss potential uses of microgravity and other aspects of space flight as probes to provide new insights to fundamental processes of importance to basic biology and medicine.
- Encyclopedia
Astronautica Lots of Space related and rocketry information.
- IAU: Minor Planet Center responsible for the efficient
collection, (computation,) checking and dissemination of astrometric observations and orbits for minor planets and
comets.
- Moonlink
The internet-based Space Education Program for NASA's Lunar Prospector
Mission.
- Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous First
spacecraft to orbit an asteroid, returning science data.
- Quest Provides support and services
for schools, teachers and students to fully utilize the Internet.
- Space Biology Whether you are an educator or a student, SpaceBio.net is the place to come for undergraduate space biology education. Throughout the site, you will find a large collection of downloadable materials organized by topic, profiles of publications and resources, annotated links to other sites, and information on education and training opportunities.
- Space Day - lots of classroom
activities for teachers.
- Space
Educators' Handbook - lots of classroom activities for teachers.
- SpaceLink An aeronautics
and space resource for educators.
- Space News has a educational site
for teachers and students.
- Space Place is designed to
introduce students and teachers to the latest and most advanced technology
being tested for use on space missions of the future.
- Student Space
Awareness University of Arizona student organization whose purpose is
to educate the public as to the values and benefits of the space program.
- Windows to the Universe
User-friendly learning system on the Earth and Space sciences.
- University of Wisconsin Space Resources. Includes course work on the Origin of the Solar System and Lunar Mining Concepts.
- University of Wisconsin Space Resources. Includes course work on, Getting there and Back and Fusion Rockets.
- University of Wisconsin Space Resources. Includes course work on, Potential Resources of Asteroids and Comets.
Space Transportation
- Andrew
Nowicki's launch systems book. This online book describes a large
number of mostly futuristic launch systems.
- Space Adventures. Includes training in zero gravity, on the edge of space and in the
hydrolab.
- Deep Space 1 JPL mission to validate
technologies that will pioneer the way for future spacecraft to have an
arsenal of technical capabilities for exploring the universe.
- NASA Shuttle Web - launch
status of current mission.
- KSC Launch Assessment ISS fabrication continues.
- X Prize Foundation $10 Million Competition
will award trophy to first spacecraft for sub-orbital flight.
Space Tourism
- Space Adventures Offers Private Voyage to the Moon. Space Adventures, Ltd., the world's leading space experiences company, announced today the availability of a commercial spaceflight to the far side of the moon.
- Space Adventures. Our mission is your space flight. Includes 3D animations of Soyuz docking to ISS.
- Space Tourism Society. The Space Tourism Society (STS) is a new not-for-profit society specifically focused on space tourism. Our goals: To conduct the research, build public desire, and acquire the financial and political power to make space tourism available to as many people as possible as soon as possible.
- Climbing the Sky. The dream of a Space Elevator is a monumental one. A vision that will futher space exploration and knowledge.
- Virgin Galactic. By the end of the decade, Virgin Galactic - the most exciting development in the story of modern space history - is planning to make it possible for almost anyone to visit the final frontier at an affordable price.
- Take a trip to weightlessness.
- The Universe Today.
Space exploration and astronomy news updated on a daily basis.
- Universe Today. 8/21/2001 Beyond Tito: Measuring the Demand for Space Tourism.
- Space Adventures. Welcome to the World's Leading Space Tourism Company.
- SpaceRef.Com A Space Reference site which includes updated space news.
- Space Technology List. Space Colonization related links.
- eSpaceTickets.com. Win a Trip to Outer Space.
- Space Cruiser will make it possible for ordinary citizens to go where only astronauts have ventured before.
- Bristol Spaceplanes Limited. Spearheading the space flight revolution.
Miscellaneous
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Author: Al Globus