Astronauts

Ask An Astronaut - want to know how to go to the bathroom in space? Here is a free forum where you can get your questions answered by the astronauts.

Astronaut Connection - featuring a different astronaut every month, trade messages, chat, merchandise/collectibles, cruise, hot list.

Astronaut Resources - deals with astronaut training, astronaut candidate selection, and related topics.

Astronauts - PBS companion site provides information on the astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour, and a background on the mission.

NASA Astronaut Biographies

NASA Astronaut Fact Book - comprehensive souce of related data and statistics.

They Shot For the Moon - collection of astronaut photographs personally autographed to the artist. Features the crew of Apollo XI, Jim Lovell, Ed White and others.

U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame - dedicated exclusively to telling the stories of America's astronauts.

Exploration

Field Guide to American Spacecraft - find the locations of America's spacecraft.

Liftoff to Space Exploration - current news and information from the Mission Operations Laboratory, which was created to maximize the success of NASA's scientific missions.

Open Your Eyes - information on space exploration.

Space Exploration - past, present, and future space exploration.

Space No Space - just how far have we advanced in space travel in 30 years?

Spaceport, The - dedicated to the Exploration of Space. We have space pics, movies, sounds, plus book reviews and links.

Terra SpaceDock - listing current and upcoming events in space exploration.

 

Past Missions

History of Space Exploration - Apollo, Mariner, Mars missions, and more.

History of the Delta Launch Vehicle - from the Thor-Delta (1960) to the present day Delta II.

Igor's Space Travel and Exploration History Page

Oral History on Science, Space, and Technology - an online catalog of the contents of oral history projects conducted between 1981 and 1990.

Race Into Space - includes the history of the lunar race, Vostok, Apollo, Soyuz, satellites, rockets, and other spacecraft.

Space History Hyperlinked - links to space history sites.

Space: History and Timeline - hypertext timeline of space history.

Sputnik - a look back at Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, forty years later. Reprinted articles from the New York Times.

This Week in Space History

Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) - designed to test the compatibility of rendezvous and docking systems for American and Soviet spacecraft, to open the way for international space rescue as well as future joint manned flights.

Aragatz - French-Russian cooperative manned missions.

Neurolab - a NASA Space Shuttle payload mission which focuses on the neurological system and how it responds to the challenges of space flight.

Index - Historical Archive - space history and manned missions.

Project Skylab

Current Missions

Space Station Mir

Mir Interactive Display - learn about each of Mir's modules.

MIR Russian Space Station News - includes links to RealAudio and RealVideo feeds.

Mir Space Station - news, research, history, images, and links.

MIR Space Station

Mir Space Station Observing - includes general news and information, and what to see.

MIR Station - information from the Russian Space Agency.

NASA Shuttle-Mir Web - official NASA site for U.S. astronauts and their activities aboard the Russian Mir Space Station.

Scientific American Frontiers: From Mir to Mars - featuring a live Webcast interview between NASA astronaut Andy Thomas on Mir and host Alan Alda on Earth.

Space Station Mir - pictures, information, and links.

 

The Space Shuttle

Shuttle Web - Information on all NASA shuttle flights with live audio and video feedback and sighting opportunities

TSE: The Space Experience - a look at past and future Space Shuttle missions.

Dan Harmon's Space Shuttle Page - weights, measures, pictures, takeoff sequence, etc.

Hot Topic: Space Shuttle

Orbiter Vehicles

Can the Shuttle Cause Long Term Atmospheric Pollution?

Space Shuttle Clickable Map - currently, the clickable zones include the external tank, solid rocket boosters, space shuttle main engines, cargo bay, and crew compartments.

Space Shuttle Monitor - An auto-refreshing series of pages of current status, Nasa-TV, space shuttle current location, sighting opportunities, and more.

Space Shuttle News Reference Manual

Space Shuttle Overview - Flight hardware for the Space Shuttle is manufactured at many locations around the United States by NASA prime contractors and subcontractors.

Space Shuttle Photographs Repository

Ststle.org - satellite tracking and space shuttle mission data.

United Space Alliance - joint venture between Lockheed and Rockwell which performs space shuttle launch and landing activities at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and flight operations in Houston.

Future Missions

RLV (Reusable Launch Venicle)

RLV Technology Program

Single Stage Rocket Technology (SSRT) - learn about the effort to develop a single stage, fully reuseable launch vehicle.

Space Vehicles Directorate - Air Force Research Laboratory

NASA's X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle Program

VentureStar X-33 Program - developing the X-33 prototype reusable launch vehicle in conjunction with NASA, Rocketdyne, and other industry leaders.

X-33 - demonstrating the key design and operational aspects of a Single Stage to Orbit (SSTO) Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) rocket system.

X-34 Program - flight demonstration of key reusable launch vehicle operations and technologies directed at the RLV goals of low-cost space access and commercial space launch competitiveness.

X-38

X-38 Technology - project to develop the technology for a prototype emergency crew return vehicle (CRV), or lifeboat, for the International Space Station (ISS).

The International Space Station

International Space Station - Official NASA page.

International Space Station [Marshall Space Flight Center]

MAGIK Robotic Assembly Analysis - robotic assembly analysis for the International Space Station.

Space Station Biological Research Facility - covers diverse topics for research consideration aboard the International Space Station. Learn what researchers will discover from experiments in microgravity.