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Space

Space Shuttle Launch Schedule: Details of shuttle missions including astronaut bios, mission explanations, previous missions and more. Plus links. (*Note: NASA is reorganizing its online-self and as soon as I put in a link, NASA changes the address. If the link is inoperable, try this one for the Mixed Fleet launch.)

U.S. Staffed Space Flights: Brief history of the U.S. Space Program. Lots of details like dates that make it quite helpful. From Information Please.

Soviet Staffed Space Flight Programs: Brief history of Soviet/Russian space program. From Information Please.

NASA home page: The U.S. space agency's home on the Web with news and links.

NASA Human Spaceflight: The official Web home for shuttle, shuttle-Mir and space station news. NASA recently combined three Web sites into this one.

NASA-Office of Space Flight-Mir: Information on Russia's Mir space station from NASA.

Russian Aerospace Guide: Lots of detailed information about Mir's construction and past missions and experiments. Not updated recently, but interesting. Has links.

SETI Links: Links page to sites about SETI -- Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Most are research projects conducted by universities. The official site is here: The SETI Institute, which is where you can get set up for the SETI@home project on your home computer to help researchers listen for life in space. Very cool and informative.

European Space Agency: The official ESA Web site contains information about its various programs.

The Nine Planets: Not only is this place highly informative, it's fascinating. Amateur astronomer Bill Arnett of Arizona, who by profession is a software engineer, put together an easy-to-navigate site about the solar system, including the planets, their moons, the sun, asteroids, comets, meteors and more, like a list of unmanned spacecraft and missions dating to 1957. There's a glossary, photos and much more.

explorezone.com: This excellent backgrounder site offers "earth, space and weather news and reference." News reports on space and weather stories plus archives. Massive amount of links. An evening astronomical report. Lots of WebCam-type graphics. It's not-up-to-the-minute, or even to the day, but it's a good collection of reports from the past couple of months that help put issues in perspective.

Astronomy glossary: Good, fast source from Bill Arnett's "The Nine Planets" site. There are some typos, so beware: you may be searching for a misspelled term.

Shuttle photograph: NASA photo of Atlantis lifting off on June 27, 1995, from Launch Pad 39-A at KSC. It was headed for the shuttle program's first docking with Mir. I had just moved to Orlando, Fla., and drove to Titusville -- about 9 miles across the water from the launch -- to watch, as did scores of other Florida newbies, tourists and rocket lovers. I highly recommend seeing one of these at least once. If you go, plan ahead and try to get on the cape for a front-row seat. It's a little tricky, but it can be done.
Click here to go to KSC's "See a Launch" page.

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