Links
Original archive entry. The text, images and links below are kept as they were written.
Selection of links to other Internet sites of value...
This is not a comprehensive list of space links (see the first link for that!).
But here is a list of sites on the net with truly unique space history-related content!
Space News
- NASA Watch - Current space news, rumors, and insider gossip.
- JPL Space Calendar - Current and upcoming astronomical and planetary mission events.
- Space Flight Now - Current space news.
- John Hopkins Chemical Propulsion Information Center - News and data on rocket propulsion.
Space Fiction
- Project Rho - Winchell Chung's web site includes an extensive arcade of proposed and fictional advanced rockets and spacecraft.
Space News
- SpaceRef.org - Current space news, and an immense storehouse of original reference documents, poorly organized...
Space Links
- Clark's Favorite Space Links - The best site on the web for links to other space sites of interest.
Space News
- Space Daily - The best source on the net for space news, edited by Simon Mansfield.
Space History
- Jonathan's Space Home Page - Jonathan McDowell's complete on-line listing of all objects orbited since Sputnik, plus much unique and valuable imagery, launch lists, archives of his weekly Internet newsletter, etc etc.
Russian Space
- Sven Grahn's Space History Pages - Sven Grahn's site includes excellent technical articles on various aspects of current and historic Russian spacecraft.
- RussianSpaceWeb.com - Antaoly Zak's site provides articles in English on Russian space topics.
Space History
- NASA's History Office - NASA's Chief Historian, with the assistance of dedicated volunteers, is progressively digitising and posting on the web NASA's many excellent project histories, chronologies, and technical drawings of spacecraft.
- Apollo Lunar Surface Journal - One of the first great demonstrations of the use of the Internet, the ever-evolving ALSJ provides complete annotated transcriptions of every lunar landing mission.
- Romance to Reality: moon & Mars expedition & settlement plans - David S. F. Portree's excellent site provides detailed coverage of US manned lunar and planetary expedition studies and projects.
- DesignationSystems.Net - Outstanding, unique reference for aircraft, missiles, propulsion, and avionics systems.
- Marc Lindroos' Space Pages - Marc Lindroos has compiled a huge amount of space historical material.
- UFX.org - Joel Carpenter's amazing collection of information on UFO sitings and the obscure aerospace vehicles in many countries that may have led to those sitings... now unfortunately discontinued, but portions of the content can be accessed via the Wayback machine (click on link)
- Grand Tour! Planetary Exploration Page - Paolo Ulivi's delightful accounts of planetary probes that made it ... and fascinating projects that never made it to the launch pad.
Russian Space
- History of Russian / Soviet Cosmonautics (in Russian) - Outstanding collection of articles (in Russian) on Soviet space technology and personalities.
- Buran Home Page - This Russian language site, edited by , has an incredible wealth of detail on the Buran and MAKS spaceplanes.
- Soviet/Russian Aerospace Memorabilia - Alex Panchenko's site offers a unique selection of Russian space models, books, artifacts, etc.
- My Little Space Museum - Karl Dodenhoff provides a plethora of imagery of Russian space hardware.
Space History
- Space Facts - Joachim Becker's outstanding collection of facts and photos of astronauts and cosmonauts.
Russian Space
- Encyclopedia Cosmonautica - Alexander Zheleznyakov collaborated with me in the early days of the Encyclopedia Astronautica and now operates his own excellent Russian-language space encyclopedia.
Space History
- The Apollo Saturn Reference Page - John Duncan's essential site provides Internet versions of press and technical documents on Apollo and Gemini hardware and rocketry.
China Space
- Dragon in Space - Chen Lan's site - sadly no longer updated - was the best source anywhere for information on current news regarding the Chinese space program.
Space History
- British Rockets and Satellite Launchers - Nicholas Hill's delightful ramble through the rockets and projects that could have made the UK a space power rather than the weak space sister of the EU.
- Rockets in Europe - Jean-Jacques Serra's unique information on rocketry history in Europe.
- NASA Shuttle Mission Press Kits - Current and historical shuttle flight press kits available for down load.
- NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Web Site - Outstanding source of photos and articles on rocketplanes flown by NASA at Edwards AFB.
- NASA - JSC Digital Image Collection - The source on the web for photographs from American manned space flights.
- JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library - JPL's database of spacecraft information.
American Space
- NASA Human Spaceflgiht - NASA's site for current ISS and manned spaceflight information.