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<"> SPACE-related net resources:

  • The Edge of Sunshine -- how far away from the Sun can photovoltaics work?
  • Powers of 10 java demonstration
  • Composite satellite image of the Earth at night
  • NASA's Remote Sensing Tutorial
  • On To Mars editorial
  • Physlink - Physics and Astronomy online education
  • Get ready for the Leonid Meteor Shower on 17, 18 November, 1999
  • Total Solar Eclipse on 11 August in Europe!. Use only safe filters for viewing the eclipse, and check out basic eclipse geometry. View the eclispe as seen by Mir!
  • Next Generation of Spacecraft slideshow
  • Terraterm: free access to satellite picture archives in the US and Europe!
  • Hubble takes first image of a Possible Planet around another Star!
  • Hughes plans to make first commercial use of a Lunar resource; the Moon's gravity
  • Asteroid to pass within 30,000 miles of Earth in 2028!
  • SPIN-2 Satellite images; 2m commercial
  • CWRU Nassau Station - will allow general public to schedule automatic astronomy observations on a 0.9m telescope
  • Ice discovered at Lunar poles!
  • Orbital Debris Modeling
  • Extra-solar planet discovered around rho Coronae Borealis!
  • S'COOL - Students study clouds in an online NASA project
  • Comet Hale-Bopp now visible. Find out about good viewing locations for the rest of March'97 and go check it out.
  • Project HALO will launch an amateur rocket into space on 20 June
  • David Gray has new evidence in a Nature article against the hypothesis of New (potentially) water-bearing Planets discovered 35 light years away.
  • Helicopter Museum
  • NASA History Office
  • Tsiolkovsky Museum
  • StarChild learning center for your astronomers
  • Planetary Geology short course 11 - 17 May 1997 in Pescara, Italy
  • FPSPACE 97 International Workshop, Moscow, Russia (see highlights from FPSPSACE 96)
  • Haughton - Mars Expedition, June - July 1998
  • <"> Life on Mars - 3.5 Billion years ago (detailed press release and local copy), Life on Mars? page
  • Final Report on Arianne V explosion
  • Hyukatake comet (info at JPL, Hubble Telescope, Ames, and Kyoto U)
  • NASA Space Educators Handbook
  • The Russian Space Program - article by James Oberg in Dec'95 IEEE Spectrum (teasers only)
  • The Astronomy Cafe
  • Kuiper Belt Comets Discovered
  • GOES-7, 8, 9 and more realtime satellite imagery!
  • JPL Imaging Radar Contest
  • MODIS Imaging Spectroradiometer
  • Cool NASA Site of the Week
  • Space Science News of the day
  • Mars by 2012 - UC Berkeley course
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day
  • Space Vision project
  • Recent Space Shuttle Mission
  • Russia House
  • Declassified Satellite Photographs
  • Earth Viewer - pick a satellite and see its view of the Earth
  • JTrack - Watch satellites move across the Earth in real time (requires java)
  • Weaving the Astronomy Web conference announcement
  • Earth and the Universe tour (lots of images, movies, and sounds)
  • Should we return to the Moon? Discussion
  • The Basics of Space Flight courtesy JPL
  • Live Robotic Teleoperation at USC
  • Space Calendar
  • Air and Space Magazine
  • Avion Online, student aerospace newspaper at Embry Riddle
  • Space Movie Archive
  • NASA Tech Briefs
  • Watch NASA Select on your Mac or PC (using CU-SeeMe)
  • NASA Langley Tech Reports
  • Space Activism
  • Remote Sensing Home Page, ESA/ESRIN Remote Sensing User Services, U Minnesota Remote Sensing
  • Friends and Partners in Space
  • Center for Advanced Space Studies (CASS) Home Page and <[TELNET]"> online services
  • VISTA - Visual Interface for Space and Terrestrial Analysis
  • Warp Drive presentation (all GIFs)

    Astronomy

  • Amateur Telescope Maker's Journal (has Netscape-only tables)
  • Ames Area Amateur Astronomers
  • Arecibo Observatory
  • The Astronomer advanced amateur magazine info
  • Astronomical Society of Australia
  • Binary Stars - free macintosh educational software
  • Cardiff Star Formation
  • Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics
  • CLEA - Contemporary Laboratory Experiences in Astronomy
  • Cornell Astronomy
  • Florida Tech Physics and Space Sciences
  • Galaxies, Quasars and Cosmology course notes from Southampton University
  • Galileo Telescope
  • Gemini 8m Telescopes project
  • Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute Home Page, European facility, Hubble Heritage image Project
  • Liquid Mirror Telescopes
  • Millstone Hill Observatory (part of MIT)
  • Mount Wilson Observatory
  • NASA Astrophysics Data System
  • NRL Space Science Division
  • NRAO Green Bank
  • Pitt Physics and Astronomy
  • SkyView - retrieve astronomical images by coordinates and wavelength
  • Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
  • St. Mary's Astronomy and Physics
  • Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center
  • U California Lick Observatory
  • UCSD Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences
  • U Hawaii Physics and Astronomy
  • UMASS Amherst Astronomy
  • U Texas Austin Astronomy
  • U Washington Astronomy

    Fellowships

  • Hertz Foundation Fellowship
  • NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP) and proposal-writing hints
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

    History

  • The Glory Days of the US Space Program (NPR radio program)

    Launch Vehicles

  • Aerospike Nozzle Engines
  • Delta Clipper Home Page X-33 Activist Page, and short <[MOVIE]"> first flight video clip
  • A Field Guide to American Spacecraft
  • Kistler Reusable Rocketships
  • Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology
  • Space Shuttle, Reference Manual and Small Payloads info, Space Shuttle Press Kits
  • CBS: The Space Space
  • Starship Design, LIT established 2032

    Lunar Ice

  • Clementine mission made first discovery in 1994
  • CNN 5 March 1998: NASA probe finds ice on Moon
  • Euromoon 2000, 5 March 1998 ESA Press Release
  • Lunar Prospector mission discovered ice on Lunar poles 5 March 1998
  • Lunar Rover Initiative - Effort to land two exploration robots on the Moon
  • NASA Press Release 98-038, 5 March 1998 - Lunar Prospector Finds Evidence of ice at Moon's poles
  • PERMANENT: Projects to Employ Resources of the Moon and Asteroids Near Earth in the Near Term
  • Reaching for the Moon - New Scientist 23 August 97 article by Michael Davis

    Microgravity

  • NASA Space Experiments Division

    Missions

  • Clementine Lunar Image Browser, Mission Overview, 840K summary image, and AIAA article
  • Deep Space One (spacecraft video and operations room)
  • Deep Space Network (provides support for all interplanetary missions)
  • Einstein Observatory Database search
  • EOS Volcanology
  • ETS-7 Japanese Engineering Test Satellite VII (Kiku-7) (mission notes)
  • Exploring the Moon
  • Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon
  • Galileo
  • Gemini Project (with pointers to official references)
  • GENII New South Polar Times
  • GEOWARN - Global Emergency Observation Warning and Relief Network (proposed)
  • GOES-7, 8, 9 and more realtime satellite imagery
  • GPS tectonic measurements
  • HEAT - Airborne Antimatter Telescope
  • First repaired Hubble images (some more at U Arizona)
  • Infrared Space Observatory
  • JPL Very Long Baseline Interferometry (proposed)
  • Lunar Prospector Mission
  • Lunar Rover Initiative
  • Magellan Mission to Venus
  • Mars'96 demise
  • Mars Pathfinder, and 3D Mars Pathfinder data from National Geographic
  • Marsokhod - robotic planetary exploration
  • MUSES-C - Asteroid exploration with < 1 kg nanorover
  • MVACS Mars Volatiles and Climate Surveyor (Mars'99 lander and Mars microphone)
  • Project Orion
  • Pathfinder Radiometers and Pathfinder Imager
  • Phillips Laboratory projects
  • Pluto Express
  • SERTS - Solar Extreme-ultraviolet Rocket Telescope and Spectrograph
  • Shoemaker-Levy 9 info and PICTURES(!!) at JPL, SEDS, and Hubble Institute. More info can also be found at PSC, ESO-1, ESO-2, NSSDC, and U Md. MacWorld image processing article
  • Space Settlements
  • International Space Station and research plan
  • SPACEHAB Shuttle Habitation Module
  • Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry Project
  • SPOT Satellites
  • Sputnik (4 October 1997, 40th Anniversary)
  • TDRSS User Base Expansion, NASA's Tracking Data and Relay Satellite System

    Organizations

  • 2111 Foundation for Exploration
  • AMOS - Air Force Maui Optical Station (laser-assisted astronomy)
  • Arctic Research Consortium of the United States
  • The Artemis Society wants a commercial lunar base first flight by 2002
  • Casey Aerospace - Go weightless for only $10,000
  • CSIRO Australia's Office of Space Science and Applications
  • Helsinki U Space Technology lab
  • IAF - International Astronautical Federation
  • Icarus AAS Planetary Sciences newsletter
  • Intelsat
  • <"> International Space University
  • LunaCorp - lunar rover for the entertainment industry
  • Malin Space Science Systems
  • MIT Center for Space Research
  • NASA Academy summer research program for undergrads and alumni association
  • National Space Society
  • NRC Space Studies Board
  • US Office of Commercial Space Transportation
  • The Planetary Society
  • Purdue's Center on Controlled Ecological Life Support Systems
  • Space Association of Australia
  • Sea and Space programme - European educational initiative
  • SEDS - Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
  • Self-Replicating Lunar Factory and Demonstration
  • SETI Institute
  • SETI@home (unfunded, volunteer, home-based processing of SETI data)
  • Space Future
  • Space Jobs
  • <"> Space Studies Institute
  • Space Tours
  • Space Transportation Association
  • United Nations Outer Space Office
  • U North Dakota Space Studies
  • USRA - Universities Space Research Association

    Other Web Indicies

  • Acronyms
  • Amateur Radio in Space
  • Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service - search nearly a million astronomical, geophysical, lunar abstracts
  • Australian Space
  • Canadian Space Directory
  • CERN's Space Home Page and Space FAQ
  • Satellite Imagery FAQ
  • NASA Langley Technical Library
  • CoVis - Learning through Collaborative Visualization
  • Imaging Radar
  • NRAO Astronomy Resources
  • Other Worlds, Distant Suns
  • SEDS' Galaxy Page
  • SpaceCast -- daily space updates
  • STScI AstroWeb Astronomy Resources
  • Sven's Space Place - Space History notes
  • <"> USGS Web pages: Home Page, Astronomy, Earth Science, Atmospheric Science, and General science.
  • Astrophysics and Cyberspace (emphasis on the latter)

    Robotics

  • Atacama Desert Trek 97: CMU page, NASA page, Entel Chile page
  • Autonomous Helicopter Project
  • Dante II robotic exploration of the Mt. Spurr volcano's lava lake in July 1994
  • Darwin2K - Freeware robot simulator
  • International Planetary Rover Efforts
  • JPL Robotics
  • Live Robotic Teleoperation at USC or at UWA
  • Lunar Rover Initiative
  • NASA Ames Intelligent Mechanisms group
  • NASA Space Telerobotics
  • Robot Books bookstore
  • Robotics Internet Resources and Comp.Robotics FAQ
  • Tessellator: Space Shuttle tile inspector

    Solar System

  • JPL's Welcome to the Planets
  • Bill Arnett's The Nine Planets
  • <"> Center for Mars Exploration
  • Mars exploration papers
  • Moon and Mars expedition and Settlement plans
  • Catalog of Ames Planetary GIF images
  • EarthRISE database - view almost any land area on Earth from a database of US Shuttle Images!
  • Face of Venus - interactive crater database
  • Mars Surveyor MENU
  • Mars Global Surveyor Image Database
  • JSC Exploration Server
  • Surface of Pluto
  • Solar System at U Washington
  • Solar System Live
  • Views of the Solar System (available on CDROM)
  • The Space Environment: An Overview
  • NRL Space Science Division
  • ExInEd (Exploration in Education) (demos for free Macintosh hypercard stacks)
  • The Daily Planet
  • US National Air and Space Museum Center for Earth and Planetary Studies
  • COHO Web - multi-spacecraft Magnetic Field, plasma and ephemeris data
  • Planetary Rings Node
  • NOAA Space Environment laboratory

    Space Agencies

  • International Space Agencies
  • 1998 World Space Programmes and Budgets
  • Argentina's National Commision for Space Activities (CONAE)
  • Australian Radio and Space Services
  • Germany's Space Programs
  • European Space Agency and its Information Systems Home Page
  • ISAS - Japanese Space Science Agency
  • IRSO - Indian Space Research Organization
  • <"> NASA Home Page, today's news, info by Subject, Space Link, Goddard Library, Procurement and other Online Information (and search engine)
  • NASDA - Japanese Space Development Agency
  • <"> Image archives: NASA JSC Mission/Earthviews collection, NASA Ames, JPL, JPL Image Archive, Smithsonian Museum, TU Delft, Viking Orbiter and Viking Lander images, Magellan Image Services, SEDS, Astronomical (or in Français), AUStralian ROCket, customizable synthetic Earth images and movies, and local images.
  • <"> FTP Sites: NASA Ames, JPL, NASA Langley, SEDS.
  • <"> Space Digest archives: Current volumes and Ancient volumes (and backup)
  • Space-Tech archives
  • ESA Press Releases
  • <"> Telnet sessions
  • GLIS Dataset of land-based data on Earth
  • European Space Agency (ESA) Data Dissemination Network
  • Interactive Hubble Space Telescope archives (retrieve results here)
  • NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (login as ned)
  • Southwest Research Institute Data Display and Analysis System (particles/fields data for near-Earth) [currently disabled???]
  • Harvard-Smithsonian's Einstein Online Service
  • NSSDC information services (login as nodis) [currently disabled???]

    • From my personal e-library:

  • Separated at birth?
  • Je ne suis pas une cinéma.
  • Web Tutorial Slides
  • A very old hotlist.
  • Hands-on Science Centers
  • TRN, TRN, TRN
  • Schickele Mix Program Descriptions
  • Rayshade imagery
  • Computer Vision Home Page, VASC, Calibrated Imaging Lab, Stereo Datasets with Ground Truth
  • The Death of Skibo
  • Private stuff

    • Useful network resources:

  • Welcome to the Web!
    <-"> New York Times article, A Free and Simple Computer Link by John Markoff.
    <-"> Read more about the Web in the WWW Bibliography
    <-"> How do I use the Internet? Read the Internet Tools Summary, and RFC Guide to Network Resources Network Resource Tools
    <-"> How do I get online? Check the commercial, EFF, Intac (NJ) and PDIAL provider lists.
    <-"> See how fast the Web is growing!
    <-"> Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about Everything! (or just most things, but in hypertext)
  • Internet Search Engines:
    <"> Lycos, WebCrawler, MetaCrawler, W3 Search Engines, Internet Web Text, <"> Veronica, <"> ArchiePlex, <"> InterNIC (including whois, host whois and RFCs), Hypertext RFCs, NETfind lookup (login as netfind), DejaNews
  • Resources at CMU:
    SCS Home Page, CMU Home Page, Zephyr Archive, <"> White Pages Server, Bovik database, Facilities Help, Icons at SCS, non-local ECE (afs), local AIcons, elsewhere, and what's new, CMU-only comics, Indian Food
  • Adding to the Web:
    HTML programmer's guide, ISO latin characters, HTML+ Graphical entities Fill-out forms, Graphical Info Map tutorial, LaTeX2html (and new ftp site), WebMaker, Frame2html, other HTML converters, Mozilla Print Widget, Creating MPEGs, XAnim display tool, creating GIFs in C (gd), tkHTML WYSIWYG, Un-CGI for Forms, Automatic Web Visualization, Mailto, MHonArc, gf html converter, Using Mosaic by Remote Control, HTML spec, making transparent GIF backgrounds, TIA slip adapter products, IRC info, Sound and Image preprocessing suggestions, SOX sound utils, and Web Technical Details for the dedicated.
  • Fun Stuff! (ftp, SunSite, SunSite archive, archive) (archive)
  • Education: Public Libraries, Chemistry, Space, History of Mathematics, heat light and sound, Bullfrog Mac software, Uncle Bob's Kids Page
  • Musea: UC Paleontology, Egyptian Art, EXPO, Warhol, Louvre, Musée des arts et métiers, more French museums, Internet Arts Musuem, California Museum of Photography, and Smithsonian.
  • <"> World maps: Map viewer, US Shaded Relief Map, HUGE realtime maps, Where am I? [broken], the Virtual Tourist, Interactive Pittsburgh Map, Build your own Canadian map, Geographic Name Server (telnet interface), GeoSphere products, and even more maps stored at CMU.
  • <"> Weather maps and movies, Forecasts, US WebWeather Forecasts, The Daily Planet, Purdue collection, Harvard collection, and Lots more.
  • <[SOUND]"> Email Valentine (0.9 megabyte .au file) by The Bobs (www.bobs.com now online!)
  • <"> Fortran to C converter: F2c Index Page, NA Digest announcement (1989), NAG - Numerical Algorithms Group
  • <"> Sumex Info Mac Archive (and search index), UMich Mac Archive via AFS (mirror), UK Mac Archive, Mac Tools, CGIs in AppleScript, Apple Computer, MacinTalkPro, Mac Web Development tools, Mac Net Journal, Well-Connected Mac, <[BINARY]"> BinHex, <[BINARY]"> StuffItExpander, <[BINARY]"> StuffIt Lite, mcvert (Unix binhex converter), [BINARY] Rescue!, <[BINARY]"> Internet HyperCard stack, HTML Editor, HTMLedit
  • Gory Details of the Internet:
    Current BITNET nodes, ISO Country Codes, MBone videoconferencing specs, Gopher RFC, Internet Numbers RFC, LBL Network software (e.g. <[BINARY]"> traceroute), Alex: an anonymous-FTP (read-only) filesystem, UNIX Sysadmin handbook, UNIX tutorials
  • Netsurfing Software: Netscape has nice extensions but get better X fonts and try netscape extensions on your favorite page, NCSA Mosaic, AlphaWorld, TueV Mosaic (multilingual), MacWeb, Lynx (text-only), WWW Email Robot, TRN Usenet newsreader, other text-only browsers, and Common Web Library.
  • Net Privacy and Advocacy There are all kinds of wonderfully stupid things one could do with modern technology that could "help" law enforcement --Ron Rivest
  • The end of SSL and SSH?
  • The Vanderbilt Project 2000 Cyberporn Debate Page (links to critiques), Rimm's intro
  • Join the Blue Ribbon Anti-Censorship Campaign!
  • CMU Anonymizer
  • The Risks of Key Recovery, Key Escrow, and Trusted Third-Party Encryption
  • ACM-IIT Computers Seized By Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Censorship at CMU
  • Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
  • Home Recording Rights Coalition
  • Cryptography, PGP, and Your Privacy
  • Don't you feel safe? Bokler's Guide to "Cracker" software list tools that break commercial encryptions in seconds.
  • PGP Privacy-enhanced email source code and documentation
  • CancelMoose
  • Privacy and your SSN (Social Security Number)
  • U.S. Copyright Law
  • RSA Public Key Cryptography,
  • NetBill - VISA and CMU Internet billing service
  • FreeNets
  • RISKS Archives and searchable database, EDUPage archives

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