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Hubble Space Telescope. Amazing images. You can see many pictures, movies and the latest news concerning the space telescope on this site as well as job openings.

NASA. Great news from NASA who seems to get SOMETHING done. Pop quiz: How many people does it take to send a shuttle back up? Over 20,000! It takes an airline less than FIFTY. Let's hope NASA gives up its monopoly and allows commercial companies to produce and manage RLV's to open space travel for the rest of us.

The International Space Station. Want to know what one gets for 60 billion dollars? Could someone please tell me what's wrong with a reinforced bubble with a water shield instead of rigid structures?

MIR Space Station. It's troubles have made it a laughing stock to many but its performance has been amazing since it was only designed to last FIVE years but has now been occupied for thirteen! My hat's off to the Russians for such an amazing feat! If you want a schedule where you can see it at night, go here.

X-Prize Foundation. They've offered a 10 million dollar prize to the first private team to build and fly a reusable spaceship capable of carrying three individuals on a sub-orbital flight.

Vandenberg Air Force Base, the Kennedy Space Center, and the Patrick Air Force Base all contain web sites listing launches.  Also, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory maintains a Space Calendar.

Galileo. The spacecraft that's exploring Jupiter and its moons.

Mars Pathfinder. Remember Sojourner, the little robot that could? Here's its homepage!

Cassini. Onward to Saturn, the lord of the rings!

Deep Space 1. The next generation spacecraft.

NASA Headquarters. Located in Washington, D.C.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). NASA's robotic spacecraft center located in Pasadena California.
Kennedy Space Center. Based in Florida, where the space shuttles launch.
Johnson Space Center. Based in Houston Texas.
Ames Space Center. Based at Moffett Field, California.
Dryden Flight Research Center. Based at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Based near Columbia University in New York City.
Goddard Space Flight Center. Based in Maryland.
Langley Research Center. Based in Hampton, Virginia.
Lewis Research Center. Found in Cleveland, Ohio.
Marshall Space Flight Center. Located in Huntsville, Alabama.
Stennis Space Center. Hancock County, Mississippi.
Wallops Flight Facility. Wallops Island, Virginia,
White Sands Test Facility. Based in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Russian Space Agency.
European Space Agency.
Canadian Space Agency. Yup! We've got one too!
British National Space Centre.
National Space Development Agency of Japan. The English pages of Japan's Space Agency.
German Space Agency. DLR's website. DLR is Germany's national aerospace and research center as well as the national space agency.

Clark's Favorite Space Links. This site's amazing in its magnitude! It is the best space-related site I know.
NASA Humanspaceflight. This is a fantastic site for all the most recent manned space flights.
Stellar Link. Contains many, many space and space-related links.
Valid Space Related Links -- Fast.
Mark Wade's Encyclopedia Astronautica.
Russian Aerospace Guide. Contains a wealth of information about the Russian space program.
Russian Aerospace Links. Contains the links to Russia's space programs such as Mars-96.
Russia's Space Research Institute (IKI).
The Aerospace Navigator.
Energia LTD. A US company that represents and promotes Russia's Energia program. Contains great information!

Space Today. A segment of the newspaper Florida Today containing the latest space-related news.
NASA Watch. An unofficial site containing the latest NASA information which isn't afraid to criticize the organization when needed.
Space Daily.  Contains the latest space-related news.
Spaceviews. An Online Publication of Space Exploration.
@Discovery.ca. I can't neglect this site since it is the world's only daily hour-long science program, and every major space news invariably shows up on this program complete with informative interviews with the discoverers.

The Living Universe Foundation. (Formerly the First Millennial Foundation). The premiere futuristic organization for the advancement of mankind. This organization was founded by Marshall Savage (the author of The Millennial Project - which is available in your favorite bookstore) and contains numerous brilliant and dedicated members who are developing the means for the creation of floating colonies on the international equatorial waters, in addition to space colonies. Full Membership is $100/year but is well worth it. It also has tax-exempt status and any donation or funding given to it is tax-deductible.
The National Space Society.
Space Access Society.

    The goal is to create spaceships without any throw-away parts. Instead of the current multi-stage step system to put a ship into orbit, the successors to the space shuttle will be SSTO (Single-Stage-to-Orbit) vehicles which should reduce the cost of payload from the current $10,000+/lb to a maximum of $1,000/lb.

X-33. NASA's next shuttle, the Venturestar.

Pioneer Rocketplanes. This company's spaceplane takes off from any airport and climbs to 30,000 ft and is then refueled in mid-air, after which, it blasts off into sub-orbit, boosts its cargo into orbit and then returns to any airport.

Kelly Aerospace. This company's Astroliner is towed behind a plane, probably a 747 or another large aircraft, and when it reaches cruising altitude (30,000 ft ?), releases its tether cable and blasts off into sub-orbit, releasing its cargo. A problem is it requires an extremely long runway to land.

Rotary Rocket. The notion of "helicopters spaceships" (the Roton ATV) seems ridiculous but this company has some really good ideas. Somewhat similar to the Graham Clipper by Boeing, its possession of rotor blades is similar to that of a helicopter's.

Scaled Composites. Their Proteus craft is amazingly versatile. It can be used to launch capsules up into space from a height above 35,000 ft and can also operate as a cellular relay station by hovering over a city, like a low-level satellite.

Kistler Aerospace Corporation. The K-1 is a satellite delivery system and returns to earth by parachute.

Civilian Astronauts Corps. Their Mayflower craft is water launched vertically and water landed horizontally. This makes any coastal city a potential spaceport.

Lone Star Space Access Corp. Their Cosmos Mariner will take off and land at an ordinary airport. When it gets to 35,000 feet, the nose tilts up and it becomes a rocket.

Zegrahm Space Voyages. Their Sky Lifter carries a Space Cruiser to 100 km above sea level (which is basically "space") making the passengers experience weightlessness.

Space Transportation Programs (STP). See NASA's planned future spaceships.

Earth-To-Orbit Transportation Systems. One of my favorite sites for seeing future delivery systems. This site constantly reinforces my belief in the inefficiency and blindness of NASA since stationary launches of rockets are the LEAST efficient way to get out of the gravity well of our planet.

NASA Spinoff. The decentralization of power and technology.
SPACE SCIENCES. How to create self-containing habitats and colonize space. Have asteroid, will construct.

The Outer Space Treaty. A country can't willy-nilly do what they want just because they are the first to go up into space. No country has the right to monopolize space and its resources or access to space. Article 2 seems absurd to me since it discourages the main incentive of pioneering. As its worded, a country or corporation can't land on a near-earth asteroid and claim possession over it allowing these pioneers to extract its resources. A way around this problem is for a country or space pioneering group to not sign the treaty at all or utilize their Article 16 rights. Go here for a list and texts of other international space treaties.

The US National Space Policy. This is the official policy of the US when it comes to space exploration and colonization.

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