A Guide to Useful Space Sites on the World Wide Web
Updated 01/13/01
Changes and additions:
Correcting Canadian Space Agency link
Fixing Florida Today link
Editor's Note...
The following list is not intended to be inclusive; there are far too many space-related pages to possibly include on a single hot list. Instead, I have included links to major sites (like NASA's popular shuttle web page) that serve as gateways to hundreds of other pages on the World Wide Web. Please let me know about any sites I've overlooked or not discovered that you think might warrant inclusion. And please let me know if you find a link that's no longer active. Thanks!
Space Links Table of Contents
NASA Press Releases and Status Reports
Marshall Space Flight Center News Release Archive
MIT/NASA News Releases Archive
Kennedy Space Center shuttle/payload status reports
Kennedy Space Center press releases
Johnson Space Center status reports/news releases
NASA Headquarters News Releases
Other Hotlists of Space Sites
NASA Office of Space Flight "Hotlist" of Space-related Web Sites
World Spaceflight News Site Directory
Jonathan's Space Report
Mark Maihome's Space Page
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Index
Clark Lindsey's Favorite Space Links
NASA's Shuttle Web and Other Useful Sites
NASA Shuttle Web
World Spaceflight News
NASA News Releases from MIT Archive
Astronaut Biographies
Marshall Space Flight Center's Spacelink
KSC Shuttle Liftoff Home Page
KSC Shuttle Status Reports
JSC Mission Status Reports
Shuttle Countdown Status
Reusable Launch Vehicle Program
NASA's Spinoff Page
The International Space Station
ISS Home Page
ISS Assembly
ISS Science
ISS Spacewalk Requirements
Technical Data
The Russian Mir Space Station
Space Russia
Muurkant Mir Status Reports
NASA Office of Space Flight Mir Background
Johnson Space Center's Shuttle-Mir Page
Dennis Newkirk's Russian Cosmonautics Archive
Satellite 2-line Elements and Tracking Software
T.S. Kelso's satellite elements archive
Satellite tracking software for Macs and PCs
Bill Bard's "OrbiTrack" for Macs without FPUs
OrbiTrack for Macs with FPUs
David Ransom's "STS Plus" for PCs
Satellite visibility info for selected cities
German Space Operations Centre realtime satellite tracking
Marshall Space Flight Center realtime satellite tracking
Deep Space Missions
Voyager 1 and 2
Pioneer 10 and 11
Viking 1 and 2
Galileo
Cassini
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission
Deep Space One
Mars Pathfinder
Mars Global Surveyor
Mars Climate Orbiter
Mars Polar Lander
JPL Directory
Other Unmanned Space Missions
X-Ray Timing Explorer
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
POLAR mission
International Ultraviolet Explorer (Check it out before it's gone!)
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
Hubble Space Telescope
HST Home Page
HST Press Releases
HST Pictures
HST Movies and Animation
HST Instruments
Astronomy Sites
The Whole Mars Catalog
Mike Boschat's Astronomy Pages
NASA Astronomy and Astrophysics Links
National Space Science Data Center
AstroWeb
Northwestern University
Harvard Astronomy Sites
Star Catalogues
The Nine Planets: A Virtual Tour
Planetary Photojournal
Planetary Data System
Space Physics Data System
Stardate
The Planetary Society
Weather Maps and Forecasts
Weather Links (more than 300 sites!)
Weather World
Weather Maps
JSC Spaceflight Meteorology Group Landing Weather Forecasts
Intellicast World Weather Page
Intellicast Florida Radar Summary (21K)
Current KSC Weather
KSC Radar Summary
Florida Weather Forecasts
National Weather Service
Hurricane Tracking Map
National Hurricane Center Advisories, Forecasts and Position Updates
GOES Satellite Imagery
Clocks and Maps on the World Wide Web
World Clocks
World Time Zones (and data on daylight savings time)
Calendar
Timezone Converter
Mapquest Interactive Atlas
Yahoo Interactive Map
Reference Material
Research It!
Space Shuttle Reference Manual
Jonathan's Space Report
JPL Space Calendar
Photos, Movies and Animation
Johnson Space Center On-line Photos
Oklahoma State Space Image Libraries
All Available NASA Video
CU-SeeMe Software and Reflector Sites
NASA Headquarters Space Photo Gallery
JSC Digital Image Archive
Imaging Radar Archive
Dryden Research Aircraft Photo Archive
Space Radar Lab images
National Space Science Data Center Photo Gallery
Current Solar Images
Declassified Spy Satellite Photos
Newspapers and Magazines
University of Michigan's List of Selected Newspapers and Magazines
Florida Today
The Washington Post
The New York Times
The Boston Globe
San Jose Mercury
NandO Times
USA Today
Space News
Sky & Telescope's Sky Online
Astronomy Magazine
Astronomy Now Magazine
Air & Space Magazine
U.S. News & World Report
News Scientist Magazine
Time Magazine
NASA Headquarters/Field Centers
NASA Home Page
NASA X.500 Personnel Search Engine
Ames Research Center
Dryden Flight Research Center
Goddard Space Flight Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Johnson Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
Langley Research Center
Lewis Research Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
Stennis Space Center
Wallops Flight Facility
Other Space Agencies
European Space Agency
The Russian Space Agency links at the Marshall Space Flight Center
Russian Space Links
German Space Links
Italian Space Agency
Canadian Space Agency
French Space Agency
Japanese Space Links
Yahoo Space Institutes Directory
Major NASA Contractors
Editor's Note...
I would like to include as many aerospace contractors in the following set of links as possible. If you have an address you think would be of interest, please pass it on!
Boeing-North American Co.
Rockwell International
Rockwell International News Releases
Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell International
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Lockheed Martin Astronautics
Lockheed Martin News Releases
Lockheed Martin Manned Space Systems
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space Co.
Hughes Electronics
United Space Alliance
Orbital Sciences Corp.
Useful NASA Historical Archives
NASA Pocket Statistics (very useful!)
Apollo Lunar landing Mission Transcripts
Graphic Lunar Exploration Timeline
Apollo Program Data
Apollo 13
STS-51L: Challenger's Final Flight
Shuttle Program History
The Space Act: NASA's Enabling Legislation
Moonport
Other Useful Space Pages
NASA RIF Watch
Space Educator's Handbook
Charlotte Robot Home Page
Johnson Space Center Roundup
Spacer.Com info on Japanese space services
