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Views of the neighborhood:
Current
Satellite Views Of The Entire Earth,
Current
Global Weather Map, and
Earth And Moon
Viewer: Computed views
of the Earth and Moon and incredible software
downloads including the amazing
Home Planet software.
Recommended!
Download updated satellite
tracking data
here.
Tour The Solar
System.
Look at the
Sun: New images several times daily from observatories
around the world.
The
Current Best Map Of Pluto and Charon: Until
someone sends a probe there, this is as good as it is going to get.
The Astronomy Picture Of The
Day Archive
U.S.
Space Shuttle Flight Status Reports.
Russian Mir Space Station News
The International Space Station:
Lunar Prospector: Purposefully crashed into the
lunar south pole. It
has confirmed that water exists in quantity at the north and south lunar poles.
Silver Moon: The
Apollo 17 Mission:
An excellent retrospective by Kelly O. Humphries of NASA's Public Affairs
Office featuring interviews and photos from the last manned lunar mission, now
twenty five years in the past.
The Mars Polar Lander: Landed near the South Pole of Mars
December 3, 1999.
Main site
The Mars Pathfinder Mission:
The Martian Global Surveyor:
Overview, Current
Flight Status, Latest
Pictures, and
Realtime
Telemetry!
Deep
Space 1: Launched
October 24 1998, it is the first of NASA's New Millenium advanced
technology probes. Mission goals include flybys of Mars, asteroid
McAuliffe and comet West-Kohoutek-Ikemura.
Stardust: Launched
February 7 1999 to collect samples from comet Wild 2 and return them to Earth in
2006.
The Galileo Probe:
Overview And Current Flight
Status.
The Cassini Mission:
Overview and recent
camera views (including launch movies).
Voyager:
Currently Voyager I and II are the most distant manmade objects.
NASA:
The space standard bearers.
Search all NASA
sites!
The Canadian Space
Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA):
The Russian Space Research Institute
(IKI) in Moscow, Russia.
The P.E.R.M.A.N.E.N.T. Space Site:
Projects to Employ Resources of the Moon and Asteroids Near Earth
in the Near Term. That says it all. Space Settlement fans should note the
PERMANENT Links to Related
Sites, a valuable collection of up-to-date space sites.
SETI@home:
You can help out the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence on your own
home computer and be a contributing part of one of Mankind's greatest
quests. Put those unused CPU cycles to work on a good cause.
Clive Bagley's
Astronomical Resources
Want to go into space yourself?
Zegrahm Expeditions
Drive across the lunar surface!
LunaCorp
Applied Space Resources, Inc. are
another private enterprise venture with big ideas. Their first stated goal is to
send an unmanned probe to the Moon to retrieve lunar rock for sale here on Earth.
The Artemis Project: seeks to place a
manned base on the Moon.
The Lunar Institute of Technology:
has already staked out the crater Copernicus as the site for its campus.
The Lunar Base Quarterly:
This scientific journal focuses on the nuts and bolts issues of constructing and maintaining
a manned lunar base. Facts and figures galore here.
From the Johnson Space Center, Houston.
Current Satellite View of
Canada
and the
United
States
Another
Global Weather Map
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