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Space Exploration Links
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General:
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Space.com
(space.com)
(Latest Space news, links, multi-media.)
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Science of Space Movies is Out of This World
(news.discovery.com)
("Last week I snagged a seat
for a fun event called Out
of This World: The Science of Space Movies, held at the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles")
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International Space Fellowship
(spacefellowship.com)
("The International Space
Fellowship (ISF) is an international news and information network
dedicated to the development of the space industry.")
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History:
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The
Decision to Go to the Moon
(nasa.gov)
("President John F. Kennedy's May 25, 1961 Speech before a
Joint Session of Congress!")
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Amazing
Zoomable Poster of 50 Years of Space Exploration (spacefellowship.com)
("National Geographic has put together a really nice zoomable
poster on the history of robotic space exploration.")
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October Sky 2010
(smtihsk.blogspot.com)
("On October 4, 1957, the former Soviet Union, launched the
first artificial satellite into orbit ...")
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Moon Walk:
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Defending
the moon (homerhickam.com)
("Here is a list of six
reasons why the United States should make it a national goal to
establish a laboratory on the moon, similar to our Antarctic South
Pole Station")
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First Moon Landing 1969
(youtube.com)
("The video of the very first moon landing of the apollo 11
mission in 1969!")
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Lunar
Landing (foxnews.com)
(An interactive retrospective - 40 years after the space race.)
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Time
to Be Great, Again (homerhickam.com)
(Remember the movie October Sky about Homer Hickam and the
Rocket Boys? Homer Hickam's WSJ article was written on the
30th anniversary of Neil Armstrong landing on the moon. S. K.
Smith)
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Mysteries:
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"The Spacecraft Flyby Mystery" - Is Dark Matter the Culprit or is There a New Physics Waiting to be Discovered?
(dailygalaxy.com)
("When scientists send their spacecraft across the universe,
they save fuel by performing “slingshot fly-bys”. ... it
seems to produce a change in speed that no one, since it was first
discovered in the early 1990's, can account for. ")
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Rockets:
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Orion
Pad Abort 1 Video Highlights (vimeo.com)
("Edited highlights from
NASA's highly successful Pad Abort 1 Launch Test at White Sands
Missile Range on May 6, 2010. Includes amazing slow motion footage
from WSMR's 100 frame per second iso cameras.")
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SpaceX
Falcon 9 Rocket Launches, Despite Snags and Delays
(foxnews.com)
(Good news for the replacement of the Space Shuttle. - S. K. Smith)
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Satellites: |
Satellite
Flybys (spaceweather.com/flybys)
(You can find out what is going to fly over your area in the
nights ahead..)
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NASA
- Eyes On the Earth (nasa.gov)
(Check out a very cool
interactive depiction of NASA's Earth science missions)
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ESA
Space Science (esa.int)
(Latest European Space Agency news and cool pictures. - S. K. Smith)
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The
Remote Sensing Tutorial (rst.gsfc.nasa.gov)
("In memory of the Challenger astronauts.")
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Spitzer's
Space Revelations (FoxNews.com)
(I actually worked on this
project - S. K. Smith)
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MODIS Website (modis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
("MODIS (or Moderate
Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) is a key instrument aboard the
Terra (EOS AM)
and Aqua (EOS PM)
satellites." - S. K. Smith)
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Space
station:
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International
Space Station (ISS) stuff
International
Space Station
(nasa.gov)
(Check out a very cool
interactive depiction of the ISS.)
International
Space Station comes together (USATODAY.com)
(Shows timeline as all the pieces fit together. S. K. Smith)
ISS Tour - Welcome To The International Space Station!
(YouTube.com)
(Title says it all. - S. K. Smith)
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