Hot Links - Space

Space Images

• JSC Press Release Images of all US human spaceflights (Mercury to Space Shuttle); Mirror at KSC
• Nasa Photo Archive
• JPL's ftp image archive

Special Shuttle stuff

• CNN Shuttle news
• Shuttle Missions page (KSC)

International Space Station

• Nasa's Space Station homepage
• International Space Station Assembly Flight Schedule
• Space Station stuff at Nasa Spacelink
• Space Station Launch Site at KSC
• SEDS Space Station image archive

New Shuttle X-33 Venture Star

• X-33 photo gallery (DFRC/Nasa)
• CNN report

Galileo at Jupiter

• Galileo Homepage at JPL
• Galileo Image Mirror at the DLR (Germany)

Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR)

• Earth Swingby Info on NEAR's Earth Swingby of January 22-23, 1998; MSI-Images, NIS-Image of Antarctica
• (253) Mathilde images from NEAR's June 27, 1997 encounter
• NEAR's mission (NSSDC)
• NEAR Homepage (John Hopkins U.); Launch; Near Earth Asteroid 433 Eros

Mars -- the Planet, its Exploration, and Spacecraft Missions

• Mars Link and Exploration Page: There's so much interesting material on Mars that I've devoted an extra page to it. Includes the currently planned future missions up to 2015.
• Life on Mars: Possible evidence discovered
• Mars Today: Current Appearance of and Weather on Mars
• Mars face: A nice landform on Mars
• Mars Global Surveyor: MGS Homepage at JPL (MGS launched on November 7, 1996, entered Mars orbit on September 11, 1997, and while aerobraking to lower its orbit, began photo surveying Mars from orbit)
• Mars Pathfinder: MPF Homepage at JPL (the successful little lander and its rover of 1996-97)
• Mars Surveyor 1998 (JPL): Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander
• Japan's Planet B (Nozomi) Mars orbiter homepage
• 2001 Mars Odyssey: Odyssey homepage (JPL)
• 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers: Mars Exploration Rovers homepage (JPL)
• Mars Express: ESA's 2003 Mars mission
• 2005 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
• Launch Sequence of all historic Mars missions (and scheduled launch dates for future missions), with links to Mars probe images and webpages

Moon Missions

• Lunar Prospector: Nasa Moon probe launched January 1998. Image of the Lunar Prospector spacecraft (37k jpg); Lunar Prospector Homepage (ARC),
  • Lunar Prospector confirms water ice near the poles of the moon (Nasa PR 98-38)
  • Lunar Ice page (Lunar Prospector team)
  • Lunar Prospector Info (NSSDC)
• EuroMoon 2000: European (ESA) Lunar orbiter and lander missions, was finally rescheduled as SMART 1 and is to be launched December 21, 2002 as auxiliary payload of an Ariane 5. SMART 1 info (NSSDC)
• Lunar-A, Japan's Lunar Orbiter, scheduled to launch on September 1, 2002; may be delayed to 2003.
• Selene is a proposed Japanese Lunar Orbiter to be launched in 2003. Selene Homepage (NASDA); Selene info (NSSDC)
• Clementine (DSPSE, Deep Space Program Science Experiment): Homepage at the NRL; Clementine images at SEDS

  As published as lately as November/December 1996, Clementine has probably discovered a water ice reservoir, or ice field, near the Lunar pole. Read the CNN articles of December 2 and December 3 on the Moon Ice.

More Spacecraft Homepages

• Cassini: Cassini homepage (JPL); Cassini Jupiter images
• Pluto-Kuiper Express: Mission to Pluto and the Kuiper belt.. Pluto Express homepage - one of the Ice & Fire missions (JPL); Pluto-Kuiper Express info (NSSDC); New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission Pluto Express Science (LPL/Arizona)
• Deep Space 1: First interplanetary probe with ion propulsion !
• Europa Orbiter
• Solar Probe
• SOHO
• Polar
• Wind
• Geotail homepage (GSFC); Geotail homepage (ISAS)
• Ulysses: Ulysses homepage (JPL), homepage at GSFC/Nasa, homepage at ESTEC/Esa
• Voyager
• FAST (Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer): Launched on August 21, 1996 by Pegasus from the L-1011 carrier aircraft. FAST homepage. FAST is one of Nasa's Small Explorer (SMEX) satellite series.
• Homepages of astronomical satellites (orbiting astronomical observatories) are linked in the SEDS Orbiting Astronomical Observatories page