- NASA Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) (4)
Learn about NASA Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), presently renamed as Orion, the proposed series of human spaceflight system. Sites include historical background, mission details, spacecraft profile, exploration systems architecture, as well as the NASA constellation program designed to carry astronauts between Earth and moon.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Spacecraft/NASA_Crew_Exploration_Vehicle__CEV_
- Space Transportation Association (STA)
Dedicated to supporting and promoting public and private sector efforts to provide reliable and economical space transportation.
www.spacetransportation.us
- ESA Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)
European supply ship for the International Space Station.
www.esa.int/export/SPECIALS/ATV/ESAE021VMOC_0.html
- NASDA H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV)
Japan's cargo transporter to the International Space Station.
www.nasda.go.jp/projects/rockets/htv/index_e.html
- Space Elevators, Space Hotels, and Space Tourism
Research paper describing a conceptual design for a transportation system to carry passengers into space.
www.spacefuture.com/archive/space_elevators_space_hotels_and_space_tourism....
- ANTS: Autonomous NanoTechnology Swarm
NASA mission architecture and AI paradigm for space exploration based on large numbers of autonomous specialized spacecraft working together as inspired by social insect colonies.
ants.gsfc.nasa.gov
- NASA: Project Constellation
Learn about NASA's Constellation Program that is working on the new spacecraft that will return humans to the Moon and blaze a trail to Mars and beyond.
www.nasa.gov/externalflash/constellation_front/index.html
- Lightcraft Project at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Report about space-bound flights can use laser power.
www.rpi.edu/dept/NewsComm/Magazine/March99/atrenss_soe2.html
- NASA: X-38 Technology
Project to develop the technology for a prototype emergency crew return vehicle (CRV), or lifeboat, for the International Space Station (ISS).
www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Research/X38_Save/index.html
- Scientific American: The Way to Go in Space
Engineers have no shortage of inventive plans for new propulsion systems that might someday expand human presence beyond Earth.
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0005E0F4-8A82-1CD6-B4A8809EC588EEDF&cat...
- MSNBC: Human Spaceflight
Providing ongoing and archived news coverage of human spaceflight, including NASA's space shuttle missions.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7298095
- From Stargazers to Starships
Deals with the world of gravity: of massive planets and stars, and the way spaceflight is achieved despite their strong pull. Topics include astronomy of the Earth's motion in space and Newtonian mechanics.
www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Sintro.htm
- SpaceShipOne (5)
Find sites for SpaceShipOne and its carrier aircraft White Knight, the world's first privately funded manned space program. Sites feature background information, special reports, mission objectives and results, and launch video clips of the experimental air-launched suborbital spaceplace which used a hybrid rocket motor.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Spacecraft/SpaceShipOne
- NASA: Technical Diagrams and Drawings
Interesting and useful for modelers and other space enthusiasts who want to see 'blueprints' of various U.S. piloted spacecraft.
www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/diagrams/diagrams.htm
- Apollo Project@
Discover the Apollo Project, which consisted of lunar surface operations conducted by the six pairs of astronauts who landed on the Moon from 1969 through 1972, including transcripts, astronaut commentaries, and multimedia.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Moon/Apollo_Project
- Gemini Program@
Find sites for Gemini Program, the second human spaceflight program on the United States. Sites include background information, spacecraft, history, missions, technical diagrams, movie adaptation, and images of the space project which was a precursor to the Project Apollo to land men on the moon.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Missions/Gemini_Program
- Mercury Project@
Learn about Mercury Project, the United States' first manned spaceflight program between 1959-1963. Sites include historical background, mission objectives, tech diagrams, countdown, live mission photos, and articles about the space mission officially carried out by the then newly created NASA.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Missions/Mercury_Project
- Shenzhou 5@
Explore the sites for Shenzhou 5, the first manned space mission launched by the People's Repubic of China in 2003. Sites include background information, Chinese space program history, fact sheets, articles, news reports, notes on taikonauts, and images of the spacecraft which made China the third country to launch people into space. Also find sites China's first astronaut Yang Liwei.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Missions/Shenzhou_5
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