Last updated: October 16, 1998

Hand-picked quality space-related web sites: (If know of any space-related website that you think should be listed here, please suggest it to <kenlu@mit>.) General NASA Homepage includes the following excellent resources: Today@NASA has the latest news straight from NASA. NASA Multimedia Gallery is a nice place for photos, renderings, and clips. NASA TV Listings let you find out when you can catch those live shuttle launches and other events so you can watch them on MIT Cable (which carries NTV) or via satellite. NASA Space Science News from the Marshall Space Flight Center is an excellent source of space-related news. SpaceViews is an indepedent online magazine about space policy and exploration which also has excellent recent event coverage. International Space Station (ISS) official website. NASA Image eXchange (NIX) allows you search several online NASA image galleries simultaneously. Liftoff! is a somewhat less official site that emphasizes education. Warp Drive, When? presents a discussion of where we are and what we want in the field of interstellar travel. Space Organizations The SETI Institute (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) is constantly monitoring the skies for potential communication from intelligent life from other stars. One particularly fascinating project is SETI@Home, set to launch next year, which will allow anyone to use the idle processing time of their own computers to help analyze data (much like the RC5-breaking project). The National Space Society (NSS) is the largest non-profit pro-space organization. The Planetary Society is a non-profit organization co-founded by Carl Sagan which focuses on promotion of the exploration of the solar system and the search for extra-terrestrial life. Astronomy Astronomy Picture of the Day is one of the best space-related sites on the web; it presents a new space-related image every day, complete with an expert-written description with many interesting links to sites related to the subject of the day. Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Images has what are perhaps some of the most awe-inspiring images ever seen! SEDS Internet Headquarters actually has a very good astronomy archive, especially of Messier objects. NASA's Planetary Photojournal is a comprehensive archive of photographs of various parts of our Solar System. Stars and Constellations has tons of good info. STScI Digitized Sky Survey lets you get a picture of anywhere in the sky! Just enter the name or the coordinates of what you want to see. Spacecraft NASA Shuttle Web broadcasts shuttle missions live and also presents many high-quality images from all recent missions. Reusable Launch Vehicles (RLV), under NASA's Space Transportation Programs office, includes such projects as the X-33. Dryden Research Aircraft Photo Gallery has many excellent images of research aircraft that have flown at the base. You may also wish to visit the accompanying Movie Gallery. Here are some other sites that may be of interest: (In other words, they're not good enough to be "recommended", but may still be of interest.) Orbital Space Settlements is the result of a 1975 study into the logistics of, well, an orbital space settlement. Lockheed Martin Skunk Works are the producers of many of the most advanced military and NASA vehicles. (But their website is not updated often.) Lockheed Martin Photo Archives has images of their spacecraft as well as some images of the sun. Let's close off with some philosophy, courtesy of Carl Sagan: Reflections on a Mote of Dust

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