Space Sites

Space and Cryogenics Sites

Here are links to other space sites, both NASA and non-NASA.

Non NASA Links Disclaimer

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Link Categories

Here are the categories I've divided the sites into:

Moon Hoax!
Goddard
Headquarters and NASA General
Safety
Cryo Payloads (and other cryo info)
Look! Up in the Sky!
Museums
Other Space
Old Astronomy Astrolabes and such
Not Necessarily Space
Useful General Info

Moon Hoax! Two Sites to Get Started

Badastronomy -- Moon Hoax and more! What's wrong with astonomy on TV and in the movies. (a non-US government, non-NASA link)
RedZero Moon Hoax Site, many moon hoax claims debunked. (a non-US government, non-NASA link)

Goddard Space Flight Center

Goddard Space Flight Center Homepage
Goddard Library Homepage.
Magnetism on Earth and in Space, an introduction by Goddard scientists.
Goddard Engineering Colloquium.
Goddard Scientific Colloquium.

NASA Hq or General

NASA Main Web Page
Science@NASA Interesting NASA science stories
NASA News and Features
Human Spaceflight Page Current news on the Space Shuttle and Space Station.
Resources for Educators, mostly NASA (a whole page of links.)
Gallery of Hubble Space Telescope images
Space Photo Gallery of the National Space Science Data Center

Safety

NASA Safety Reporting System If it's not safe, say so.
Cryogenics and Compressed Gas Safety Info from Air Products (a non NASA, non US government link)

Cryogenic Programs and Payloads (and Other Cryo Info)

Liquid Nitrogen Powered Car (a non NASA, non US government link)
COBE, COsmic Background Explorer, measured the cosmic blackbody backgraound radiation.
Infrared Space Observatory Home Page, European Space Agency satellite. (a non NASA, non US government link)
Institute of Cryogenics and Energy Research of the University of Southampton, England, UK. (a non NASA, non US government link)
Cryogenic Info at NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (formerly National Bureau of Standards). (US government, but not NASA)

Look! Up in the Sky!

NOAA's Space Weather Now page, info for spotting auroras.(US government, but not NASA)
Space Weather.Com, more info for aurora watchers. (a non-NASA, non-US government)
Spacecraft Map Shows a world map with satellite locations constantly updated. See the International Space Station, Etc.
Visual Satellite Observer's Home Page. (a non-US government, non-NASA link)
Heavens Above satellite observation predictions. (a non-US government, non-NASA link)
Sky Watch satellite observing information from NASA.
Observing Highlights from Sky & Telescope Magazine. (a non-US government, non-NASA link)
Stardate Online, companion to the radio feature. Includes daily skywatching tips. (a non-US government, non-NASA link)
Fred Espenak's Eclipse Page, run by Mr. Eclipse himself. Also info on transits of Venus.

Museums

The Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio. (US government, but notNASA)
The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. (non-NASA)
The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, a museum with a large collection of US and Soviet Spacecraft. A member of the Smithsonian Institution Affiliations Program (a non-US government, non-NASA link)
Virginia Air & Space Center at Hampton. Includes the NASA Langley Visitor Center (Although this is not a US government institution, it is affiliated with NASA Langley.)

Other Space

Space.com News stories and more. (a non-NASA, non-US government link)
NASA Watch Not an official NASA site, but good collection of links to news items and to NASA websites. (a non-NASA, non-US government link)
Internet Aerospace Links (a non-NASA, non-US government link) Links: Lots of them
Virtually Hawaii uses the Hawaiian Islands to demonstrate remote sensing. (a non-NASA, non-US government link)

Old Astronomy: Astrolabes, Etc.

Timeshapes if you thought there was nothing new in the world of mechanical clocks. (a non-NASA, non-US government link)
Renaissance and Medieval Scientific Instruments, pictures and desscriptions of several museum collections. (a non-NASA, non-US government link)
Astrolabes.org a website devoted to this beautiful ancient astronomical instrument. (a non-NASA, non-US government link)
Norman Greene Astrolabe Maker (a non-NASA, non-US government link)
Hands-On Astrolabe Download files to make a simple astrolabe. (a non-NASA, non-US government link)
Clocks & Calendars Web exhibits on time, calendars, and clocks. (This site run by NIST, an agency of the US Government, but not NASA)

Not Necessarily Space

Big Blue An engineering project at the University of Kentucky to develop an inflatable airplane, suitable for Mars. (a non-NASA, non-US government link)
Ringworld A series of computer visualisations of the Ringworld from Larry Niven's novel. (a non-NASA, non-US government link)

Useful General Information

NOAA Geomagnetic Field Calculator calculates the Earth's magnetic field for any spot from 600 km above the Earth's surface to 1 km below. (This site run by NOAA, an agency of the US government.)
BBC Science & Technology Reports (a non-NASA, non-US government link)
Political Activities by Government Employess as governed by the Hatch Act. Office of Special Counsel (US government, but not NASA).
NIST web clock (This site run by NOAA, an agency of the US government.)

Curator: Mark O. Kimball
NASA Official: Eric A. Silk
Last Updated: 09/11/2014