Links

Featured Sites

And for the younger audience, be sure to visit Diane Fisher's Space Place on the NASA website, a cool place where kids can explore and do spacey things.

Here are some more selected links related to interplanetary space flight. Some appear elsewhere in Basics of Space Flight, and some do not.

More Space Flight Basics

• Beginner's Guide to Rockets
• Rocket & Space Technology provides excellent technical and quantitative information.
• Aerospace Guide
• Aerospace Dictionary
• Tutorial on Remote Sensing
• Orbiter Space Flight Simulator

• From Stargazers to Starships includes history, math, and readers' questions. By David P. Stern.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

• Cambridge Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Astronomy Simulations and Animations

Physical Sciences

• Waves: Interference, Superposition, Doppler, and more
• WWW Chemistry Guide
• Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements
• Galileo and Einstein
• Modern Physics

The two resources above are the extensive course notes of Michael Fowler, Commonwealth Professor, University of Virginia.

• Relativity Tutorial
• Physical Sciences Information Gateway

Mathematics

• NASA Space Mathematics
• Introduction to the Rocket Equation
• Kepler's Three Laws
• Mathematics of Satellite Motion

NASA

• NASA - The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• 2008 January 31 marked 50 years since JPL's Explorer 1 became the nation's first Earth-orbiting spacecraft.

JPL's Missions

• Past
• Present
• Planned
• Proposed

Institutions of Interest

• The Space Telescope Science Institute
• The Keck Observatory

• Caltech

• NIST the National Institute of Standards and Technology
• The U.S. National Air and Space Museum
• The Lewis Center for Educational Research

The Solar System

• The Solar System Simulator from JPL

• The Solar System in Wikipedia
• Views of the Solar System
• The "Nine Planets" website does recognize that there are eight classical planets. The site provides an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of the planets, moons and other objects in our solar system, which includesÉ
  • The Sun
  • The Planet Mercury
  • The Planet Venus
  • The Planet Earth
  • The Planet Mars
  • The Planet Jupiter
  • The Planet Saturn
  • The Planet Uranus
  • The Planet Neptune
  • The Dwarf Planet Pluto
  • And just about everything else in our Solar System

Tutorials

• Tour of the universe's evolution
• The Beginner's Guide to Aeronautics

Miscellaneous

• Best of the web, Astronomy and Space
• Download and build a scale model of a spacecraft
• The Interplanetary Network Progress Reports
• Basic Astronomical Terms from SEDS
• Physical Constants and Astronomical Data from Caltech
• Mission and Spacecraft Library
• Brian's Space Hotlist
• Heavens Above - When and where to view earth orbiters
• Fact Guru - Astronomy