NASA Links

Space Station News Releases Year in Space Starts for One American and One Russian 03.27.15 - Three crew members representing the United States and Russia are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:42 p.m. EDT Friday (1:42 a.m., March 28 in Baikonur). One-Year Crew Set for Launch to Space Station; NASA TV to Air Live Coverage 03.18.15 - The first one-year crew for the International Space Station is set to launch Friday, March 27. NASA Television will provide extensive coverage of the launch and the crew’s arrival to the orbital laboratory. Space Station Crew Returns to Earth, Lands Safely in Kazakhstan 03.11.15 - Three crew members returned to Earth Wednesday after a 167-day mission on the International Space Station (ISS) that included hundreds of scientific experiments and several spacewalks to prepare the orbiting laboratory for future arrivals by U.S. commercial crew.

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View PDF (3.4 MB) SpaceX to Deliver Station Research, Side of Caffeine 04.10.15 - From improving LCD screens to testing espresso machines, a variety of research is headed to the International Space Station aboard the sixth SpaceX contracted resupply mission. The Dragon spacecraft will deliver research equipment for physical science, biology, biotechnology, human research and tech ... NASA/Forest Service Maps Aid Fire Recovery 04.10.15 - New maps of two recent California megafires that combine unique data sets from the U.S. Forest Service and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, are answering some of the urgent questions that follow a huge wildfire: In all the acres of blackened landscape, where are the live tre ... TRMM Rainfall Mission Comes to End after 17 Years 04.10.15 - In 1997 when the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM, was launched, its mission was scheduled to last just a few years. Now, 17 years later, the TRMM mission has come to an end. NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) stopped TRMM’s science operations and data collection on A ... Weather Forecast 60 Percent 'Go' for SpaceX Launch 04.09.15 - Weather forecasters from the U.S. Air Force 45th Weather Squadron are predicting a 60 percent chance of favorable weather at the scheduled time for launch of SpaceX’s sixth commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft i ... Effects of Small Solar Eruptions On Unprotected Planets 04.09.15 - The interplay between the sun and Earth is crucial for making our planet livable – a balance between a sun that provides energy and a planet that can protect itself from the harshest solar emissions.  On Earth, some of the impact of coronal mass ejections is deflected by a natural magnetic bubble ca ... NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Turns 25 This Month 04.09.15 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is a quarter-century old this month. Though only projected to be in service for 10 years when it launched aboard space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the unique telescope is still a technological marvel 25 years later. Orbitin ... Our Sun Came Late to Milky Way’s Star-Birth Party 04.09.15 - In one of the most comprehensive multi-observatory galaxy surveys yet, astronomers find that galaxies like our Milky Way underwent a stellar "baby boom," churning out stars at a prodigious rate, about 30 times faster than today. Our sun, however, is a late "boomer." The Milky Way’s star-birthing fre ... MAVEN Completes 1,000 Orbits Around Mars 04.08.15 - MAVEN completed 1,000 orbits around the Red Planet on April 6, four-and-a-half months into its one-year primary mission. MAVEN is in its science mapping orbit and has been taking data since the start of its primary mission on Nov. 16, 2014. The furthest point in the spacecraft’s elliptical orbit has ... Seasonal, Year-Long Cycles Seen on the Sun 04.08.15 - Our sun is constantly changing. It goes through cycles of activity – swinging between times of relative calm and times when frequent explosions on its surface can fling light, particles and energy out into space. This activity cycle peaks approximately every 11 years. New research shows evidence of ... The Solar System and Beyond is Awash in Water   04.07.15 - As NASA missions explore our solar system and search for new worlds, they are finding water in surprising places. Water is but one piece of our search for habitable planets and life beyond Earth, yet it links many seemingly unrelated worlds in surprising ways.  International Space Station Features Benefits for Humanity Learn how science and research are benefitting life here on Earth, including NASA’s new video feature “Benefits for Humanity: In Their Own Words.” The One-Year Crew NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency have named veteran spacefarers Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko for a one-year mission aboard the station in 2015. Take a Tour of the ISS with Suni Williams In her final days as commander of the International Space Station, Suni Williams recorded an extensive tour of the orbital laboratory. The tour includes scenes of each of the station's modules and research facilities. A Day in the Life Aboard the Station Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live and work in space? Follow astronauts on the International Space Station in a series of videos as they explain their daily routines. A Lab Aloft: The Space Station Research Blog Take a look behind-the-scenes with the scientists and researchers who are conducting experiments on board the International Space Station.

NASA Data Archives

• NASA Image Exchange (NIX)
  Provides a single entry point for performing searches for photographs and images at multiple NASA Centers simultaneously.

• NASA JSC Digital Image Collection
  This collection of more than 9000 NASA press release photos spans the American manned space program, from the Mercury program to the STS-79 Shuttle mission.

• NASA Life Sciences Data Archive
  Features games and activities to teach about space flight and what happens to the human body in space.

• Latest KSC Area Weather
  Live forecasts, reports, and maps showing the current weather conditions at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

• NASA Solar System Exploration
  The Solar System Exploration Web site is a one-stop shop for planetary information published by NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

• NASA Starchild
  Starchild is an educational NASA site designed for students in grades K through 8.

• NASA Astronaut Biographies
  Features extensive official NASA biographies of current astronauts, former astronauts, astronaut candidates, and payload specialists.

• NASA Headquarters
  NASA Headquarters, in Washington, provides overall guidance and direction to the agency, under the leadership of the Administrator. Ten field centers and a variety of installations around the country conduct the day-to-day work in laboratories, on air fields, in wind tunnels, and in control rooms.

• NASA KSC Live Video Feeds
  Features over a dozen live video feeds from Kennedy Space center offices, engineering facilities, and remote cameras.

• NASA Main Home Page
  Home page for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Includes operational news, wide range of background material, archives, image gallery and planned missions.

• JPL Recent News and Features
  Breaking news on planets, space, missions exploring Mars, Saturn and beyond, scientific discoveries, and the robotic exploration of our Solar System.

• Kennedy Space Center Newsroom Headlines
  Features both current and archived news from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

• NASA News and Events
  Official NASA news site featuring the latest news and news features about manned and unmanned space exploration.

• NASA Science News
  News and features about NASA research, aimed at the general public. Includes sections on astronomy, space science, beyond rocketry, living in space, and earth observation.

• Dryden Flight Research Center
  Official NASA home page for the Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Includes images, videos, and interactive features.

• Goddard Space Flight Center
  Official NASA home page for the Goddard Space Flight Center in Goddard, Maryland. Includes images, videos, information, and a virtual tour.

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
  Official NASA home page for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Los Angeles, California. Includes images, videos, information and interactive features.

• John H. Glenn Research Center
  Official NASA home page for the John H. Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Includes images, videos, information and interactive features.

• Johnson Space Center
  Official NASA home page for the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Includes images, videos, information and interactive features.

• Kennedy Space Center
  Official NASA home page for the Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Florida. Includes images, videos, information and interactive features.

• Langley Research Center
  Official NASA home page for the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Includes images, videos, information and interactive features.

• Marshall Space Flight Center
  Official NASA home page for the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Includes images, videos, information and interactive features.

• NASA Ames Research Center
  Official NASA home page for the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. Includes images, videos, information and interactive features.

• Space Center Houston
  Official NASA home page for Space Center Houston, the official visitor's center at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Features visitor information about attractions and exhibits.

• Stennis Space Center
  Official NASA home page for the Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi. Includes images, videos, information and interactive features.

• International Space Station (ISS)
  Official NASA home page for the International Space Station. Features images, videos, and extensive mission information.

• NASA Consolidated Launch Schedule
  NASA's Launch Schedule features the planned dates and details for missions by NASA and the partner nations in the International Space Station Program, including Russia, European Space Agency and Japan.

• NASA Human Spaceflight
  Features coverage of current International Space Station missions. Also includes links to past space flights, Mars exploration, and more.

• NASA Human Exploration & Operations
  Official NASA home page for the Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate. Features images, videos, and extensive mission information.

• NASA Official Space Shuttle Page
  The official NASA Web site for the space shuttle program. Includes news, reference information, and detailed mission profiles for all missions.

• KSC Space Shuttle Launch Archives
  Features details of every space shuttle mission including achievements, launch, and crew details from the John F. Kennedy Space Center.

Astronauts

• Association of Space Explorers
  As the only professional association for space fliers, ASE supports the advancement of space exploration by providing opportunities for communication among space professionals at the international level.

• The Astronauts Memorial Foundation
  Honors and memorializes those astronauts who have sacrificed their lives for the nation and the space program by sponsoring the national Space Mirror Memorial, and by implementing innovative educational technology programs.

• Mercury 13 - The Women of the Mercury Era
  Learn the story of the 25 women, narrowed down to 13, who participated in and passed the very same physical and psychological tests that determined the original astronauts.

• NASA Astronaut Biographies
  Provides biographical information the members of the space flight crews and candidates for future missions in NASA's manned space flight program.

• Mars One
  Mars One hopes to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. Crews of four will depart every two years, starting in 2024. Our first unmanned mission will be launched in 2018.

• The Mars Society
  The Mars Society aims to further the exploration and settlement of the planet Mars through public outreach, support for government-funded Mars research and exploration, and private-enterprise Mars exploration and settlement

• The National Space Society
  The National Space Society has a vision of people living and working in thriving communities beyond the Earth, and the use of the vast resources of space for the dramatic betterment of humanity.

• Space Adventures
  Space Adventures' vision is to open space flight and the space frontier to private citizens by arranging flights to space for more people than have made the journey since the dawn of the Space Age.

• The X Prize Foundation
  The X PRIZE Foundation mission is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity, thereby inspiring the formation of new industries and the revitalization of markets that are currently stuck due to existing failures or a commonly held belief that a solution is not possible.

• NASA's International Space Station Page
  This is NASA's official page for the International Space Station, featuring crew and mission information, articles, news, images, and video.

• ESA's International Space Station Page
  This is the official page of the European Space Agency (ESA) for the International Space Station, featuring information, articles, and news.

• ISS Tracker
  This interactive online application allows you to track the current location of the International Space Station on a map. It shows the latitude, longitude, altitude, and speed of the station.

• Space Station Photo Gallery
  This is a searchable ISS database featuring thousands of videos and high resolution images. You can search by mission and event.

• Armadillo Aerospace
  Armadillo Aerospace is a leading developer of reusable rocket powered vehicles. We are focused on VTVL (vertical takeoff, vertical landing) suborbital research and passenger flights, with an eye towards eventual paths to orbit.

• Blue Origin
  Blue Origin is a privately funded aerospace company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal of dramatically lower cost and increased reliability.

• Interorbital Systems
  An American aerospace company based in Mojave, California. It was founded in 1996 by Roderick and Randa Milliron, who also co-founded Trans Lunar Research.

• Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC)
  Developer of space systems and hybrid rocket technologies and creator of the Dream Chaser, a winged and piloted orbital commercial spacecraft.

• SpaceX
  SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.

• Virgin Galactic
  As the world's first commercial space company, Virgin Galactic is working to developing commercial spacecraft and aims to provide suborbital spaceflights to space tourists, suborbital launches for space science missions, and orbital launches of small satellites.

• Encyclopedia Astrononautica
  Encyclopedia Astronautics is a huge searchable database of space history, including rockets, spacecraft,launch vehicles, astronauts, cosmonauts, space flights, engines, and more.

• NASA History Program Office
  The NASA History Program Office was first established in 1959 (a year after NASA itself was formed) and has continued to document and preserve the agency's remarkable history through a variety of products.

• NASA Project Mercury Home Page
  NASA's official home page for the Mercury program, featuring mission information, history, interactive features, image archives, and video archives.

• NASA Project Gemini Home Page
  NASA's official home page for the Gemini program, featuring mission information, history, interactive features, image archives, and video archives.

• NASA Project Apollo Home Page
  NASA's official home page for the Apollo program, featuring mission information, history, interactive features, image archives, and video archives.

• NASA Project Skylab Home Page
  NASA's official home page for the Skylab program, featuring mission information, history, interactive features, image archives, and video archives.

• NASA Space Shuttle Home Page
  NASA's official home page for the Space Shuttle program, featuring mission information, history, interactive features, image archives, and video archives.

• Italian Space Agency (ASI)
  The Italian Space Agency was founded in 1988. Its purpose was to coordinate all of Italy's efforts and investments in the space sector that had begun in the 1960s.

• United Kingdom Space Agency
  The UK Space Agency is an executive agency of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and at the heart of UK efforts to explore and benefit from space.

• Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
  Established in March 1989, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is committed to leading the development and application of space knowledge for the benefit of Canadians.

• Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
  Founded in 1961, the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) is the government agency responsible for shaping and implementing France’s space policy in Europe.

• European Space Agency (ESA)
  The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe's gateway to space. It's mission is to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
  Official home page for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Their mission is to reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so that what we do and learn will benefit all humankind.

• Romanian Space Agency (ROSA)
  The missions of ROSA are to promote and coordinate development and national efforts in the field, and, as a Government representative, to promote international cooperation.

• Boeing Delta Launch Vehicle Information
  Information about the Delta launch vehicles from Boeing. Delta II comprises a group of expendable rockets that can be configured as two- or three-stage vehicles and with three, four or nine strap-on graphite epoxy motors depending on mission needs.

• NASA's New Space Launch System (SLS)
  The U.S. Space Launch System, or SLS, will provide an entirely new capability for human exploration beyond Earth orbit. It also will back up commercial and international partner transportation services to the International Space Station.

• Sea Launch System
  The Sea Launch Zenit-3SL system was developed to address the commercial satellite market need for reliable and affordable launch services.

• Space X Dragon Launch Vehicle
  The Falcon 9 is one of the first commercial launch vehicles. It provides breakthrough advances in reliability, cost, flight environment and time to launch.

• United Launch Alliance Launch Vehicle Information
  Information about the Atlas and Delta launch vehicles from the United Launch Alliance (ULA).

Current Missions

• 2001 Mars Odyssey
  2001 Mars Odyssey is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet.

• Cassini Mission to Saturn
  The Cassini spacecraft is currently in orbit around Saturn, performing an up-close study of the ringed planet and its domain. The Saturn System has provided an incredible wealth of opportunities for exploration and discovery.

• Dawn - Journey to the Asteroid Belt
  Dawn, as a mission belonging to NASA’s Discovery Program, delves into the unknown, drives new technology innovations, and achieves what's never been attempted before as it explores asteroids in the main asteroid belt..

• Chandra X-ray Observatory
  NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is a telescope specially designed to detect X-ray emission from very hot regions of the Universe such as exploded stars, clusters of galaxies, and matter around black holes.

• Juno Mission to Jupiter
  Juno will improve our understanding of the solar system’s beginnings by revealing the origin and evolution of Jupiter. It will study Jupiter's atmosphere, and magnetic field to try to understand how the giant planet formed.

• Kepler - A Search for Habitable Planets
  The Kepler Mission is designed to survey our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover Earth-size and smaller planets near the habitable zone and determine how many stars in our galaxy that might have such planets.

• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
  The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched August 12, 2005, is on a search for evidence that water persisted on the surface of Mars for a long period of time.

• Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
  LRO will spend at least a year in a low polar orbit approximately 31 miles (50 kilometers) above the surface of the Moon, searching for safe landing sites, locating potential resources, measuring radiation, and testing new technology.

• Mars Science Laboratory
  The Mars Science Laboratory mission set down a large, mobile laboratory, known as Curiosity, at Gale Crater on Mars. Curiosity continues to explore the Red Planet looking for signs of life.

• Mars Exploration Rovers
  Although Spirit stopped communicating in 2010, Opportunity continues to explore the Martian surface making new discoveries and sending back amazing images of the Red Planet.

• New Horizons Mission to Pluto
  In 2006, NASA dispatched an ambassador to the planetary frontier. The New Horizons spacecraft is scheduled to flight past the icy planet Pluto and its moons in July 2015.

• Solar and Helioshperic Observatory (SOHO)
  SOHO, the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory, is a project of international collaboration between ESA and NASA to study the Sun from its deep core to the outer corona and the solar wind.

• Spitzer Space Telescope
  The Spitzer space telescope is designed to detect infrared radiation, which is primarily heat radiation. It is the largest infrared telescope ever launched into space, and has sent back amazing images of previously hidden regions of the universe.

• Euclid Space Telescope
  Euclid is a European Space Agency (ESA) mission designed to accurately measure the expansion history of the universe and the growth of cosmic structures. Currently scheduled to launch in 2020.

• Insight Mars Lander
  InSight will place a single geophysical lander on Mars to study its deep interior. It will also help to understand the processes that shaped the rocky planets of the inner solar system (including Earth) more than four billion years ago. Currently scheduled to launch in March 2016.

• James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
  Formerly known as the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), the James Webb Space Telescope will be a large infrared telescope with a 6.5-meter primary mirror. It is widely seen as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. Tentatively schedules to launch in 2018.

• Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE)
  The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is a robotic mission that will orbit the moon to gather detailed information about the lunar atmosphere, conditions near the surface and environmental influences on lunar dust. Currently scheduled to launch some time in 2013.

• Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN)
  The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission is set to launch in 2013 and will explore the Red Planet’s upper atmosphere, ionosphere and interactions with the sun and solar wind.

• ESA's Space Telescope Site
  The European Space Agency (ESA) operates this extensive Hubble site, featuring news, information images, videos, educational material, and an online Hubble store.

• Hubblesite
  Hubblesite is a public Web site for the Hubble Space Telescope, featuring news and information about Hubble, information about astronomy, and a gallery of Hubble's best high resolution images.

• The Hubble Heritage Project
  Hubble heritage features an image gallery of Hubble's best images in standard resolution as well as an art gallery of Hubble-inspired artwork.

• HubbleSource
  HubbleSource features a growing collection of resources for educators, developers, interpreters, producers, and other professionals in museums, planetaria, nature centers, observatory & park visitor centers, and other free-choice learning venues.

• NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Page
  NASA's official page for the Hubble Space Telescope features information, links, images, and videos.

• Space Telescope Science Institute (STSI)
  STSI is a free-standing science center, located on the campus of The Johns Hopkins University, that operates the science program for the Hubble Space Telescope.

• NASA Current Missions
  Information and links for all current space missions, including Earth science and planetary exploration.

• NASA Future Missions
  Information and links for upcoming space missions, including Earth science and planetary exploration.

• NASA Past Missions
  Information and links for past space missions, including Earth science and planetary exploration.

• National Archives Space Exploration Timeline
  The National Archives features a space exploration timeline with information about space exploration events from 1957 to the present.

• National Geographic Space Exploration Timeline
  National Geographic features an interactive space exploration timeline with information and images about space exploration events from 1957 to the present.

• Sea and Sky's Space Exploration Timeline
  Sea and Sky features a space exploration timeline with information about space exploration events from 1687 to the present.