Government Agencies Manned Space Programs Misc Sites
Planetary Probes Special Interest Groups
Government Agencies
NASA

Homepage of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Russian Space Agency

We beat them to the moon, now we're working together on the ISS

European Space Agency

Maker of the shuttle's old Spacelab component.

Canadian Space Agency

The CSA provided the robot arm and hand for the ISS

China National Space Administration

The third country to put humans in space

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

JAXA is an ISS partner

Manned Space Programs
International Space Station

NASA site for this multinational outpost in space

Space Shuttle

The first reusable space vehicle.

Project Constellation

What NASA intends to replace the shuttle with in 2015

Welcome to the International Space Station

Video tour of the ISS

Misc Sites
Encyclopedia Astronautica

the most complete resource for space history

Heavens Above

A satellite tracking website

Satscape

A JAVA based satelite tracking program

NASA TV

The television network of the United States space agency, NASA. The network airs a large amount of educational programming, and provides live coverage of an array of manned missions.

Great Images In NASA

A collection of over a thousand high-resolution images of significant historical interest. This collection is intended for the media, publishers, and the general public looking for high-quality photographs.

Nasa Images

A service of Internet Archive ( www.archive.org ), a non-profit library, to offer public access to NASA's images, videos and audio collections. NASA Images is constantly growing with the addition of current media from NASA as well as newly digitized media from the archives of the NASA Centers.

Spaceflght Now

the leading source for online space news

Space Telescope Science Institute

STSCI is the administrative body for the Hubble Space Telescope.

Chandra X-Ray Obervatory

Comptom Gamma Ray Observtory

NASA Shuttle Mission Patches

Images of shuttle mission patches

List of shuttle missions

From Wikipedia this list includes all US Space Shuttle Missions and the one and only by the Russians

Space Weather

This site tracks atmospheric disturbances.

collectSPACE

The Source for Space History and Artifacts

Space Shuttle Tribute [HD]

This short film is one of several pieces created for the 2010 Rotary National Awards for Space Achievement Foundation's Stellar Awards Gala

STS-132 Ascent Highlights

Awesome video of the May 14 2010 launch of STS-132 (last scheduled flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis). Produced by NASA's Shuttle Engineering and Integration Team. Also has some footage of the April 21 rollout from Vehicle Assembly Building to Pad 39A.

Go for Launch!

Time lapse video showing what it took to get Discovery ready for STS-131. Six weeks of work are condensed into less than four minutes of video.

Planetary Probes
Voyager

Launched in 1977, these twin probes continue to return data about the far reaches of the solar system

Cassini-Huygens

Probe and Orbiter to Saturn

Galileo

A now discontinued exploration of Jupiter

Hubble Space Telescope

Scientific Breakthroughs and Breathtaking Images

Magellan

A now discontinued radar mapping of Venus

Mars Pathfinder

NASA's first rover to Mars was named Sojourner and was a part of the 1997 Pathfinder mission.

Pioneer

Historical overview of the first spacecraft to travel to an outer pla

Ulysses

Ulysses is the first spacecraft to study the unexplored region of space above our Sun's poles.

Viking

A now discontinued mission of twin probes to Mars

Phoenix Mars Mission

Launched in the summer of 2007, Phoenix landed on May 25, 2008 near the north pole of the red planet.

New Horizons

Launched in 2006, New Horizons is expected arrive at Pluto in 2015.

Mars Exploration Rovers

Better known as Spirit and Opportunity, these twin rovers landed on Mars in 2004. They continue to operate four years later.

Deep Space Network

An international network of antennas that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions and radio and radar astronomy observations for the exploration of the solar system and the universe. The network also supports selected Earth-orbiting missions.

Special Interest Groups
Shoreline Astronomical Association

A Holland, Michigan based non-profit organization created for the purpose of furthering the enjoyment of amateur astronomy.

Grand Rapids Amateur Astronomical Assocation

Located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the GRAAA maintains the Veen Observatory in the nearby city of Lowell.

Muskegon Astronomical Society

Located in Muskegon, Michigan. the MAS has an observatory