NASA Haughton-Mars Project: program aimed at developing new technologies, strategies, humans factors experience, and field-based operational know-how key to planning the future exploration of the Moon, Mars and other planets by robots and humans.
Ask a Scientist: Living on Other Planets http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/bio99/bio99206.htm
Intro to Planets and Satellites http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/sepo/education/plansat/ssgraphintro.html
Venus Project (useful in colonizing other planets)
comprehensive plan for social reclamation in which human beings, technology, and nature will be able to coexist in a long-term, sustainable state of dynamic equilibrium.
http://www.thevenusproject.com/
http://www.thevenusproject.com/
Space.com is an amazing site http://www.space.com/news/milan_visions_991117.html
Earth’s “Second Moon” http://burtleburtle.net/bob/physics/cruithne.html
Hubble Space Telescope http://hubblesite.org/
We Cannot Colonize the Planets (reasons why) http://spl.haxial.net/universe/colonizing-galaxy/
Space Elevators (no need for rockets) http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast07sep_1.htm
British National space Centre http://www.bnsc.gov.uk/default.aspx?nid=3191
Canadian Space Agency http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/index.html
Danish National Space Center http://spacecenter.dk/
European Space Agency http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html
Indian Space Research Organization http://www.isro.org/
Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency http://www.jaxa.jp/index_e.html
Norwegian Space Centre http://www.spacecentre.no/
Russian Space Agency http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/rsa/rsa.html
Space Agencies and Organizations http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/astroweb/agency.html
Space Weather Network (conditions on the Sun and in the solar wind, magnetosphere, ionosphere and thermosphere that can influence the performance and reliability of space-borne and ground-based technological systems and can endanger human life or health)
Project X (two flights into space in two weeks) http://www.projectx.com/
Planetary Probes History http://www.faqs.org/faqs/space/probe/
Lyot Project (identifying biologically active planets and finding ones that are possibly inhabitable) http://lyot.org/background/
Exploration of Other Planets
– Pioneer Venus Project http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/pioneer_venus.html
– Space Colonization Basics http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/Basics/wwwwh.html
– Colonizing Other Planets: Millennial Project http://www.jmooneyham.com/millp.html
– The Grand Survey of Mars: 1996-2019 A.D. (EXCEPTIONAL SITE!! educational programs from K-12, news on all the probes) http://tes.asu.edu/newsurveyormenu.html
Selection and Training of Astronauts http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/astronauts/training.html
Astronaut Geology Tools (photos and descriptions) http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/tools/Welcome.html
Collecting Moon Rocks During the Apollo Program (tools and photos)
Space News Station http://www.hobbyspace.com/nucleus/HSblog.php
Space Related Resources (EXCELLENT SITE! many related topics) http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/educators/resources/highschool.asp
Space Station Photo Gallery http://www.pbs.org/spacestation/gallery.htm
Astronaut Photography of Earth http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/
Astronaut & Space Travel Memorabilia for Sale http://www.novaspace.com/AUTO/rfts.more.html
Space Disasters and Tragedies http://space.about.com/od/spaceexplorationhistory/a/disasters_space.htm
Space Radio Stations (communicate with astronauts) http://www.hobbyspace.com/Radio/
The Space Show (live broadcast talk radio about space) http://www.live365.com/stations/dlivingston?site=dlivingston
World Space Joke Bank http://www.iol.ie/~manister/space.html
Physics and Astronomy Fun and Jokes http://www.physlink.com/Fun/Index.cfm
Drake Equation (estimating the number of civilizations capable of communication that are in the Milky Way Galaxy) http://www.airynothing.com/smackerels/DrakeEquation.html
Aviation and Space Music Directory http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Social/music/SH16.htm
Space Music (with podcasts) http://spacemusic.libsyn.com/
Space Art on the Web http://www.spaceart.org/
Space Art in Children’s Books http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~jsisson/john.htm
NASA Space Art (galleries showing art from all the different projects http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/spaceart.html
Wikipedia Resources on Space Music http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_music#Notable_artists
Space Computer Games & Quizzes http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/playspace/games.shtml
Space Wallpapers for Computers http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/downloads/wallpapers/
Space Food (EXCEPTIONAL SITE!! see videos on food for long term space travel) http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/living/spacefood/
How Space Suits Work http://science.howstuffworks.com/space-suit.htm
Clothing on Other Planets (surprise!) http://www.goma.demon.co.uk/space/clothes.html
Visiting Other Planets (teacher lesson plan) http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/space/
Psychological Preparations and Problems of Space Travel http://www.redcolony.com/art.php?id=0408300
Psychos in Space (staying sane) http://whyfiles.org/124space_station/4.html
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