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On January 28, 1986, shortly after launch, the Space Shuttle Challenger blew up. Subsequent investigation determined that NASA had a flawed safety program — and had, in fact, deferred safety in order to increase the number of launches.
Richard Feynman's synopsis, Appendix F (Feynmann was the Nobel-Prize winning physicist who served on the investigating commission), is one of the best summaries of the problems leading up to the accident. It appears in several places on the web. I have also put a formatted copy of the report on this site. There are several other Feynman links on the web. |
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To start learning about the Solar System and space missions in general, it's hard to beat the following links. In each case, someone has (or several people have) gone to a great deal of work to make a tremendous amount of information readily accessible. The Nine Planets Views of the Solar System (Calvin Hamilton, Los Alamos) Chesley Bonestell (Great Illustrator of the Early Space Age) The Planets (NASA Page) This Site Also Has Mirror Sites Lunar Atlas On-Line Plans to Colonize the Moon and Mars Space Settlement Plans and Organizations In 1960, on August 16, Captain Joseph Kittinger parachuted From 102,800 feet as part of Project Excelsior. Here is a listing of his feat in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Chronology. In 2012, Felix Baumgartner broke the record, and Kittinger was part of the team that helped him do it. Col. John Stapp, M.D. (1950's AF Rocket Sled Researcher) Col. Stapp's Research (NASA Info) Corona Program (First spy satellites; information now declassified) Top |
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Aviation Week (Aviation Now) NASA Watch (NOT a NASA page!) Transterrestrial Musings Voyage to Arcturus Space Today Space.Com SpaceRef Space Daily Space Review Cosmic Log SpaceFlight Now TOP |
James Oberg Home Page Bad Astronomy Launchspace Mars News NSS (National Space Society) News Space Access Society Space Daily Missile Defense Site Space Weather.Com |
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Apollo 11 Flight Plan 404 Cassini (Saturn Probe) Deep Space One 404 Galileo (Jupiter Probe) Genesis (Sun Probe) Global Surveyor (Mars Probe) Top |
Mars Pathfinder NEAR (Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) Space.Com Mission Page 404 Space Science Missions (NASA page) 404 SpaceRef Mission Page 404 |
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List of Organizations on Spaceref 404 Aerospace Industries Association of America Association of Space Explorers AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) AIAA Rocky Mountain Section Artemis Project 404 AST (Assoc Administrator, Commercial Space Transportation -- FAA) Brown University Planetary Geology Commission to Assess US National Security Space Mgmt and Organization FINDS (Foundation for the International Non-Governmental Development of Space) Mars Academy Mars Society Mars Society Art Downloads 404 National Space Biomedical Research Organization NSS (National Space Society) Planetary Society Planetary Society Australian Volunteers Pioneer Astronautics (Bob Zubrin's company) ProSpace Share Space Foundation Space Access Society Space Frontier Foundation SpaceLine Inc. Space Policy Institute Space Studies Institute Space Transportation Association Think Mars University of Washington Earth and Space Sciences US Space Foundation X Prize Foundation Top |
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Meteor Hazards (Local Disk) NASA's Near-Earth Object Program, with a report and a summary https://spacefrontier.org/projects/completed-projects/thewatch/ http://www.au.af.mil/au/afri/aspj/apjinternational/apj-s/2009/1tri09/barbeeeng.htm Spaceguard Survey Looks for Killer Asteroids (Copy On Local Disk) Planetary Defense (DoD Study on Stopping Killer Asteroids) Spacewatch (Looks for Asteroids and Comets) Asteroid & Comet Impact Hazards Meteor Craters Site I and Site II and Site III and Site IV (all Calvin Hamilton) Another Meteor Site CSICOP Article on Killer Asteroids Planetary Society Near-Earth Object (NEO) Page NASA NEO Page Five Worst Mass Extinctions Space.Com 7 Sept 2000 Top |
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About.Com Aerospace Page About.Com Space Page Aerospace Power Journal AltaVista Astronomy Links AltaVista Space Links Astronaut Biographies Aviation Week Sourcebooks Basics of Space Flight Braeunig Basics of Space Flight JPL British Interplanetary Society Dogpile Astronomy/Space Element Sets Links Excite Astronomy & Space Links Federation of Am Sci Policy James Oberg Home Page JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Launch Cost Discussion Lycos Astronomy Links Lycos Space Links Top |
NASA Official Page NASA History Page NASA Sci-Tech Info NASA Sonic Boom Page Research Aircraft X-1 to X-15 Rocket Science 101 Links SOFIA Stratospheric Observatory Space Biology (NASA) Skywatch (Locate Space Station) Space.Com Planet Info Space FAQs SpaceRef Directory X Prize Space Links Yahoo Astronomy Yahoo Aviation/Astronautics Yahoo Scientific Constants Yahoo Space |
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