Space Population Totals and Spacecraft status in Sol System

Space Population Totals
and Spacecraft status in Sol System

Human Space Population Totals, status of spacecraft in the solar system, & human space flight links, past, present, and future [links are outdated]:

LunaSpace - SpaceFlight Information and News

Population of Luna - current: 0, high: 2 on Luna surface, 3 in LunaSpace [1969-72]
Apollo Lunar Surface Journal - Transcripts of the Lunar surface EVAs, edited by Eric Jones, with commentary by the Apollo crews. Work in progress, with four of the six missions worked on to date. Utterly fascinating.
Artemis Project - The Lunar Resources Company, a commercial enterprise to establish & operate a permanent manned lunar base.
The Clementine Lunar Image Browser - Lets you look through the Clementine probe's Moon pictures.
International Lunar Exploration Working Group - The ILEWG is working to develop an international strategy for the exploration of the Moon.
The Lunar Almanac - A very useful set of links and information about Luna.
LITech - The Lunar Institute of Technology, established in 2032, has a wide ranging curriculum, including Marine Science. However, the 23 year old university's reputation has been built on the College of Engineering's School of Starship Design. Last updated July 1996.
Luna City - A good source of Lunar links, run by Michael Wallis.
Lunar Base studies - The Planetary Missions and Materials Office page on Moon Base studies by NASA-JSC and contractors. Last updated 5/96.
Lunar Prospector - NASA probe to search for lunar polar region ice among other things. Launched in Jan 1998 and successfully detected lunar ice at both Poles.
The Moon in Science Fiction - Moon SF Bibliography, a work in progress listing Lunar science fiction stories. The latest version is 11/1/97, listing most of the moon-related novels; actively needs the magazine short stories/novellas about the Moon. See what you can add to it!
Should We Return To the Moon?" - The National Space Society (NSS) and ARInternet's forum that will evolve into two topics: should we return to the Moon at all, and if so, before or after the First Martian Expedition.
NSSDC - The Moon - The National Space Science Data Center's Moon information, including all the manned and unmanned missions to date.
Tycho Base - "Tycho Base lies in the brilliant Tycho crater on the Moon's earthside surface. Founded initially to mine heavy metals from Tycho crater, Tycho Base has since grown into a major metropolis." This is a virtual moonbase that you can add to. "If you have an idea for a room in the virtual moon base, please mail it (In HTML format please) to: puseds@expert.cc.purdue.edu or fill out the form below. If we like it, we will add it to the base."

EarthSpace - SpaceFlight Information & News

Population of EarthSpace
- Flatlanders: 6 billion+
- LEO (Low Earth Orbit): current - 10 (Mir+Columbia 25), high - 13 (set in March 1995), varies from 3 to 12.
- GEO (Geosynch Earth Orbit): current - zero, high - never visited
Air & Space Magazine - From the Smithsonian Institute.
The Greatest Adventure - A picture book of space views taken by and captions written by the star-sailors themselves. Sequel to The Home Planet.
Jonathan's Space Report - Jonathan McDowell's weekly update of all launchs from Earth. He is also the editor of the United Nations Registry of Space Objects.
Mir SpaceStation News - The lastest month of news about the Russian space station, compiled by Chris v.d. Berg. Mir-22 crew launching in July.
- The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission will be the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid. Due to launch between February 16 - March 1 1996 (15-day launch window), it will rendezvous with Asteroid 433 Eros in January 1999. Click on the Overview icon for the mission summary, trajectory, and tech data.
Space Agencies & Organizations - Including 11 Space Agencies.
NASA's Space Shuttle - Flight schedules. Columbia 20 landed July 6th. Atlantis 17 in orbit. Columbia 21 to launch on Nov 8, Atlantis 18 on Jan 12, Discovery 22 on Feb 13.
Space Station This Week - The official ISSAlpha Space Station Program Office newsletter.
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs - The Humans' central political space organization. If you are visiting Earth, consider updating the UN Registry of Space Objects - it's the courteous thing to do.
Space Weather - For near-EarthSpace. A solar disk picture updated daily, plus solar activity effects on the geomagnetic field, as well as X-ray, electron and proton flux graphed for the last three days by the GOES 7 & 8 weather satellites in GEOsynch orbit.
X-33 - The NASA/DOD Single Stage To Orbit (SSTO) competition. Phase One design ended in July 1996 after fifteen months; one of three aerospace consortiums, LockheedMartin, will spend less than three years building a prototype vehicle to fly in 2ndQ of 1999. In 2000, the VentureStar fullscale reusable orbiter will start construction and be ready by 2006.

MarsSpace - SpaceFlight Information & News

Center for Mars Exploration - CMEX is the website for Mars information at NASA-Ames.
Mars Direct Home Page - Abley representing the Mars First party, that Earthers should go to Mars directly, not spending the extra years building a moonbase and oxygen factory on Luna first. [I support the Luna First party, and we both oppose the Why Bother At All party.] "Headquarters for the Mars Direct Manned Mars Mission. This is the home page for those people wishing to support a manned Mars mission in the near future. ...Most of the papers were written by Dr. Robert Zubrin, Staff Engineer, Martin Marietta Astronautics." This is an engineering page with nine papers so far detailing the steps necessary to go to and work on Mars.
Mars Multi-Scale Map - A zoom map of central Mars.
The Martian Chronicle - JPL(Jet Propulsion Lab)'s electronic newsletter for Mars exploration.

JupiterSpace - SpaceFlight Information & News

Shoemaker-Levy 9 - Artist's concept of SL 9 comet impact.
Project Galileo - The Galileo orbiter completed a two year mission among the moons of Jupiter and went on to start the two year add-on mission.

SaturnSpace - Information & News

Cassini - Saturn orbiter launched in July 1997, with arrival in Saturn system in July 2004 to begin a sixty-orbit four-year tour of Saturn's moons. Outstanding graphics, randomly switching astronomical art on the homepage, and well-presented information on all aspects of the mission, science, spacecraft, and flight ops make this a great website!

SolSpace - Transiting SpaceFlight Information & News

There are several active probes from Planet III now that the Saturn Cassini probe and others have launched. The Ulysses solar probe is leaving SunSpace after its first Sol flyby, to return in 2000.
Pioneer 10 - Is still sending back data from nine lighthours away, receding at 3 AU, or one-half lighthour, per year into the Kuiper comet Belt, in transSolSpace. Pioneer 11's transmitter will fail in 1996, and is not sending data.

This page was last updated 10/26/98
by the SF LunaEarth Links ^TM creator and maintainer,
the ArachVid, Spike R. MacPhee, spiker@tiac.net.

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