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ISS links

For convenience, here is a collection of sites about the International Space Station and the people and agencies involved; listed in alphabetical order.

ESA mission websites

Sites for the ESA astronauts who have visited the ISS.

ESA astronaut journals

General & personal sites

ISS crewmember sites

Sites of spacepeople who have lived on or visited the ISS.

  • Ed Lu: NASA astronaut; Expedition 7 member. The site can only be viewed with Flash animation – it loses a few points for that annoyance, as it is impossible to enter it otherwise (i.e. no HTML text links). There isn’t much on here, though, that can’t be found at the relevant NASA sites.
  • Талгат Мусабаев (Talgat Musabaev): official site (in Russian) of the cosmonaut from Kazakhstan, who left the Cosmonauts’ Group on 27/11/03 after being promoted to Air Force Major-General. He commanded Soyuz TM-32.

Organizations

The main participating space agencies and other organizations involved in the program.

Spaceflight participants

Paying private space tourists or spaceflight participants funded by their governments. In order of flight:

  1. Dennis Tito (TM-32): he does not seem to have his own website that I could find; the company that got him into space was MirCorp (whose website is now defunct). Another of MirCorp’s hopeful clients was so-called “Astromom”, Lori Garver. She did have her own site for a while, but it seems to have vanished (it is archived here at Archive.org).
  2. Mark Shuttleworth (TM-34): First African in Space. There is some useful information on Soyuz training: a diary and photo gallery. Mark Shuttleworth also has his own site.
  3. Greg Olsen (TMA-7): Go to Orbit
  4. Marcos Pontes (TMA-8): first Brazillian cosmonaut. (In Portuguese)
  5. Anousheh Ansari (TMA-9): fourth space tourist. She also has a space blog
  6. Charles Simonyi (TMA-10): Charles in Space (warning: high-bandwidth Flash-animated site!) and his blog. He also has a Daylife page
  7. Angkasawan Programme Website (TMA-11): Malaysian participants (called “Angkasawan”)
  8. Richard Garriott’s Space Mission: sixth space tourist (October 2008)

Status Reports

On-Orbit Status (daily)

These are daily detailed NASA Station reports and are a very useful reference as they give details the weekly Status Reports don’t. The On-Orbit Reports were originally published at the Microgravity Research Program Office site, but this closed at the end of March 2002 after running out of funding! It had reports beginning from October 2001. They have appeared at various sites:

The magazines Spaceflight and Novosti Kosmonavtiki both have been keeping daily ISS chronologies from the first Expedition onwards. Spaceflight’s chronology begins in the November 2000 issue; NK’s in its Volume 11, №1 (216), which covers the events of November 2000.

Status Reports (weekly)

The Space Station Status Reports are issued once a week and for special events, and are duplicated at:

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