Spaceflight links
A selection of spaceflight links. These are mainly Russian-related ones (as the Russian program is the focus of this site!), sites that have a Russian spaceflight segment or mention it, some forums I frequent, and link exchanges – listed in alphabetical order.
Online computer translators that can be utilized for the Russian sites are Babelfish, Google and Promt.
Cosmonaut sites
The official sites of real live cosmonauts!! (Not very many, at the moment.)
- Талгат Мусабаев – официальный сайт (Talgat Musabaev – official site)
- Magomed Tolboev
- Franz Viehboeck: Austrian cosmonaut
- Сергей Рязанский: cosmonaut Sergei Ryazanskii (in Russian)
Forums
- CollectSpace: I am here as “kosmonavtka” – I accidentally used a lower-case k when signing on!
- Friends & Partners in Space: registered as “Kosmonavtka”
- NASASpaceflight.com: registered as “Suzy”
- Novosti Kosmonavtiki (in Russian)
- Space.com Discussion Board: registered as “Kosmonavtka”
- The Habitable Zone
Link exchanges
Here are listed the space-related sites that have linked to me.
- Boletim Em Órbita (Bulletin in Orbit) (in Portugese)
- Buran Space Shuttle
- Kosmonavtika (Cosmonautics) (in French)
- Observations: amateur radio and satellites)
- Soviet Web Space by Asif Siddiqi (old site)
- Spacefacts
- Spacenet 99
- SWL-CHMY – Christian Mayer
- Virtual Spaceflight
- World Space Flight
General sites
- Atlas Aerospace
- Computing in the Soviet Space Program (Michigan Institute of Techology)
- Hi-Tech Science: “The world’s largest private space artefact collection!” Includes Russian artefacts
- Konstantin E. Tsiolkovskii State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics
- MARS Center – topics: has diagrams of Russian spacecraft
- Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics (via Archive.org)
- NPO InterCoS – International Cooperation in Space
- Radar map of Star City. The full-resolution download copy is 29.7 MB
- RIAN Novosti: science & technologies news section
- Space Daily: Russian space news
- Star City: Life magazine photo essay from 1997
- Starsem
- The Space Review: “Essays and commentary about the final frontier.”
- USSR Airspace: Alex Panchenko’s space artefacts for sale
- Videocosmos
- Voice of Russia – 40 years of spaceflight
- Bauman Moscow State Technical University: Youth Space Center
Russian-language
- Интернет-выставка: «К 100-летию С.П. Королёва» (Sergei Korolyov 100th anniversary Internet exhibition)
- Космодром Байконур (Baikonur Cosmodrome)
- «Новости Космонавтики» (Novosti Kosmonavtiki – Cosmonautics News)
Personal sites
- “The Chief Designer”: short story by Andy Duncan, about Sergei Korolyov
- Claude Lafleur: science journalist, has a collection of space- and science-related sites (in French)
- Collecting Cosmonaut Autographs
- Computing in the Soviet Space Program: by Slava Gerovitch at MIT
- Cosmonaut Training – “in June, 2000 Jane [Skorina] went to Moscow to do a week of Cosmonaut Training. Here is an exhaustive photo tour of the trip.” (I would love to do this, one day…!)
- Cosmoworld (mostly in Russian)
- Deep Cold: “Secrets of the Cold War in Space, 1959-1969”
- Encyclopedia Astronautica
- Espace Sovietique (Soviet Spaceflight) (in French)
- Female Cosmonauts
- Ivan Safronov’s Space Video Archive
- In Memoriam: The Astronaut/Cosmonaut Memorial Web Site
- James Oberg: Russian space program expert and journalist/writer
- Jonathon’s Space Report
- Kosmonaut
- Loty Kosmiczne (in Polish)
- Manned (piloted) astronautics – figures and facts
- NASA Watch
- N1-L3 Mission Page (Archive.org page): an imagined N1 mission to the Moon; pencil drawings by Serge Gracieux
- RKA Statistics
- Russia in Space: at World Space Flight
- Russian Aerospace Guide
- Russian Space Web
- Space dogs – pages about the first cosmonauts:
- Russian science fiction | Научная фантастика
- Russian Science Fiction & Fantasy | Русская фантастика
- Russian Space History
- The Soviet Exploration of Venus and the Soviet Space Image Catalog
- Space 40 Spacecraft Encyclopedia (in Czech)
- Spacefacts
- Space Launch Report
- Space Online
- Space Patches
- SpacePlace: Art in the Age of Orbitization
- Sven Grahn
- The Hunt for Kosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
- The Worlds of David Darling
- Tomáš Přibyl (in Czech)
- Zarya
Russian-language
- Spaceflights.ru
- История Российской Советской космонавтики (History of Russian-Soviet Cosmonautics)
- Космическая энциклопедия ASTROnote (Space Encyclopedia ASTROnote)
- Космодром «Плесецк» (Plesetsk Cosmodrome): unofficial site
- Орбитальные станции (Orbital Stations)
- Эпизоды космонавтики (Cosmonautics Episodes)
Organizations
This includes various Russian design bureaus and research organizations. I have linked to the Russian versions of the sites as well if the English section is incomplete/out-of-date. There are a huge number of organizations; I have just listed the more familiar ones.
- Energiya, RKK
- Institute of Aircraft Equipment (NIIAO) | Институт авиационного оборудования (НИИАО)
- Institute of Medical-Biological Problems | Институт Медико-Биологических Проблем
- Khrunichev State Research & Production Center
- Molniya, NPO
- Permanent Mission in Russia (ESA)
- Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) | Федеральное космическое агентство (Роскосмос)
- TSKB-Progress
- TsENKI, ЦЭНКИ
- TsNIIMash
- Yurii Gagarin Russian State Science Research Cosmonauts’ Training Center | Российский государственный научно-исследовательский испытательный центр подготовки космонавтов им. ю.а.гагарина
- Yurii Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center: older 1997 version of the site at Archive.org
- Zvezda, RD & PE
Russian-language
- ЦУП (TsUP, Moscow Mission Control)