Spaceflight links
Russian spaceflight organizations
- RSC Energiya
- Institute of Medical-Biological Problems (Институт Медико-Биологических Проблем – ИМБП): researches spaceflight-related experiments and medical issues; part of the Russian Academy of Sciences (in Russian). SIRIUS international project/Международный проект “SIRIUS”: ground simulations and isolation experiments of long-term spaceflight missions.
- FSUE “TsENKI” (Center for operation of space ground-based infrastructure) | ЦЭНКИ - Центр эксплуатации объектов наземной космической инфраструктуры (and older archived website)
- Glavkosmos: Commercial Space Flights to the ISS
- Russian Federal Space Agency – Roskosmos (Федеральное космическое агентство – Роскосмос) (in Russian)
- Starsem: the Soyuz company
- TsUP – Moscow Mission Control (Центр Управления Полётом – ЦУП) (in Russian) – no longer separate since 2018, subsumed into the TsNIIMash site.
- Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center (Центр подготовки космонавтов им. Ю.А.Гагарина) (in Russian)
ISS
Links to the ISS pages of the main participating space agencies and other organizations involved in the ISS program. These provide much detail about the ISS.
- Canadian Space Agency
- Boeing
- ESA (and Permanent Mission in Russia)
- JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) (and older site version)
- NASA ISS portal
- Houston We Have a Podcast – Space Station episodes (with transcripts).
- ISS On-Orbit Status Reports. Duplicated at SpaceRef.com.
- Human Spaceflight gallery: older version, which is less annoying to use than the Flickr version introduced in 2014.
- Orbital ATK: commercial resupplier
- Spaceref: ISS On-orbit status News – archives to 2013
- SpaceX: commercial resupplier
- Wikipedia: International Space Station main page
Miscellaneous sites
Various professional, enthusiast and hobby sites.
- astroinfo.de: Astronomy site of Thomas Hahndorf (in German).
- Capcom Espace: French enthusiast site (in French).
- China Manned Space: Chinese Government Space Agency (English version of their site). Not part of the ISS program, but they have their own station.
- CollectSpace.com: has a particular focus on collecting space memorabilia
- Encyclopedia Astronautica
- FP Space mailing list
- La estela de Gagarin: by “TALSite” (Carlos L. Borobio, in Spanish)
- Google Arts & Culture: Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics
- Gunter’s Space Page
- International Space Station Archaeological Project (ISSAP)
- ISS Fan Club
- James Oberg: Russian space program expert and journalist/writer. Encyclopedia Astronautica has an Oberg Corner.
- Jonathon’s Space Report: long-running logs of orbital launches.
- Kosmonavtika (in French)
- KosmosNews (in French)
- Le forum de la conquête spatiale: French-language spaceflight forum.
- Loty Kosmiczne (in Polish)
- Manned (piloted) astronautics – figures and facts (no longer updated past March 2015)
- Mir Hardware Heritage: 1995 NASA book by David S. F. Portree
- NASASpaceflight.com: space news and a popular forum.
- NASA Watch: news and critiques of NASA and spaceflight generally by Keith Cowing.
- NPO Intercos: Japanese site for the “Promotion of International Peaceful Cooperation in Space.”
- Orbital Velocity by Derek W. Richardson
- Russia Beyond: tags – Russian space exploration
- Russian Space News: Blog about Russian Space
- Russian Space Web: extensive Russian spaceflight and history site by Anatoly Zak. Articles by him have a section at Popular Mechanics.
- Space 40 Spacecraft Encyclopedia (in Czech)
- Spacecraft “Vostok” and “Soyuz” 7K-OK Control and Instrument Panels
- Spacefacts: extensive spaceflight data and reference.
- Space Launch Report
- Space Patches
- Sven’s Space Place: by Sven Grahn
- The Space Review: various spaceflight articles.
- Space Sleuthing blog: “News and stories about manned spaceflight, past present and future!”
- Tomáš Přibyl (in Czech)
- Soviet/Russian Aviation and Space Collectibles: Alex Panchenko’s Russian space memorabilia
- WorldSpaceFlight
- Эпизоды космонавтики (Cosmonautics Episodes): Sergey Pavlovich Khlynin (Хлынин Сергей Павлович).
- Космонавт Олег Германович Артемьев (Cosmonaut Oleg Germanovich Artem’ev): his personal website
- Космонавтика: статистика (Space statistics) by Anik (admin on NASASpaceflight.com)
- Космическая энциклопедия ASTROnote (Space Encyclopedia ASTROnote); in Russian
- Новости Космонавтики (Novosti Kosmonavtiki – Cosmonautics News): magazine and forum; in Russian
- Космонавт Олег Артемьев – Записки космонавта (Cosmonaut Oleg Artem’ev – Notes of a Cosmonaut)
- Рязанский Сергей Николаевич (Cosmonaut Sergei Ryazanskii): personal site, in Russian
- Космонавтика России/Russian cosmonautics article at РУВИКИ/Ruviki
Fiction
Russian spaceflight-themed stories by various authors, ordered by publication date. Criteria for these is that they must be real-world-based, not science fiction with aliens, etc.
- Red Star, Winter Orbit by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, 1983
- “The Chief Designer” by Andy Duncan, published in Asimov’s, June 2001
- “Hearts in Darkness”: a short story by H. G. Stratmann, published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, March 2002
- “The End of Gravity,” Dan Simmons, 2002
- “Missile Gap” by Charles Stross, 2006
12:11 PM Sunday, 7 January 2024