John's Favorite Links

NASA and Space

• Human Spaceflight - NASA's Space Shuttle and Space Station web page
• Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt MD (map)
• Eclipse Home Page by Fred Espenak
• National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
• Center for Earth and Planetary Studies
• Mars Missions from JPL
• CelesTrak WWW - your source for satellite orbital elements
• Views of the Solar System

Target: Earth!

• NASA/Ames: Asteroid & Comet Impacts
• Harvard: Minor Planet Center - Cosmic billiards!
• Univ of Arizona: Spacewatch

• Space Weather Now from the NOAA Space Environment Center
• SOHO
• Solar Terrestrial Dispatch
• Space Weather

Hubble Space Telescope

• STScI: Space Telescope Science Institute
• HubbleSite - from STScI public affairs
• Hubble Space Telescope 10th Anniversary
• Full-size HST Test Vehicle on display at the NASM
• The Hubble Project
• HST Central, STOCC EDOCS
• Launch Mission: STS-31
• Servicing Mission 1: STS-61
• Servicing Mission 2: STS-82
• Servicing Mission 3A STS-103,
• Servicing Mission 3B: STS-109

Time

• Official U.S. Time
• U.S. Naval Observatory Time Service Department
• Dimension 4 - excellent time synchronization software for your PC
• Current time in Baltimore, Maryland

Software

• WinVN - an excellent USENET newsreader program.
• Ghostscript - a freeware PostScript viewer
• NEdit - a great text editor for X-windows
• STSPLUS - an excellent satellite tracking program
• NetLab - a very useful Internet analysis tool. Freeware.
• Xitami - a very nice, free, web server for Windows 95/NT and other OS'es.
• Count - an excellent web page counter. Freeware.
• SETI@Home - search for extraterrestrial signals

News and Weather

• Voice of America gopher
• GIST - television schedules
• Interactive Weather Information Network
• List of recent earthquakes from the National Earthquake Information Center
• U.S. National Debt Clock
• U.S. Population

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