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National Space Society
The National Space Society is a powerful U.S. based lobby group that influences prevailing planetary Life Conditions to promote the growth of space exploration and technologies. Features links to an expanding international network of sites, the official NSS publication Ad Astra and a host of educational information. Hosts the International Space Development Conference. Excellent factual material.
The Planetary Society
Founded by the late Carl Sagan, one of the largest space organizations in existence. Plenty of authoritative and educational resources on exploring the cosmos, astrophysics, Young Explorers, astronomy, and the search for extra-terrestrial life and intelligence.
Space.com Space News
Very fun, informative, and up to date site with space news and daily space facts. Features sections specifically devoted to science, business, and Area 51 sightings. Add your voice to the message boards and chat service.
Space Daily.com
Practically the definitive guide to space-oriented news and industry developments, featuring a network of sub-sites as part of the Space Media Network, space media store, reports, essays and press releases. Very clearly laid out site, easy to navigate and find material.
Space News Online
Insightful commentary and analysis on satellite communications; ESA, NASA, and other space agency developments; links to politics and relevant legislation; and developments in space technology and new launch systems. A very solid online offering from the Army Times Publishing Network.
Aviation Week Online
Premier aviation industry analysis magazine is now online, featuring very well-researched global space industry data and analysis. Useful for a wider R&D context. Get the inside story on the latest developments!
The SETI League
An international grassroots organization dedicated to privatizing the Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence. The SETI League is participatory science, researching and developing technologies to provide answers to the perennial question that has haunted humankind: Are we alone?
Organization for the Advancement of Space Industrialization and Settlement
One of the largest chapters of the National Space Society, the Los Angeles based OASIS hosts public lectures, tours, and seminars regarding ways to work towards building humanity's future in space. Other projects include building amateur rockets, and supporting student education and space awareness projects. This site includes details and relevant articles.
Space Studies Institute
Established by the late Gerard K. O'Neill as a research organization, the SSI researches missing technological links that block utilizing the energy and material resources of space. Includes technical and general articles, O'Neill's historic proposals, slides, and 1970s artistic conceptualizations of future space development.
Space Future
A vast site covering space tourism, industries, and future research. An authoritative source for documents concerning cheap space access for the public. Realistic coverage of post-Cold War developments and potential opportunities.
Mars Direct
Homepage for scientist Robert Zubrin (president of Pioneer Astronautics), who co-authored the influential book The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must. Features a wealth of documentation, articles, and scientific papers on the possibility of a manned Mars mission and future settlements.
United Societies In Space
USIS is a non-profit space activist company interested in promoting the growth of offworld civilizations. Future projects include plans for a Moon-base, and developments on Mars and within the Asteroid Belt. Currently, USIS also lobbies the commercial space industry and government bodies to promote these goals.
Artemis Society International
A non-profit organization formed in 1994 to establish a permanent, self-supporting lunar base. Features the mammoth Artemis Data Book, FAQ files and more.
The Lunar Reclamation Society
Non-profit membership organization engaged in public outreach, and associated with the National Space Society. Publishers of the important Moon Miners' Manifesto, which is essential space migration reading.
Space Access Society
The sole purpose of the SAS is to promote radically cheaper access to space. The SAS produces frequent Space Access Updates, with relevant information on developments within the commercial space industry, and hosts an annual Space Access convention.
Space Tourism Society
The STS was founded to conduct research and acquire the necessary financial and political power to make space tourism a viable reality for the general public within the next few decades.
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
An independent, student-based organization which promotes the exploration and development of space. Activities include supporting networks of interested students, providing opportunities for students to develop leadership skills, and direct involvement in space-related projects.
2111 Foundation for Exploration
The 2111 Foundation for Exploration funds innovative research and educational programs around the world. They particularly focus upon links between technology and the environment. Funding for specialist projects or research programs is available.
The Space Frontier Foundation
Dedicated to opening the space millennium, Space Frontier is a savvy activist organization dedicated to transforming the industry from government bureaucracy to a free-market model: "We believe that free markets and free enterprise will become an unstoppable force in the irreversible settlement of this new frontier, and that our world is on the verge of a truly historic breakthrough - cheap access to space."
NASA Watch
Utilized by many news services, this excellent site is fighting a battle against NASA because it was recently denied press accreditation. Have NASA's bureaucrats gone too far?
The Living Universe Foundation
Awesome non-profit R&D organization founded by Millennial Project author Marshall Savage (praised by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Arthur C. Clarke, and Poul Anderson), who developed an achievable eight step program to colonize the galaxy. Current projects include the Aquarius Rising sea colony and the Bifrost Bridge space vehicle launch site. The group is researching mariculture and Ocean Thermal Energy Converter (OTEC) technology, and has been influenced by the pioneering work of R. Buckminster Fuller. The site includes stacks of information, public discussion groups, and multimedia simulations.
The X Prize Foundation
Following the prize model that jump-started the now multi-billion dollar aviation industry, The X Prize Foundation is running a global competition to design the first private spacecraft using leading entrepreneurs and rocket scientists. This site includes up-to-date competition information, funding details, photos and archives.
Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society
Formed in 1993 and based in San Francisco, a non-profit Liquid Fuel Rocket Engine Design and Test Team. ERPS gathers together interested amateurs to learn about, design, build, and test liquid fuel rocket engines. Sounds like a blast!
Island One
Differs from many 'membership' oriented space migration organizations. Libertarian political emphasis. Many resources and links on business finance, international space law, launch and propulsion systems. Includes valuable Space Digest International archive.
The Space Transportation Organization
Represents space vehicle launch systems, testing, services, and design groups. This site features excellent information on commercial space systems, including information on industry standards and government legislation. Maintains close links with Congress, the White House, and the major industry regulatory bodies.
The Right Stuff for the Red Planet
This Salon magazine article (February 16, 2000) profiles MIT scientist Dava Newman's plans for a manned Mars mission.
The True Adventures of a Space Buccaneer
This Salon magazine article (August 30, 1999) profiles SpaceDev founder and activist Jim Benson, who bravely asserts that the future of space migration should not be left up to governments.
International Space Enterprises
Joint U.S./Russian private venture involved in developing lunar tele-robotic vehicles and future lunar missions. Features video archives and TelExplore - an online virtual reality simulation of a Moon Rover mission.
Launch Space
Offers research, training, and consultancy services, as well as a space industry news magazine. Claims: "With a per-issue circulation topping 66,000, Launchspace Magazine is the first and only trade publication to effectively reach the entire group of engineers, scientists and other technical professionals that make up the space industry."
Aerospace America
AIAA's monthly magazine, Aerospace America brings you indepth, analytical coverage of aviation, space, and defense technologies and their implications for both industry and government professionals. Features monthly article excerpts, industry news, links and more.
Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation
The commercial space industry regulatory body of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Develops space transportation policies and long-range commercial launch forecasts.
Zegrahm Space Voyages
Zegrahm Space Voyages has developed a seven day tour planned for July 2002, including a launch-craft that will fly to 100km - official "astronaut altitude" - where the firm claims that weightlessness can be experienced. Also check out the Cosmonaut & Astronaut Training program in Star City, Russia. Could you become one of the first space tourists?
LunaCorp
LunaCorp was formed in 1989 by a group of ex-NASA officials, businessmen and space activists with the common goal of finding non-traditional funding mechanisms for space exploration and development. An excellent site for lunar enthusiasts, make sure to check out the details of the IceBreaker Rover and the planned Grand Apollo Tour. Does ice exist at the lunar poles? LunaCorp intends to find out!
Applied Space Resources
"It's 1999, so where's the Moonbase? And what about that pesky Monolith?" Applied Space Resources is one of several companies rushing to build the first commercial space-flight to the Moon, including archives, scientific experiments and a Lunar Retriever space-craft. An excellent site full of resources . . . and if they do find that Monolith, you will hear about it from us!
SpaceDev Inc
SpaceDev Inc is developing a planned Near Earth Asteroid Prospector (NEAP), which hopefully will be the first private spacecraft to visit and land upon another planetary body. Unlike other companies, SpaceDev Inc is focusing in the short-term on near-Earh orbit missions, and has received classification from NASA as a Mission of Opportunity. Commercial space exploration just became closer to being an everyday reality.
Pioneer Rocketplane
The largest barrier to space is safe and cost-effective launch systems. Pioneer Rocketplane is building a space launch system based upon rocket powered aircraft and applying in-flight propellant transfer to enable inexpensive satellite launches. Offers an alternative to NASA and other international space community operations.
The SpaceDev Institute
A non-profit space access education initiative. "The purpose of the Institute is to perform scientific research, and to research issues and practical solutions related to the opening of space to all of humanity."
TransOrbital
"TransOrbital, Inc. is a private venture dedicated to the commercial development of space. We plan to send our TrailBlazer and Electra missions to the moon early in the 21st century."
Starseed
This little pamphlet, published in 1973 while Dr. Timothy Leary was still a political prisoner, lays out the good doctor's ideas for space migration. A classic, inspiring rant, too long out of circulation. Recommended.
War and Centralisation as Necessary Prelude to Space Migration
Little known Timothy Leary essay from 1976.
2nd Tycoon for Space Flight
This Associated Press story (July 19, 2001), by Sarah Kurush, details the attempt by South African Internet tycoon Mark Shuttleworth to become the next space tourist.
Head of Russian Space Agency Says More Space Tourists Sought
This Associated Press report (July 18, 2001) details the Russian Space Agency's search for more space tourists, after California millionaire Dennis Tito visited the International Space Station in Apri 2001.
Paul Kantner and the Jefferson Starship
These two Runes articles (1983/1984), by Dr. Michael A. Aquino, outline a late 1970s Space Migration project with the Jefferson Starship, and some philosophical musings on the supra-rational power of rock concerts.
Views of the Solar System
Presented in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French versions, this site is a multimedia tour of the wonders of our Solar System. Why go to the planetarium when you can see it all online?
Lunar Colony
The homepage for the World Wide Web's first real Lunar Colony, featuring information on space colonization and science fiction portrayals.
Space Views
Space industry news, photographs, polls and links, deliverable to your email box four times a month. Keep up-to-date with the rapid changes in the growing space migration industry.
Celestis
Celestis offers to launch a symbolic memorial of a loved one into space. Check out the Ad Astra and Earthview services, and the planned Lunar and Voyager missions. Celestis made history by including geologist Dr. Eugene Shoemaker's remains on the NASA Lunar Prospector mission launched on January 6, 1998. You can also track the luanch-craft using SatSpy software.
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