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Directory of pub SPACE SHUTTLE
This is one whole huge directory of space shuttle log entries. Read along and imagine yourself on a mission with the astronauts!

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A Brief History of Rocketry
This page explains how Captain Kirk was able to assemble a weapon that allowed him to defeat the Gorn Captain.
AeroAstro Projects
Another discount space rocket company, they show off six of their past projects here, just to show what they can do.
Air Rocket
This page has a downloadable science project (in Claris or Acrobat format) where you shoot a small rocket and calculate its point of impact. I told you education could be fun.
AMC Debugger Frogs
Applied Microsystems Corporation uses frogs to debug their software. See the rocket frog and others here.
Andoya Rocket Range
Do you want to launch a rocket, but can't pay the exorbitant prices asked by many space centers? Then the Norwegian Space Center is for you!
BHS Computer Projects
This page has an educational bent. Its got an abstract on programming a 3-D rocket simulation. See, education can be fun.
Chesley Bonestell Gallery
Chesley Bonestell specializes in space art. He has a picture of a rocket returning from the moon before anybody ever went there. Psychic!
HPR Launch Information
The University of Arizona site offers information on how and where to launch large rockets. Watch your telemetry!
ISDS AAE Hybrid Rocket Project
Project Prometheus is a project to attempting to build a hybrid rocket motor (works like a candle). They have diagrams for you do-it-yourselfers, too.
Kaiser-Marquardt
One long page promoting a company that makes small rocket engines. Look for pictures and sales.
LunaCity Home Page
The sysop for this site claims he will one day maintain it from the moon. Why think small? Go for half way across the galaxy.
Mrs O'Haver's 5th Grade Book Reports
Young Daniel Powell's book report is on Chuck Yeager: Rocket Jockey. This multi-media report combines text, art, and recording. I think he got an A.
NASA Academy
The NASA Academy is teaching the youth of today to be the rocket jockeys of tommorow. Send your kid to rocket school.
NASA Kennedy Space Center Home Page
Tons of official U.S. Rocket Command Space Program pages on this site, a photo directory, and the STS-70 Countdown page is online. Bonus!
Other Space Agencies through ESA
This page has links to space agencies around the world. Now you can find out what top secret rocket projects are going on in other countries.
Overview of Stennis Space Center
Did you know the Space Shuttle Main Engine delivers 470,000 pounds of thrust. More incredible rocket info is available here.
Phillips Laboratory Success Stories
If you were at the Phillips Lab, you couldn't walk around saying "He's no rocket scientist," because just about everyone there is.
Posies Picture Book Dear 23
The Posies are a band from the Pacific Northwest. They appeared on the cover of Rocket, the Seattle alternative weekly.
Res Rocket Surfer
Billing itself as the first virtual band, Res Rocket Surfer has the cyber gimmmick. But musically? Totally virtual!
Rocket J. Squirrel's Fractured Fairy Tails
Rocket, since his breakup with Bullwinkle, is now DJing a show at KFJC, the best community college punk station in the country.
Rocket Launcher
For all you Magick: The Gathering players, this page lists an artifact card, the Rocket Launcher, and the rules that apply to it. Other card links are here, too.
Rocket propellant performance
For those late nights when you can't figure out what ratio of oxidizer to propellant you should use, it's all here.
rocket science fanzine
Rocket Science 'zine, issue 1, is online. This 'zine isn't by or for physicists and engineers, it's just punk.
Rocket Science Home Page
Rocket Science are game designers extraordinare, with one of the best Web sites. They don't design rockets.
Rocket Shoots
Under the heading "Pastimes of Geeks," comes the subject model rocketry. Read these accounts of various launches.
Rocket1 Home Page
A homepage for some college student. It looks like he was supposed to do it for a class. There's no clue where Rocket1 comes in.
Rocketdyke
A page devoted to a now defunct (I think) zine. There's a couple of cool stills, and a link to dyke resources. Will Elton John rewrite Rocketman?
Rockwell Home Page
Rockwell is the big daddy of corporate rocket scientists, and don't say corporate rockets still suck.
Sargent-Welch catalog.html
A catalog full of science experiments and instruments. Buy the Water Rocket for only 25.95.
Space Shuttles Fact Sheet
The space shuttle in itself isn't a rocket, but it does use rockets to get into space, and some of the facts on this page are about its rockets.
The Black Horse Page
This page covers another top secret military project; this one is to design a reusable space rocket that only has one stage to orbit. Good pictures, and a movie!
The DOOM Adventures of Rocket Jones
Doom, that ever popular game that's fun because you can blow up your friends. Two modules for Doom are available here.
The Risks Digest Volume 4 Issue 70
All text, but there's an article on a Star Wars system accidently shooting down a rocket carrying a sattelite into orbit. Good conspiracy stuff.
Thermospheric and Ionospheric Physics Home Page
Don't let the title intimidate you, this is a top secret Navy site and project where they do rocket experiments.
TRC Activities Catalog
This page lists a bunch of infotainment activities designed by NASA for grades 7 - 12, like how to make a rocket car.
Tripoli Rocket Association
The mission of this association is to provide a resource for high-power rocketeers. But they're only models.
UCF SEDS Project Elkhorn Rocket Program
The mission statement said something about letting students apply their skills. The reality: they get to play with rockets.
Ufos and the New Physics
Read how next-generation physics, learned from UFOs, is going to give us a new rocket science beyond your wildest dreams!
Univeristy of Toledo Circle K Homepage
It seems this division of Circle K uses a cool rocket picture as its official image, but, more importantly, when will the girls from Findlay return Elmo?
Welcome to Huntsville
Huntsville, where it all began. Read about when, in 1950, Wernher Von Braun and his team of rocket scientists founded AmericaÕs space program.
Welcome to SERTS
Yet another NASA site (they've got all the great rocket stuff); this one with info on a rocket launched telescope and spectrograph.