COOL LINKS
Cool links to different space, science and skepticism websites. You have, of course, all the great NASA links as well as to some of the most stunning space pictures imaginable. Read about a lawsuit brought to an Italian court alleging fraud by the catholic church by promoting the life of Jesus Christ as truth! Links to topics such as physics, nanotechnology, forensic anthropology, the real science of some favorite sci-fi novels, cryonics and lasers ("Frickin' lasers, man!"). You will also find links to the websites of many of our current and previous Space & Science track guests. Enjoy and learn something new!!
- antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod Astronomy Picture of the Day - The number one site for the most stunning astronomical pictures ever.
- www.nasa.gov NASA Online Online home base for every thing NASA related.
- www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasa tv NASA TV! Watch all the major happenings live.
- phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu Reaping success from the ashes of the cancelled Mars Surveyor mission; The Phoenix Lander is currently active on the North Polar region of Mars. Carrying instruments to scoop, look, heat and analyze the polar soil (which is believed to contain water ice) one of it's main functions will be to search for the presence of carbon based compounds which is an essential clue in the search for life - past or present.
- messenger.jhuapl.edu The Mercury Messenger Probe made it's first flyby of Mercury on January 14, 2008. There will be further flybys of Mercury, as well as Venus and Earth, until Mercury orbit insertion which is expected on March 18, 2011. Messenger will be the first probe to actually orbit the planet Mercury.
- pluto.jhuapl.edu New Horizons, the probe to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt launched on January 18, 2006. Planned before Pluto's demotion from planetary status, it's mission to study objects in the outer solar system will provide the most complete data since the Voyager missions.
- saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm The Cassini Probe is still going strong and sending back stunning pictures. Word from Dr. Kevin Grazier is Cassini's mission has been extended through 2011 and he and 2007 Space track guest, John Smith, are working on the proposal to extend the Cassini mission even further. We shouldn't for the ESA's part in the Cassini mission. Check out the ESA Cassini-Huygens site for more information.
- marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home JPL's Mars Rovers site. Keep track of those amazing rovers Spirit and Opportunity.
- http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu Check in on the progress of the StarDust project. How many mini movies did you do?
- genesismission.jpl.nasa.gov Genesis Project - After a spectacular failure in its crash landing, you'll be amazed at the science that has been recovered. They captured solar wind!
- www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/missiondetails/deepimpact A deep space hole in one. How NASA & JPL flew millions of miles to hit an asteroid with a probe the size of a bus. Worth staying awake all night on the 4th of July to see.
- slsd.jsc.nasa.gov NASA's Space and Life Sciences Directorate There's a lot of human science going on at NASA too.
- history.nasa.gov/timeline NASA history timelines - What happened, when and who did it.
- www2.jpl.nasa.gov/ambassador JPL's site for information on their 'Ambassador' program.
- hubblesite.org The Hubble Space Telescope - enough said.
- heritage.stsci.edu Hubble Heritage Project - Another site for fabulous pictures but all taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
- www.astronautix.com NASA's own history office refers people to this site. An amazing grouping of anything and everything having to do with space history.
- www.astr.ua.edu/keel The man responsible for all those great astronomy pictures given away during each year, Bill Keel's site has a link to more of those gorgeous views.
- www.badastronomy.com Bad Astronomy - Website of 2006 guest Phil Plait. He can debunk the myth that the moon landing was real.
- www.celestialgirl.com Ginny Mauldin-Kinney's website - one of JPL's Georgia Ambassadors and a regular Space & Science track guest.
- www.jb.man.ac.uk/~pulsar Pulsars make noise too! Want to know what one sounds like?
- www.lesjohnsonauthor.com Les Johnson, DragonCon Space & Science guest and Manager of NASA Marshall Space Center's 'Space Sciences Programs and Projects Office', has setup his own website. Keep up with Les' life away from NASA. You will find information on his popular science books and check out where he has been speaking and where you can see him in the future – besides DragonCon, of course.
- www.nsbri.org National Space Biomedical Research Institute This group is learning how humans can live and work for long periods of time in space.
- www.orbitalcommerceproject.com George Tyson's Orbital Commerce Project website - he's the guy with the great sub-orbital simulators.
- www.sei.aero SpaceWorks Engineering, Inc. - A.C. Charania and Dr. John Bradford are long time Space & Science track guests.
- space.com Space news, Space images, Space trivia and an online store.
- spacetelescope.org This is the European website for the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble news. Hubble pictures. Hubble projects for kids and teachers. If it's Hubble - it's here.
- www.spaceweather.com/aurora Gorgeous pictures of Aurora Borealis.
- www.spaceweather.com .../nasa meteor radar They're not just cool to look at, they make noise too! Listen to sound of meteors.
- www.amazon.com/Science of Dune The Science of Dune - Dr. Kevin Grazier's latest venture. JPL just can't seem to keep him busy enough and BattleStar Galatica is not in production. Eureka and Zula Patrol still leave him too much time. So what does Grazier do? He writes a book Dune; what else?
- www.amazon.com/Science of Michael Crichton The Cassini probe is doing great. Eureka and BSG are on mid-season break. Dr. Grazier needs something else to keep him busy. The Science of Dune was fun so he decided to do it again.
- www.alcor.org Dr. Merkle is an advisor and Director for this cryonics company. Find out how you can live in the future!
- www.luigicascioli.it Luigi Cascioli has an on-going lawsuit against the Catholic church asking them to prove the existence of Jesus Christ. He has a book on his research on the non-existence of Christ called The Fable of Christ.
- www.merkle.com Dr. Ralph Merkle, our long time expert on nanotechnology and cryonics.
- www.luf.org LUF - This is the website for John Savage, author of The Millennium Project.
- www.physorg.com Great science site covering a multitude of topics.
- sciencedaily.com This site has it all! If it touches on science in any way, you'll find here. Anything from cell biology to black holes – and – it updates 24/7.
- www.scifidimensions.com An Online Sci-Fi Magazine edited by John C. Snider, a 2007 guest.
- www.zyvex.com/nano Dr. Merkle explains nanotechnology.
- madsci.us Space and Science tracks' own Evil Genius himself, Richard (Hawk) Altstatt, has set up a blog for all you mad scientists out there who want to exchange ideas for how to destroy, or even just control, the world.
- ArcAttack.com Favorite entertainment of the Space and Science Tracks crowd; if you have seen/heard ArcAttack you are missing out! These guys build tesla coils and then they make them SING. We keep bringing them back to DragonCon hoping that one of these years they will realize that singing tesla coils are just the kind of entertainment that DragonCon attendees would love.
- www.SciRealm.com One of our Space & Science track yearly attendees has put together his own science information site with over 1500 space & science links, his own stereogram and science calculator programs as well as loads of information on Kryptos, cryptography and his own very elaborate crypto-cypher.
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