Traveling to Space: Today and Tomorrow
Public shows: November 18-19, 2014
If you enjoyed learning about space exploration in our public shows this month, here are some resources in case you want to explore further. Enjoy!
- Future of Space Exploration (video from NASA) [11 minutes]
- Beyond Earth: Expanding Human Presence Into the Solar System (NASA Web Resources; videos, photos, more)
- International Space Station (NASA web site)
- NASA's Spot the Station (predict when the ISS will fly over; sign up to receive email alerts)
- Heaven's Above (set for Madison, WI; predict ISS and other satellite flyovers)
- Heaven's Above (no location set; predict ISS and other satellite flyovers)
- Tour the ISS with Commander Sunita Williams (videos)
- SpaceX (private company contracted to take US astronauts to ISS)
- Boeing (private company contracted to take US astronauts to ISS)
- Virgin Galactic (private company to provide suborbital tourism flights)
- XCOR (private company to provide suborbital tourism flights)
- Blue Origin (private company to provide suborbital and orbital tourism flights; hoping to get a contract to send US astronauts to ISS)
- Sierra Nevada Corporation (private company hoping to get a contract to send US astronauts to the ISS)
- Space Adventures Ltd (private company who works as broker for various space tourism experiences)
- Inspiration Mars (private/public endeavor to do a 2-person flight past Venus and Mars; proposed launch in 2021)
- Mars One (private endeavor to place a colony on Mars; crews of four on one-way flight; book and broadcasts of selection and training to begin in 2015)
