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)