John HIGSON

links to 'Exploration of Space' related web pages

updated 8 January 2004
NASA Rovers on Mars again

Beagle 2 http://www.beagle2.com/ The Beagle 2 project is the British led effort to land on Mars as part of the European Space Agency's Mars Express Mission [to be launched in June 2003], launched, arrived, Express in orbit, and Beagle down (but how hard is the question? (26 Dec 2003)

Star Chaser - Founded in 1992 by current CEO Steve Bennett (Director of Space Technology at Salford University) the company now employs 10 full time staff at its assembly and integration facility in Hyde, Cheshire. UK
http://www.starchaser.co.uk/

NASA
• NASA's Home page http://www.nasa.gov/
• JPL Mars Exploration Rover Mission
• Today at NASA http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/NewsRoom/today.html
• Space Shuttle http://spaceflight.nasa.gov
• NASA centres main home pages http://fly.hiwaay.net/~fbeaver/nasa.html#nasa-main
• The CASSINI Mission http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/
  A joint venture between NASA, ESA (European Space administration) and ISA (Italian Space Agency) to SATURN and one of it's moons TITAN

European Space Administration home page http://www.esrin.esa.it/esa/

• Ariane 5 http://www.esrin.esa.it/esa/ariane/

miscellanious sites
• http://www.afn.org/~afn09444/space/
  Todd Sherman's Spaceflight Resources Page (loads of links)
• http://www.njin.net/~magliaco/
  Primarily a radio ham newsletter put out by John Magliacane, but often carries news updates concerning MIR & the Space Shuttle
• http://www.lunacorp.com/
  Robots on the Moon
  The Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University and LunaCorp are creating a revolution in space exploration: the ability for you to "teleport" to the Moon to explore using the body of a robot. The two-year Lunar Rover Expedition starts with the launch of two rovers in 2000.
• http://www.jamsat.or.jp/scope/index_e.html
  Japanese AMSAT Sattelite from Amsat News

Photographs
• NASA photo album http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/ MARS, other planets etc. etc.
• ASTRONOMY Picture of the Day http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
• HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/Pictures.html