Your online guide to deep space imagery, photos showing the wonders of our universe, and pictures of the earth as seen from space.
Posted by SpaceSightSeer on February 26, 2009 under Collections | 
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The Regional Planetary Image Facility
The Center for Earth and Planetary Studies (CEPS) at the National Air and Space Museum hosts an incredible collection of over 300,000 space-related images. Only a small sampling of these images are actually available on the website, however. Nevertheless, it is a good resource for basic images of the bodies of our solar system.
Posted by SpaceSightSeer on February 22, 2009 under Spacecraft | Be the First to Comment
Stabilo Suborbital Manned Program
The Romanian Cosmonautics and Aeronautics Association were participants in the Ansari X-Prize Competition and remain active in the annual X Prize Cup. Their ORIZONT and STABILO are billed as Europe’s most advanced private manned space programs. This gallery includes images of these craft along with their X-Prize Demonstrators. The Demonstrator 2B rocket, equipped with world first composite materials reusable monopropellant engine ever to fly, was successfully launched on September 9, 2004 from the Cape Midia Air Force Launch Site on the Black Sea shore. STABILO, a two stages manned suborbital air launched vehicle completed three flights until now. The first stage is world largest Solar Montgolfier balloon and the second stage is a rocket powered manned spaceship. First low altitude flights of Stabilo were completed in 2006. In the same year, Mission1 was completed at an altitude of 14.700 m. In 2007 Stabilo’s Mission2 was launched at an altitude of 12.000 m above the Black Sea. The team received flight data via a communication satellite. The landing point was located at 30km (16.2miles) from the launch site.
Posted by SpaceSightSeer on February 19, 2009 under Celestial Events | Be the First to Comment
Comet Shoemaker-Levy Home Page (JPL)
From July 16 through July 22, 1994, pieces of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter. It was the first time a collision between two solar system bodies had ever been observed, and the effects of the comet impacts on Jupiter’s atmosphere were spectacular. Scattered down this page are links to about 1500 images taken by various telescopes and spacecraft of this unique celestial collision.
Posted by SpaceSightSeer on February 15, 2009 under Spacecraft | Be the First to Comment
Bristol Spaceplanes Limited was working to develop the Ascender using off-the-shelf technology to compete for the Ansari X-Prize. This image gallery contains photos of the flight test model. The full scale craft so far has never been developed.
Posted by SpaceSightSeer on February 12, 2009 under Collections | Be the First to Comment
Space.com is known for its coverage of astronomy, exploration, space travel and technology . It is no surprise that the site also offers a wide variety of space image collections related to exploration, discovery, current events and space entertainment.
Posted by SpaceSightSeer on February 9, 2009 under Manned Spaceflight | Be the First to Comment
On September 25, 2008, China launched Shenzou VII for a three day mission. This mission marked an important milestone in the Chinese space program - China becomes only the thirn space-faring nation to sucessfully perform a space walk or extra-vehicular activity (EVA). The spacewalk lasted 20 minutes and was very limited in nature. Astronaut Zhai Zhigang, was tethered to the craft and movements were restricted to remain near the hatch. A relay satellite was also released during the mission. A photo gallery related to this mission is available courtesy of China Central Television (CCTV) providing a rare glimpse into the Chinese space program.
Posted by SpaceSightSeer on February 6, 2009 under Deep Space Imagery | Be the First to Comment
University of Alabama Department of Physics and Astronomy
The front page may look old school, but the content makes a visit worthwhile. The images here form a nice collection of galaxies, quasars and other deep space objects.
Posted by SpaceSightSeer on February 5, 2009 under Celestial Events | Be the First to Comment
The Total Solar Eclipse of 1995
Fred Espenak of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Phyiscs led a group to Dundlod in the Thar Desert, Rajasthan, India, to observe the total solar eclipse of October 24, 1995. The Japanese Yohkoh Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) also captured partial eclipses during three of its orbits around the earth. This archive documents this rare event.
Posted by SpaceSightSeer on February 2, 2009 under Spacecraft | Be the First to Comment
Lockheed Martin Flickr Photostream
Lockheed Martin has been involved in building some of the best-known machines in the space program including Cassini and the Hubble Space Telescope. These galleries of press release images includes photos and artists conceptions of a variety of air and space vehicles and probes.
China’s First Spacewalk
