IMPORTANT. Don't try and view the upcoming eclipse without first learning about eclipse eye safety. Click here to find out about the precautions you need to use when viewing a solar eclipse! You can go here to learn more about the Christmas day solar eclipse from a NASA web site. There is an especially good web page about this solar eclipse at the Space.com web site. {And while there be sure to check out the columns that Larry Niven has written for them.}



The Spaceflight Now web site will be carrying real time information about the re-docking of the Progress transport with the ISS. They will have live video and audio along with frequently updated text pages giving you the latest information about this activity. This is the place I go to when I want up to the minute information about current space missions. Do I need to say more? The NASA Watch web site is another great place for getting information about current space missions. This site has published a number of training manuals used by the astronauts to prepare for their work on the the space station. They make fascinating reading. Check there also for news about other 'goings on' within NASA. Highly recommended. Click here to view the press kits for various ISS missions. Check out the NASA International Space Station web page to learn more about the background for this project. Do you wonder where the Space Station is right now? You can use your browser to view real time maps showing the location of the ISS by going to this link at the NASA Space Link web site or here at the Johnson Spacecraft Center. Please note that your browser must support Java to make use of this satellite tracking software.



Information about the science behind a mission to Pluto and reasons for why delaying a Pluto mission means science lost, not science delayed can be found in the interview I did with Dave Tholen and Bill Bottke about a month ago. Click here to listen to that interview. The Planetary Society has been working to get the Pluto mission reinstated with a timely mission profile. Click here to learn more about the Planetary Society or here to learn more about their work to save the Pluto mission. The plutomission.com web site was responsible for getting thousands of people to write to their congress persons in support of a mission to Pluto. This web site now serves as a focal point for interest and activities associated with this mission.



You can find out more about Allen Steele and his books by going to his web site. You can also find out more about Allen by checking out this interview with him at Science Fiction Weekly or in this interview at Locus Online. You can read "John Harper Wilson" in Allen's anthology Rude Astronauts, published by Old Earth Books. {They have plans to have a web site at this location, but as of tonight - 12/22/2000 - they don't have anything there.} Allen's novel Tranquillity Alternative is set in the alternate universe of "John Harper Wilson" and is a really good read. This book was published by Ace Books. You can find out about their other titles by checking out their newsletter.



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