NASA, U.S. Government, non-U.S. Government, and International Organizations

U.S. Government Sites: NASA, DoD, and Other U.S. Government

• NASA Sites
  • NASA Home
  • NASA Spinoff Center for AeroSpace Information Technology Transfer Office. The center for transfering NASA technology to industry. Also home to Spinoff, NASA's publication detailing successful commercial applications of space technology.
  • NASA Commercial Technology Network
  • NASA JPL Mission And Spacecraft Library "A public source for information about spacecraft. "
  • NASA Tech Briefs, the website for NASA's technology commercialization effort.
  • JPL's solar system surface map database
  • SpaceWarn Bulletin - What's been launched and where it is.
• Search Services
  • NASA Astrophysics Data System ADS Abstract Service
  • NASA SpaceLinks - "An Aeronautics and Space Resource for Education"; Search every NASA website.
  • NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS), v 2.0
  • NASA WWW Servers
• Centers, Labs, Institutes
  • International GPS Service for Geodynamics
  • Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) Home Page
  • Mid Atlantic Technology Applications Center
  • NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts
  • NASA National Space Science Data Center
  • Ames Research Center - http://www.arc.nasa.gov/
  • Drayden Flight Research Facility
  • Glenn Research Center
  • Goddard Space Flight Center Homepage
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Johnson Space Center
  • Kennedy Space Center
  • Langley Research Center
  • Marshall Space Flight Center
  • Wallops Flight Facility
  • Stennis Space Center
• Educational sites
  • Basics of Space Flight Learners' Workbook - published by JPL/NASA
  • Windows to the Universe - by the University of Michigan
• Grants and other funding sites
  • NASA SBIR/STTR site
  • National Science Foundation SBIR/STTR site
  • Department of Energy SBIR/STTR site
  • Department of Transportation SBIR/STTR site
  • Environmental Protection Agency SBIR/STTR site
  • National Institutes of Health SBIR/STTR site
  • NASA's Cross-Enterprise Technology Development Program (CETDP)
  • NASA Space Science Research Opportunities and Data
  • The Commerce Business Daily - lists notices of proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of government property, and other procurement information.
• Other U.S Government Sites having to do with aerospace
  • The Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation - "The Office of the Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation (AST) is the newest, and only space-related Line of Business within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). "
  • - The AST's Launch Site Directory.
  • The Federal Aviation Administration
  • COSMIC - NASA's Partner for Software Technology
  • The Federal Communications Commission
  • NOAA - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commercial Remote Sensing Satellite Systems Licensing.
  • Space.gov - "SPACE.xxx is a browser-based tool that will provide a common picture of space-related planning information. By accessing the SPACE.xxx domain, users across the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community enterprise will be able to query, browse, retrieve, share, and upload information from multiple organizations, perform integrated planning, and conduct what-if analyses. "
  • U. S. Geological Survey Flagstaff Field Center - Space, The USGS works with NASA in producing maps of the Moon and planets.
• Misc U.S. Government Websites
  • Bureau of the Public Debt Homepage
  • Department of Energy Home Page
  • The Internal Revenue Service - Digital Daily Welcome
  • DTIC - Scientific and Technical Information Network (STINET)
  • Federal Acquisition Regulation's (FAR) Home Page
  • Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Home Page
  • Federal Government Information Resources
  • Library of Congress Home Page
  • National Endowment for the Arts Homepage
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • National Science Foundation - Home Page
  • NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • NOAA Websites Main Page
  • NSF - National Science Foundation
  • The Office of the Clerk, On-Line Information Center, U.S. House of Representatives
  • The United States Senate
  • U.S. Naval Observatory Time Service Department
  • The Offical Time - an on-line clock brought to you by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory - The official keepers of time in the U.S. Also has a number of fascinating exhibits on time, time keeping, and clocks.
  • United States Postal Service
  • United States Treasury
  • US Patent and Trademark Office Home Page
  • US Securities and Exchange Commission
  • US State Department - Policy -Office of Defense Trade Controls (ITAR)
  • The White House
  • Zip Code Lookup and Address Information

U.S. DoD Sites

• Grant Sites
  • DoD SBIR/STTR Home Website - includes Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines, DARPA, BMDO, DTRA, SOCOM, and NIMA.
• Facilities
  • Air Force Research Laboratory - Phillips Site
  • BMDO Home Page
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • Naval Research Laboratory
  • The United States Naval Observatory
  • United States Air Force
  • Hanscom Air Force Base
  • White Sands Missile Test Range
  • Wright-Patterson AFB

International Organizations

• The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA): "OOSA is the focal point of the UN efforts to promote international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space through multi-sectoral programmes with political, legal, technological and educational components."
• The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) - an international voluntary consensus organization of space agencies and industrial associates interested in mutually developing standard data handling techniques to support space research, including space science and applications.
• The Interplanetary Internet Study.
• The International Laser Ranging Service - Supports, through satellite and lunar laser tracking data and related products, geodetic and geophysical research activities.
• The International Telecommunications Union - International telecommunications coordinating body.

Non-US Government Space Agency Sites

• Australian Space
• British National Space Centre
• Canadian Space Agency
• ESA The European Space Agency
• ESTEC The European Space Technology and Research Center (ESA)
• Indian Space Research Organisation
• National Space Development Agency of Japan

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