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Bryan Bishop

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Apr 6, 2008, 10:49:25 AM4/6/08

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I will readily admit that this email is a linkdump, but it contains
helpful links to people who are launching rockets, who are doing good
experimental work, and other various websites where you can help out. I
am saddened that Google didn't put a "no, but in all seriousness" link
somewhere, so I have to stand up to the plate to take up for their
slack. Here I go:

Jet engines

Build your own rocket

http://home.total.net/~launch/
http://www.garyjacobs.com/rocketry/aer_rocketry/caramel_candy_propellant.htm
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/Nowicki/SPBI101.HTM
http://library.thinkquest.org/10568/design/main.html
http://members.aol.com/ricnakk/techref.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20011203000627/http://www.im.lcs.mit.edu/rocket/
http://www.n55.dk/MANUALS/N55ROCKETSYSTEM/N55ROCKETSYSTEM.html
http://www.rocket-roar.com/rap/alt.html
http://www.rocketry.org/
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/index.html
http://rocketeers.com/mailman/listinfo/sugpro
http://www.outsideconnection.com/rockets/
http://airbase.ru/users/serge77/alum/alum.htm

Miscellaneous aerospace links

http://www.airtoi.com/ljet.htm
http://www.airtoi.nl/turbines.php3
http://web.archive.org/web/19970126103321/http://banzai.apana.org.au/projects/ausroc/index.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20070410011649/http://www.home.no/andreas.sunnhordvik/English/mechanical/valveless_e.htm
http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/vss/docs/Propulsion/3-how-you-calculate-specific-impulse.html
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ejust/SITCL.html
http://www.pfranc.com/projects/turbine/top.htm
http://www.orbiterwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://aardvark.co.nz/pjet/
http://www.rcdon.com/
http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT05/Papers/Bishop/
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/databases_space.html
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/specimp.html

Space-related competitions

http://regolith.csewi.org/
http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=221
http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/apophis_competition/
http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/
http://education.msfc.nasa.gov/docs/127_usli.htm
http://pisces.uhh.hawaii.edu/competitions.php
http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/challenge/competitions.html
http://www.xprize.org/
http://space.xprize.org/lunar-lander-challenge/

The moon?

http://www.lunarpedia.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/Introduction

Mars

http://spacecraftkits.com/MGSFacts.html
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/
http://www.marspedia.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://web.mit.edu/mars/
http://www.abc.com.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2007/1955437.htm
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mfogg/zubrin.htm
http://www.marssociety.org/portal

Rocketry

http://armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home
http://www.aarg.org/
http://users.telenet.be/H2O2rocketengine/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_v#Astrodynamics
http://ed-thelen.org/rocket-eq.html
http://www.flometrics.com/rockets/rocket_pump/rocketpump.htm
http://www.interfacecontrol.com/microX/
http://www.nar.org/
http://www.osaerospace.com/
http://www.solar-thruster-sailor.info/index.html
http://www.tripoli.org/
http://www.redyns.com/Projects/WhyBotherLauncher.html
http://www.wfvisser.dds.nl/indexEN.html
http://www.apcforum.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=673
http://www.instructables.com/id/E3WJDRO6SKEXCFGJE5/?ALLSTEPS
http://www.wfvisser.dds.nl/EN/rocket_tools_EN.html

Spacecraft design

http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/old_site/academics/akins_laws.html
http://www.asi.org/adb/04/02/
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3e.html
http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/old_site/
http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/publications/pub_index.html
http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/design_lib/design_lib.html
http://www.hellsgeriatrics.co.uk/diy-spacecraft.htm
http://www.contexo.info/DNA_Basics/microsatellite_analysis.htm
http://www.bautforum.com/conspiracy-theories/62859-1st-question-how-apollo-space-craft-cooled.html
http://www.developspace.net/wiki/InterestingLinks
http://www.stmary.ws/physics/97/KGALLAG.HTM
http://web.archive.org/web/20070208102032/http://www.mse.cornell.edu/courses/engri111/space.htm
http://astronauticsnow.com/AstroSpace/
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Aeronautics-and-Astronautics/16-851Fall2003/CourseHome/index.htm
http://www.satnews.com/stories2007/4256/
http://spacecraft.sourceforge.net/
http://www.opensourcespacecraft.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/mmm/msx-related/td1701/huebsch.pdf
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/amsat-bb/200404/msg00179.html
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/22/1422230
http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/index.html
http://krishl.us/spacecraft/
http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~cdhall/Space/archives/cat_design.html
http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/archive/general/bib.html
http://eo.ucar.edu/staff/dward/sao/ceres/design.htm
http://spacelist.org/design.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_design
http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/old_site/design_lib/SC_design_library.html
http://aerade.cranfield.ac.uk/subject-listing/craft3.html
http://www.bautforum.com/conspiracy-theories/62936-thermal-control-spacecraft.html
http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/archive/subsystems/
http://gps.csr.utexas.edu/sdl/index.html

Teams -- they need your support *now*. Many of these are Google Lunar X
Prize teams too.

http://www.2xllunarproject.com/Lunar/Welcome.html
http://acme-robotics.org/index.html
http://www.andrews-space.com/
http://wiki.developspace.net//Apophis_Mission_Design_Project
http://www.atk.com/
http://www.lunarrover.org/
http://faamt.org/
http://www.menominee.edu/RocketWebsite/5clans/home.htm
http://www.frozenfury.und.edu/
http://www.harding.edu/wilson/usli.html
http://www.interplanetaryventures.org/
http://www.lasermotive.com/blog/
http://www.teamcringely.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
http://www.ae.msstate.edu/~msuslp/spacecowboys/
http://www.odysseymoon.com/
http://www.orbital.com/
http://planetarydefense.blogspot.com/2007/10/estimate-at-submissions-for-planetary.html
http://planetarydefense.blogspot.com/2007/01/georgia-tech-undergraduate-teams.html
http://www.spaceadventures.com/index.cfm
http://www.spacedev.com/
http://www.spacex.com/
http://www.speedupworld.com/
http://xprize.frednet.com/
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/organizations/USLI/index_content.html
http://www.transformspace.com/
http://www.eng.uah.edu/~sli/
http://web.umr.edu/~aavg/usli/index.html
http://unreasonablerocket.blogspot.com/
http://chimaera.usu.edu/usli/index.htm
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/USLI/
http://astrobotictechnology.com/
http://www.xcor.com/

Terraforming stuff

http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showpost.php?p=347336&postcount=9
http://quest.nasa.gov/mars/ask/colony/
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-general-04l.html
http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5168&highlight=terraforming
http://spot.colorado.edu/~marscase/cfm/terrabib.html

Long-range: von Neumann probes.
http://heybryan.org/projects/atoms/

- Bryan
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Paul D. Fernhout

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Apr 6, 2008, 12:32:03 PM4/6/08

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That would make a great page to add here:
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--Paul Fernhout

Alejandro

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Apr 6, 2008, 7:32:41 PM4/6/08

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