December
27, 2001
TV
- added entry for Roaring Rockets, devoted to early TV
sci-fi shows.
December
21, 2001
Investing
- added an entry for companies that help students and
small organizations and companies place experiments into space.
December
20, 2001
Collecting
- entry for Aurora Galleries that will sell space & aviation
memoribila.
Rocketry
- entry about Evel Knievel's X-1 Skycycle with a steam rocket
motor.
December
19, 2001
Real
Space - created a new section of the HobbySpace Store
that includes products and services that are directly related
to space
December
16, 2001
News
- began including the column by John Carter McKnight. Also,
started an archive of his articles.
December
12, 2001
Store
- restored the rocketry department with eHobbies products.
December
11, 2001
History
- start a sub-section with links related to the history of
the Chinese space program.
December
9, 2001
Did an external
link check of the entire site. Now have over 13000 external
links. Some sites that seem down at the moment, perhaps for
hardware or system maintainence, may come back on line in
time. So these links remain but with "[Error]" preceding
them.
December
7, 2001
Activism
- new sub-section on legislation that was influenced by space
activists.
December
5, 2001
Books
- entry for Dr. Fred in the childrens space books section.
Tourism
- Image World project to launch game show winners to space.
November
28, 2001
Collecting
- reorganized the Collecting Space pages and added several
new links.
History - entry for
SpaceAgencies.com
Simulators
- Added entry for Moon Tycoon
November
18, 2001
Music
- added entry for Jane Ira Bloom in Music for Space exploration
section.
Space
Science - entry for the American Meteor Society and
the projects in which amateurs can participate.
November
10, 2001
Space
Viewers - part of the Living Space section, these
framed pages provide easy viewing of images and data, much
of which is in real or near real time, of teh Solar Weather,
from Deep Space Probes, and of the Earth.
Space
Science - entry for the Mars student imaging program
at Arizona State Univ.
November
8, 2001
Simulators
- Added entries for the Mojoworld fractal texture software and
in the simulator companies an entry for U n o b t a n i u m
(also entries for this company in the collectibles section.
November
1, 2001
HobbySpace
traffic for October set new highs. As calculated by the host providers
statistics program, the number of visitors exceeded 30,000 for
the first time and the number of pageviews reached 43,000, nearly
8000 above the previous record set in August. Hits were recorded
from 81 countries.
Astronomy
- more about the robotic telescope projects.
October
24, 2001
Astronomy
- entries for the National Schools Observatory program in Britain
and the RoCCoTo robotic telescope at the University Glamorgan.
RLV
Table - reorganized the RLV Links section, moving the table
to a new page and expanding on it.
October
5, 2001
Shopping
- entry for the European Spaceshop
September
25, 2001
Activism/Controversies
- new sub-section for exo-biological contamination issues with respect
to Mars & Europa exploration and sample returns.
September
9, 2001
Music
- entry for The Ride by Jimmie Evans added.
September
8, 2001
Astronomy
- entry about the amateur space station telescope project.
Music
- Wendy Carlos's Digital Moonscapes added to symphonic/classical
section.
Satellite Watching
- entry for the EOSOC - Earther Orbiting Satellite Observers Club.
August
31, 2001
Activism
- new sub-section on Space Angels - millionaire investors in space
projects.
Astronomy
- new sub-section on comet hunting by amateurs.
August
29, 2001
Radio
- entry for the US Naval Academy ground station.
Rocketry
- Kimbo Rocket project with Cal State Long Beach
RLVNews
update.
Satellite Building
- section on companies that arrange launches for small payloads
from schools and amateur groups.
Space
Gazette update.
August
26, 2001
Movies
- entries for some little know space movies of the 1990's
TV - some additional links and
resources on TV space and Scifi series.
August
24, 2001
Collecting
- added entry for Skyforce Space Patches
Space Education, Science
& Technology - added several new sites for asteroid
info and extra-solar planets.
August
21, 2001
EyesInTheSky
- entry for Operational Significant Event Imagery.
Music - entry for
Ramunas Yaras's Space
Odyssey piece for two female voices, flute, violin and cello
(2001).
August
16, 2001
Astronomy-
resources about dark night sky preservation.
RLVNews
update
August
13, 2001
MultiMedia
- images, screensavers, etc. available at the Chandra X-ray observatory
website.
August
8, 2001
Rocketry
- Cal Space Sytems rocketry club added to advanced projects section.
July
31, 2001
Music
- entry about Gemini 6 Christmas "performance".
News - new edition of the Space Gazette.
SciTech - updated the links.
July
16, 2001
Spacelife
- Split the spacelife page into two pages with a the second one
dedicated to life on the Moon, planets and other solar system bodies.
Tourism
- Hans-Jurgen Rombaut's lunar architecture and Moon Hotel designs.
July
13, 2001
MultiMedia
- A section on strange images from the Mars Global Surveyor.
July
8, 2001
Over the past few days I checked
all external and relative links after processing the pages with
my LinkWatch
program.
HobbySpace
now holds over 12,000 external links.
I generally try to find the
correct URLs for dead links, except those in the archives, but this
is often not possible.
In particular, many news article
links, such as press releases displayed at Yahoo and stories at
newspapers, become disconnected over time. Worse, even some of the
space news sites such as Space.com and Spacedaily drop their older
links despite their archival significance.
On the other hand, its common
for a site to go down occasionally for a few days due to maintainence
or a change of host. If I suspect this is the case, I leave the
link but the [ -- Error -- ] tag is left in the link name
so that I can watch the link in case it reappears.
July
2, 2001
Investing
- expanded the section on remote sensing industry.
June
20, 2001
Movies
- entries for Flight to Mars, Spaceways, and First Spaceship on
Venus.
June
14, 2001
History
- links to pages about the Lunar Module at a Long Island history
site.
Models
- added several links to the paper models sections include Fiddlers
Green and spacecraftModels.com.
Simulators
- Added an entry for the free Orbiter space simulator.
June
14, 2001
Rocketry
- Robert Culp's Rocketry Equations page and Dan French's BOMARC
project
Solar Sci-Fi
- An "Inquirer's Guide
To The Universe" site for aspiring hard sci-fi writers.
June
12, 2001
Art
- added an entry for Phil Smith and put one of his images at the
top and on the investing
page.
Rocketry - start
box with list of rocket projects with public logs of their activities.
Simulators
- Added Exoflight. Re-organized the lunar landers into a single
sub-section.
June
7, 2001
Books
- added a sub-section on space magazines.
June
3, 2001
Models
- created a sub-section dedicated to 3D computer models.
History - entry
for Paolo Ulivi's Planetary Exploration site.
June
1, 2001
Space
Art - link to Robert McCall's home site added.
SpaceCasts
- Wallops sounding rocket launch webcasts.
Space Science
- NASA Student Involvement Program. Also, the Mars Society's
Desert Research Station.
May
24, 2001
Space
Science - NearEarth.net added to meteor observation section.
May
20, 2001
Music
- expanded the list of space songs.
May
16, 2001
Rocketry
- entry for Vidroc in the rocketry videos and photos section.
May
8, 2001
Music
- added sub-section on Rap space music.
May
2, 2001
Rocketry
- entries for Armadillo Aerospace and the High Performance Propulsion
Prize.
May
1, 2001
RLV
News - review of the recent Space Access Society meeting.
April
26, 2001
History
- JFK's Rice University speech.
Space
Science - NASA's DIME student microgravity program.
Store - new space foods
section.
April
23, 2001
EyesInTheSky
- entry for NASA's This Planet Earth page of satellite "zoom-ins".
Rocketry
- entry for Aardvark Rockets and Hobbies online store.
Shopping - Final
Frontier Jerky - a tasty treat for space pioneers.
Simulators
- more solar sail simulator links.
April
18, 2001
Contests
- Kistler competition.
History -
The Flight of STS-1 - NASA history site about the first shuttle
flight.
Satellite Building
- Australian JAESAT micro-satellite with Mars Society payload.
April
12, 2001
Movies
- entry for Stowaway to the Moon.
Rocketry
- entry for the Fredericksburg High School, Texas rocketry program.
April
9, 2001
Building
a Weather Satellite Ground Station - extensive new sub-section
to Space Radio describing the building
of systems to receive satellite images.
April
4, 2001
Satellite
Building - an entry for the German LunarSat university project.
April
1 , 2001
HobbySpace
surpassed 20,000 visitors in a single month for the first time.
(No, this is NOT an April Fools joke!) According to my service provider's
Urchin statistics tool, 22,681 visitors saw 29,392 pages in March.
(It defines a unique visitor as a download to a unique IP number
within a half hour.
Note: HobbbySpace does not make or use cookies.)
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March
30, 2001
Satellite
Watching - more info about telescope imaging of spacecraft
and more links to image galleries.
March
29, 2001
Space
Science - entry for the Mars Society's pressurized rover
project.
March
26, 2001
Music
- added an entry for Christine Lavin and a sub-section on Space
Rock.
Satellite Building
- added images and links for the video of the Spoutnik 40 launching.
March
25 , 2001
Collecting
- added FarthestReaches.com to autographs and general collectibles
sections.
Rocketry
- updated the advanced rocketry competitions sub-section.
March
22 , 2001
Satellite
Watching - added Tom Sylvester's FlyOver satellite tracking
program.
March
15 , 2001
Simulators
- Space City One
March
10 , 2001
Music
- added entry about Jonn Serrie.
March
8 , 2001
Simulators
- Lunar Colony simulation in VR section.
February
23, 2001
All external
links checked. Those that were certified dead were removed, while
those that might just be down temporarily are marked with a [--Error--]
marker.
HobbySpace
now holds more than 11000 external links!
February
18, 2001
Future
- a new page on space rocks.
February
12, 2001
History
- Entry for the NACA technical report server.
February
8, 2001
MultiMedia
- Lunar atlas entry.
Rocketry
- added entry for 1021 Design's model rocket CAD software
February
6, 2001
Movies
- entry with links to on-line films
February
4, 2001
SolarSciFi
- added a new sub-section for links to on-line sci-fi. Includes
a new comedy Mars adventure story by Peter Rasmussen.
February
3, 2001
Art
- entry for Arts-Catalyst
Rocketry
- added entries for Peter Alway and his Saturn Press.
January
31, 2001
Music
- added more songs to the space music list.
January
30, 2001
Art
- more about the Red Rover and Envisat art contests.
LivingSpace
- satellite distribution images from STK.
Store - further improvements
including a music and videos sections.
January
25, 2001
Rocketry
- added Estes.
Store - created a virtual
store of products from affiliate advertisers.
January
23, 2001
Activism
- updated the history of activism essay.
Art - small
section on space colony art.
Models - entry
for LinkHobby which sells Russian rocket vehicle models.
Multimedia - added
links to sites with 3D graphics models of space vehicles.[June.3.01
- moved 3D model links to models section.]
Simulators
-Space Station simulators sub-section
January
19, 2001
Books
- added Knollwood used space books to the store list.
Collecting
- expanded the meteorite section with entries on meteorite hunting
and products made from meteorites.
January
13, 2001
GPS
- more links for the recreational subsection. Plus a new
software and maps sub-section.
Movies
- Man Conquers Space short film in the upcoming section.
An entry for Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy section on mistakes made
in sci-fi space movies.
January
8, 2001
Activism
- separated the Space Controversies into it's own page. Expanded
also with a couple more topics.
Space Science
- added the CooperativeSatellite Learning Program.
January
5, 2001
Art
- Zero-G art in space site.
Contests - Mars
Art contest
GPS - GEOCaching and
other recreational activities added.
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