Russian Space Links

General Space Links

° Frank Knight's Space Links Page

Daily or Latest News on Spaceflight in English

° Jonathan's Space Report (Jonathan McDowell)
° Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces (Pavel Podvig) -- updated news on all Russian strategic weapons systems
° Spaceflight Now -- focused mostly on U.S. news
° SpaceDaily.Com -- pretty good global reporting
° Space Today.net -- compilation of news from many different sources
° The Space Review -- good on-line weekly journal for various spaceflight-related issues
° collectSPACE -- nice place for news on memorabilia, etc.
° Space Politics -- great blog for current U.S. and international space policy

Daily or Latest News on Spaceflight in Russian

° Novosti kosmonavtiki daily news (prepared by Aleksandr Zheleznyakov, in Russian)
° Posledniye kosmicheskiyenovosti / Latest Space News (also by Aleksandr Zheleznyakov, in Russian)
° 'Rocket Technology' Information System -- updated news on missile development (in Russian)
° SpaceNews.ru -- compilation of space news from various sources (in Russian)
° TsENKI (Center for Operation of Objects of Ground Space Infrastructure) (in Russian)

Resources on Russian Space History in English

° Russian Aerospace Guide (Dennis Newkirk) -- now dated source for ISS information
° Sven's Space Place / Space History Notes (Sven Grahn)
° Soviet Exploration of Venus (Don Mitchell) -- excellent site
° Soviet Deep Space Image Catalog (Don Mitchell)
° Russian Space Web (Anatoly Zak)
° Computing in the Soviet Space Program (Slava Gerovitch) -- good site with interviews
° Kosmonavtka / Suzy's Russian Space Site (Suzy McHale) -- all aspects of post-Soviet Russian space exploration
° MKS: International Space Station (Suzy McHale) -- good source of information on the Russian segment
° Buran (Vassili Petrovich) -- pretty good summaries, English take on the Lukashevich's original Buran site
° Buran -- lots of pictures
° Kosmonavtika (Nicolas Pillet) -- pretty good Russian space site, but in French
° Russian Military Space (the late Maksim Tarasenko)
° N1 Photo Clearinghouse (Greg Bondar) -- lots of photos

Resources on Russian Space History in Russian

° Aerokosmicheskiy portal Ukrainy / Aerospace Portal of Ukraine -- on Ukraine-related space information
° Buran (Vadim Lukashevich) -- incredible website dedicated to every aspect of Buran, graphics heavy site
° missiles.ru (Rocket Technology--News, History, Survey, Photographs) -- on history and current state of Russian missile industry
° Space World: Information on Russian Cosmonautics -- contains the following:
Cosmonautics Encyclopedia (A. Zheleznyakov)
History of Russian/Soviet Cosmonautics (A. Krasnikov)
° Cosmonautics Encyclopedia -- site sponsored by TsNII RTK (a robotics and cybernetics institute based in St. Petersburg) includes
Biographical Encyclopedia
° Test Pilot.ru -- pretty good site on Russian aerospace systems and design bureaus
° Novik Samarskiy voyenno-istoricheskiy klub / Novik Samara Military-History Club -- site for Samara-based space topics
° Space Encyclopedia ASTROnote -- has good history stuff + an on-line library

Good NASA Sites

° NASA History Division
° NASA Human Spaceflight
° International Space Station (ISS) history
° History of Sputnik (NASA)

General Space History Statistics

° Damir's Space Pages (Damir Lozovina)
° Designations of Soviet and Russian Military Aircraft and Missiles -- mostly reliable
° Soviet and Chinese Missiles with DoD/NATO Designations -- mostly reliable
° Gunter's Space Page (Gunter Krebs) -- good source for launch vehicles
° Launch Log (Jonathan McDowell) -- the best and most comprehensive log of orbital launch attempts
° Manned Astronautics, Figures & Facts (Aleksandr Anikeyev) -- Russian source for stats on manned spaceflight
° Spacefacts (Joachim Becker and Heinz Janssen) -- statistics on human spaceflight, astronauts, etc.
° Steven Pietrebon's Space Archive -- launch stats for various countries

Russian Space Organizations

° Federal Space Agency / Roskosmos (in Russian)
° The Space Forces (in Russian here and here)

° Kapustin Yar (in Russian)
° Kosmodrom Baykonur [unofficial site] (in Russian)
° Kosmodrom 'Plesetsk' (in Russian)
° Sary-Shagan [unofficial site] (in Russian)

° AMNTK Soyuz (in Russian)
° GKB Yuzhnoye (in Russian)
° GKNPTs Khrunichev (in Russian)
° GNPRKTs TsSKB-Progress (in Russian)
° GNTs IMBP / Institute for Biomedical Problems (IMBP) (in Russian) (in English)
° GRTs 'KB im. Akademika V. P. Makeyeva' (in Russian) (in English)
° IKI / Institute of Space Research (in Russian) (in English)
° Issledovatel'skiy tsentr imeni M. V. Keldysha / Keldysh Research Center (in Russian) (in English)
° KB Arsenal imeni M. V. Frunze (in Russian)
° KB Khimavtomatiki / Design Bureau of Chemical Automation (in Russian/English)
° KB Khimmash imeni A. M. Isayeva / Design Bureau of Chemical Machine Building Named After A. M. Isayev (in Russian)
° KB Priborostroyeniya (in Russian)
° KB Transmash / Design Bureau of Transport Machinery (in Russian/English)
° Kontsern-PVO Almaz-Antey (in Russian)
° Korporatsiya takticheskoye raketnoye vooruzheniye / Tactical Rocket Armaments Corporation (in Russian)
° IPM imeni M. V. Keldysha / Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics (in Russian) (in English)
° LII imeni M. M. Gromova / Gromov Flight-Research Institute (in Russian/English)
° MAK Vympel' (in Russian)
° MKK Kosmotras (in Russian/English)
° MNIIRE Al'tair (in Russian)
° NII Aviatsionnogo oborudovaniya / Institute of Aircraft Equipment (in Russian/English)
° NII Elektromekhaniki (NIIEM) (in Russian)
° NII Priborostroyeniya imeni V. V. Tikhomirova / Scientific-Research Institute of Instrument Design (in Russian)
° NPO Almaz (in Russian)
° NPO Avtomatiki im. Akademika N. A. Semikhatova (in Russian/English)
° NPO imeni Lavochkina / NPO Lavochkin (in Russian)
° NPO Iskra (in Russian)
° NPO Mashinostroyeniya (in Russian) (in English)
° NPO Prikladnoy mekhaniki / Scientific-Production Association of Applied Mechanics (in Russian) (in English)
° NPO Saturn (in Russian)
° NPP VNII EM imeni A. G. Iosif'yana / All-Russian Scientific-Research Institute of Electromechanics (in Russian/English)
° NPTs Avtomatiki i priborostroyeniya imeni N. A. Pilyugina / (in Russian)
° OAO Motorostroitel' (in Russian)
° OKB Fakel (in Russian)
° OKB MEI / Experimental Design Bureau of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute (in Russian)
° PO Polet (in Russian) (in English)
° RKK Energiya (in Russian) (in English) -- good source of information on Russia-related ISS activities
° RNII Kosmicheskogo priborostroyeniya / Russian Scientific-Research Institute for Space Device Building (in Russian/English)
° TsIAM imeni P. I. Baranova / Central Institute of Aviation Motors (in Russian/English)
° TsNIIMash / Central Scientific-Research of Machine Building (in Russian) (in English)
° TsPK imeni Yu. A. Gagarina / Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (in Russian) (in English)
° TsUP / Mission Control Center (in Russian)
° VNII Transmash (in Russian) (in English)

Russian Media

° Aerokosmicheskiy obzor / Aerospace Review (in Russian) -- great Russian journal dedicated to aerospace issues
° Dvigatel' / Engine (in Russian) -- Russian journal dedicated to jet and rocket propulsion
° Krasnaya zvezda / Red Star (in Russian) -- Russian daily military newspaper, often has space articles
° Kosmodrom (in Russian) -- journal published in Baykonur
° Military Parade (in English/Russian) -- journal of Russian military-industrial complex
° Nauka i zhizn' / Science and Life (in English/Russian) -- popular journal of Russian science
° Nezavisimoye voyennoye obozreniye / Independent Military Survey (in Russian)
° Novosti kosmonavtiki / News of Spaceflight (in Russian) -- the best space magazine in the world
° Voyenno-istoricheskiy zhurnal / Military-History Journal (in Russian)
° Vozdushno-kosmicheskaya oborona / Air-Space Defense (in Russian)
° VPK Teleinformation Net (in Russian)

English Language Spaceflight Publications

° Air & Space Magazine (Smithsonian)
° HPM Publications -- books on rocket-planes
° Spaceflight / Journal of the British Interplanetary Society
° Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly
° Univelt Inc. publishers -- has lots of good (but expensive) volumes on the history of spaceflight
° NASA Technical Reports Server -- search and locate lots of old NASA reports and translations

On-Line Libraries on the Russian Space Program

° Bibliography on Buran (in Russian)
° Epizody kosmonavtiki / Episodes of Cosmonautics (Sergey Khlynin, in Russian) -- huge site with complete texts of many important Russian space books, magazine & newspaper articles, and interviews
° Kosmobiblioteka / Space Library (in Russian) -- has texts of many important Russian space books
° Kosmicheskaya biblioteka / Space Bibliography (in Russian)
° Kosmicheskiy videoarkhiv Ivana Safronova / Space Video Archive of Ivan Safronov
° VideoCosmos -- the best source for video and photos of the Russian/Soviet space program
° Kosmicheskiye publikatsii / Space Publications (in Russian)

° Centennial of Flight essays on the history of spaceflight -- pretty nice summaries
° Primary documents archive for U.S. and Russian manned space program

Deep Space Missions

° Deep Space Chronicle -- NASA publication on all deep space probes ever launched (scroll down to the bottom)
° Deep Space Chronicle -- actual pdf file

° Planetary Sciences at NSSDC -- excellent on-line source for deep space missions
° Voyager Interstellar Outreach Program
° Cassini-Huygens Mission Page (NASA JPL) (ESA)

Museums/Archives/History Organizations/Cities

° Arkhivy rossii -- overview and links in Russian on Russian state archives such as GARF, etc.
° Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences for the Development of the Scientific Contribution of Pioneers of the Mastery of Cosmic Space -- site for Russian commission which organizes annual meetings in Moscow on the history of space flight
° Gagarin Readings -- site dedicated to the annual Gagarin conference on space exploration
° Korolev city website -- (in Russian) (in English)
° Russian aerospace museums
° Central Museum of the Armed Forces (section on aviation and cosmonautics)
° Russian Archives Online (English language sites here and here)
° Russian State Archive of Scientific-Technical Documentation (RGANTD) (in Russian)
° Section on the History of Cosmonautics and Rocket Technology (St. Petersburg) (in Russian)
° Tsiolkovskiy State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics (in English) (in Russian)

History of Russian Science

° Guide to the History of Russian Science (Slava Gerovitch)
° Social History of Russian Science
° Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Other Space Programs

° Go Taikonauts! (Chen Lan)
° Bangladesh Space Research and Remote Sensing Organization (SPARRSO)