last updated: August 4,
2008
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This is where I go to buy models and model supplies in
person:
Harry's
Hobbies and Collectibles - In Norton, Mass.
250 E. Main St. 508-285-8080
The Spare Time
Shop - In Marlboro, Mass.
Rt. 20E Post Road Plaza 508-481-5786
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Sections:
Space Education
New Horizons Pluto Mission
Real Space Models
Commercial Space Products
Space Facts and History
- by far the biggest section of my links, broken
into sub-categories
NASA Historical
Series Books On-Line
NASA Sites
Misc. stuff, Sci-fi, Fantasy,
etc.
Space
education - for school-age astronauts
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New Horizons
My favorite new unmanned spacecraft. I hope
to have a whole section relted to this subject up
on my web site before too much longer. In the meantime,
here's a few links to sites:
Real
Space Models (commercial and information sites)
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+EVA
Models- My good buddy Chris, owner, operator and "Chief Designer"of
EVA Models has cooked up some really nice models of Apollo-type suits and
other space stuff. (Click here for a link to
a site where you can buy cheap glass domes in a variety of styles for the
EVA figures)
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+Ninfinger
Productions: Scale Models - Sven "Ninfinger" Knudson's incredible space
site. I call it "the best little space site in Texas" but it's really the
best in the whole damn world! More information is available here
on space and space models than any other place on the Net. Includes pictures
of real space hardware and just about every space model that's ever been
made. Also, a HUGE links page. You have to see this place to believe it!
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+RealSpace Models
- Glenn Johnson, probably the most famous space modeler on Earth, has had
his work featured in Fine Scale Modeler magazine several times. He also
runs a very nice resin kit company which specializes in beautifully detailed
models of rockets, space probes, and after production kits to jazz up and
super detail those re-released styrene kits! Nice!!
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+Space
in Miniature - The Space In Miniature (SIM) series of books by Mike
Mackowski are a must have for any serious space modeler. Books are
in soft cover and very affordable.
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+RixWiki
- By Rick DeNatale. "Everything you never knew you wanted to know
about the Mercury Project!"
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+New Ware Models
- By Tomas Kladiva from the Czech Republic. Specializing in top quality
after-market detail sets including photo-etch and decals, as well as many,
many planned kits of boosters both real and those that never made it off
the drawing boards. (Hint: I get almost
all of my resin stuff either from Tom or from Glenn at Real Space Models)
Note
- New Ware Models can now be bought domestically at Victory
Models (see below), which should soothe the jitters some may have about
buying from overseas.
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+Accurate
Models - "very simply, what the name implies. Moreover, it
also implies incredible detailing not usually found in the mass market
production kits from yester-year to today. A kind of reassurance that once
purchased, these kits will astound, educate, and thoroughly delight the
buyer." A division of Custom Miniatures, operated by Jim Key.
A++
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Victory
Models- Domestic distributor for New Ware Models and hopefully more
lines of our favorite space model kits. Support Paul's efforts to
sell space models to us!
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+Tango Papa Decals
- Tom Prestia, the newest guy on the block, is dedicated to getting YOU
the modeler all of your decal needs. From paper to printing, it's
all there. You can send art work of your idea and Tom will get it
printed on decal paper, at scale, for a VERY reasonable price.
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+Space
Monkey Models - A neat start-up company especially for space modelers.
Can you believe it?!!! One of the initial offerings is the Revell
1/24 scale Gemini AND the RealSpae Models upgrade kit for it, together
in one package for $33.50. This kind of price CAN'T be beat.
Get over there and show this guy your support!!
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+Launch Complex
Models - the name says it all. Ross Tierney from the UK is developing
photo etch/resin scale models of all the major launch complexes at the
Cape, and may eventually include those at Baikonour as well. Not
cheap, but these models will be well worth the price for anyone seriously
interested in modeling their LVs within their launch complexes. You
really should check this out!
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+Space Model
Systems - Rick Sternbach sells fantastically detailed decals for the
Saturn V, LM, and CSM in different scales. HIghly recommended.
Also, extensive galleries on such diverse topics as the Mars Machine mockup
project, Star Trek, the Saturn V, and space art.
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Anderson
Models - 1/144 scale launch vehicles in resin, including such things
as the Soviet mini-shuttles, Ariane 1, 3, 4, & 5, HOTOL, Hermes, etc.
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+Spacemodeling.com
- A neat new site from Mark Gray (a really cool guy!) featuring photos
of his own space modeling projects (you HAVE TO SEE his
scratch-built Saturn 1B!), galleries of other modeler's work, and some
excellent reference photos of real spacecraft.
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Mat Irvine's
Smallspace Homepage - Mat's a smashing bloke who flew all the way over
here from Great Britain to debut his book at the 1999 IPMS National show
in Orlando. Check out his book on space and sci-fi models,
The
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Space Models, which has all us
space model guys buzzing!
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+Vincent
Meens' Space Model Web Page - You really have to see this guy's work
to believe it! Included are fully scratchbuilt models, with
cutaways to show the spacecraft inside, of a Soyuz booster in 1/48
scale and an N-1/L-3 in 1/90 scale! Vincent's latest efforts include
a gorgeous scratch built Lunokhod rover, and a seperate site for his Launch
Complex 39 build up, which is a heavily modified Revell kit, with shuttle.
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+A
Plain Old Air & Space Model Page - By Geoff Robertson from Edmonton,
Canada. Includes lots o' pics of the many models he has built of
spacecraft and boosters. Pretty neat!
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APC Hobbies - Here's
a clue: I found the recent re-release of the 1/96 scale Revell Saturn
V here for
$20 LESS than it was selling for anywhere else!
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Victory
Models - Carries all of the New Ware Models line for those who don't
care to order through the international mail.
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Astronautical
Rocketry Club V. M. Komarov - From Slovenia, one of the countries that
was born with the breakup of Yugoslavia. (see also Damir's
Space Pages, from Croatia, below). "The subject of this page
is to present the activites of our club: spacemodeling, high power rocketry,
popularization of astronautics, contest reports etc."
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+Els's
Space Modeling Web Page - A work in progress. Although there's
not a whole lot of space models on there (yet), the humor of this self-proclaimed
"Zen of modeling" is worth the visit! (NOTE: for those who participated
in the SMOKIN' ASTP project, click here
to order your decals)
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Aviapress - Russian
model distributor, featuring the AER
Moldova line, including the 1/144 scale Sputnik and Vostok boosters.
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EBay
Space Models - the one we love to hate! Lots of hard to find
items here at auction.
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The
Space Model Kit Archive - Really cool site, a "must see" for collectors
of vintage space models. Includes descriptions of (almost) every
styrene space model kit ever made, with pics of the box art, too.
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Collect Aire Models
- Lou Maglio has several space-related resin kits, including 1/32 scale
Gemini and Mercury capsules, and most of the lifting body X-planes.
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+ The
Saturn V Clinic - by Rick Sternbach. Detailed instruction on
how to spruce up a Sat V model to make it look more like the real thing.
Also, here you can buy his "Ultimate 1/96 Saturn V Decal Set".
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+My
Little LM - Photos and review of the a finished Vista Replicas 1/32
scale LM, by Mike Smithwick.
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+Scratchbuilding
a 1/96 Saturn V - By Tracy Kornfeld. The ultimate kitbash of
the Revell 1/96 scale Sat V! Unbelievable!
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+"Maquetas"
- "Models" in Spanish! Manuel Escat's page
features some very nice scratch builds. The page is in Spanish, so
if you want to read it in English, use the Alta
Vista Babel Fish link below.
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+ Club
de Modelismo 2000 - "A group of Venezuelan modelers, a mix of
veterans on this area and young scale model bright hopes, organized themselves
to transform this hobby in an art within the reach of everybody, communicating
their message and training the general public, on the fact that scale modeling
is not only gluing and painting parts, but also that once a model is completed,
it contains in itself a story and an effort comparable to the one of a
detective or a scientist because of all the research required to transform
a reality in miniature"
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Galactic Voyager
- Sells space and aviation models, patches, and memoribilia.
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+Accur8 Models Space Models
- Home of the 1/12 Scale Liberty Bell Mercury Capsule Kit. Get 'em
while you can!
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+Fantastic Plastic
- You gotta love that name! Galeries of built models covering the
history of space modeling. Very nicely laid out.
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+Stratosphere
Models - Combination of resin Sci-fi models (mostly of Babylon 5 subjects)
and "Black Projects" military space vehicles.
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+Launch Complex
39 - By Tom Murphy. Tom is building an incredible scratch built
model of LC 39 in 1/72 scale (twice the size of the Revell kit).
Jezz, this thing is nice! Check it out!
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+MilliputMan
- Phillippe Cantin's fantastic original astronaut figures. Includes
one of Eugene Cernan on the moon on Apollo 17, and Chris Hadfield on STS-100.
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Unicraft
Models "Spaceship One" kit - We're all rooting for the little spaceship
that could, built by Burt Rutan at Scaled
Composites LLC. Here's the only commercially available model
of it, along with the White Knight "mothership", in 1/72 scale.
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+Launch Complex
39 - Tom Murphy is building a scratch built 1/72 scale model of LC
39, with all the trimmings. Fantastic!!
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+ BLAP Models -
Gotta love that name!! Their motto is "Building the future, one model
at a time".
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+AXM Paper
Space Scale Models - Great site for fans of models of the paper variety,
which is a rapidly growing segment of the hobby. Also, Alfonso Moreno,
the webmaster, has a truly incredible set of files detailing the markings
on each Shuttle throughout their flight history - very handy for anyone
buidling a Shuttle model.
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+Ken Harman's
"Space is the Place" site - Lots of pictures from Ken's travels to
major space centers.
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+Martin Rasmussen's
Scratch built 1/48 scale Saturn V - What an incredible project, and
it came out beautifully!
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Attic Aircraft Models
- Besides some really cool aircraft, like the Have Blue, etc., they also
sell 1/48 scale kits for the Mercury-Redstone and Atlas, and the Gemini-Tian
II.
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Commercial
Space Products (other than models)
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Buy
Your Own Full Scale Lunar Module! - That's right! You saw it
here first.....
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Moon Pans.com -
These
guys have done an incredible job of assembling many of the pans taken by
the Apollo crews into beautiful posters available for purchase. Just
what us Apollo haeds need for our den walls!!!
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Raumfahrt
Concret Magazine - from Germany. A beautiful magazine dedicated
to space exploration. In the shopping section, you can buy DVDs and
some really stunning illustrations of spacecraft.
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Premiere Space Editions
- specializes in autographed astronaut photos. Also, their "Giant Leap
"
CD looks pretty tasty to an old Apollo freak like me. They also carry books,
moon globes and mission patches.
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The Space
Center - A very informative site on space exploration history, which
also features a space related gift shop where you can buy CDs, models,
books, etc.
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Countdown
Creations & Mag-E-zine - weekly update on all that's happening
in the space exploration biz. Very nicely done! I listed this
site under this category because they also sell some cool shirts n' stuff
with space patches, logos, etc.
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Boggs' Space Books -
Extensive catalogue of publications about space exploration.
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The Space Place
- lots of very rare space memoribilia... bring your check book!
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The Book Djinn -
Specializes in space-related books, including: NASA & Technical Reports,
Children's & Illustrated, and Fiction & Literature.
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+Sven
"Ninfinger" Knudson's Space Modeler's Links Section - you owe it to
yourself to check Sven Knudson's links section for a comprehensive listing
of space modeling web sites, including model dealers and manufacturers,
clubs, personal pages, and museums
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Space
Age Collectibles - Over 200 space patches and decals. Very large
assortment available, US, Russian/USSR, etc.
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Geogallery
- "Historical photographies for sales". Here you can
purchase some very nice prints of original photos of Russian space heroes
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Cargo
Bay Emblems - Here you can buy about a gazillion different space patches!
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Soviet/Russian Aerospace
Memoribilia - Fantastic stuff here from the Soviet Union/Russia
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HPM Publications
- Here you can get books on such diverse subjects as X-planes and the Gemini
paraglider
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Historic Space
Systems - Features some free downloads of tech drawings as well as
more detailed drawings of Apollo and Shuttle control panels in 1:1 scale
for sale.
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Espace Lollini
- "Editor of Space philately-related catalogs and albums. (in other
words, stamps!) World's most complete stock in stamps, covers
and other space collectibles. All are available for purchase."
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Aerospaceguide:
Space Projects and Info - my first link from Ireland, which makes me
pretty happy as my Mom's maiden name was Reilly! Besides the space
shop, also includes information on past and present space programs.
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Paperless
Archives - Offers CD ROMs of a huge assortment of declassified government
documents, including Project
Mercury and the Corona
Spy Satellite program.
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+CollectSpace
- "The Source for Space History and Artifacts". Very nice collector's
site to purchase some cool memoribilia, including many flown items.
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Soyuz Bags - This
is a REALLY NEAT idea! Take Soyuz descent parachutes.........
and make them into hand bags. Ingenious! Most of their products
right now are laptop bags, but more are opn the way.
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Fotosearch:
Galaxies, Stars, and Nebulae - Massive collection of astronomy images
of galaxies, planets, stars, NASA, and much more.
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Space
Toys - Full Scale Lunar Module - Yes, you read it right! Who
wants to buy me one???
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JammyDog Micro Masking
Tape - We manufacture a wide range of micro width tapes, in a range
of top quality materials including Paper, vinyl and reinforced cloth.
While you're there, make sure you check out the Enterprise
E that a guy built, and he masked the entire Aztec pattern with...
You guessed it, JammyDog Masking Tape!
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Space
Facts and History
Apollo
- related
Soviet
lunar program - related
Foreign
- related Space Links: Russian, ESA, etc.
Energiya-Buran
Miscellaneous
NOTE - As a few
of these web sites are in Russian or German, you can use the Alta
Vista Babel Fish translation site to read it in English. You
can even type in the URL of the page you want translated, and this system
will display the page exactly as you see it in your browser with the
words translated for you. Cool!
Apollo
- related
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+The Apollo Saturn
Reference - This site by John Duncan (a real good guy!) has some very
nice technical material on the LMs & CSMs & Saturn rockets &
launch facilities. John is attempting to put several volumes
of Apollo reference material on-line for posterity's sake. (While you're
there, drop him a line and give him an electronic "attaboy" for the fantastic
job he's doing on a very difficult task).
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Don
McMillan's 3D Lunar Rover Project - Fantastic reference on the Lunar
Roving Vehicle! Don has literally built an LRV in 3 dimensions.
He also sells a beautiful poster of his work on this site.
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The
Apollo Image Atlas - Contains thumbnailed images
of
every photo taken on every Apollo mission from Apollo 11 - 17!
Although the images are of low resolution, you can use this atlas to pick
images that you want to order from NASA or find higher resolution copies
on the web. Incredible! Highly recomended!
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+The Lunar Module Data
Page - This important new web page features detailed imagery of the
Apollo Lunar Module by famed space artist Paul Fjeld. This is a must
see for anyone serious about building models of the LM, or anyone who
just loves this incredible vehicle as much as I do.
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My
Apollo Spacesuit Replica - My new buddy Dave Sander is building his
own EMU! Can I have one?
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+The
Saturn V Launch Vehicle Home Page - Great site for Apollo Saturn rocket
enthusiasts (myself included)
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Apollo
Maniacs (!) - by Takeshi Muto. I LOVE this site!
Takeshi has put a LOT of work into the computer graphics on this site,
and it shows. Includes CG models of all the Apollo spacecraft and
the Saturn V. Neat!!!
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Space Suits On-Line
- almost a "sister site" to my Apollo
EMU section, with lots o' pics and info on every American space suit
ever flown from Project Mercury through the Shuttle.
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APOLLO
Manned Missions (Smithsonian NASM) - Nice section with some rarely
seen photos. Caution: some of the photos are BIG!!!
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Apollo Mission
Patches - (Smithsonian NASM) scanned images of real, embroidered patches
from every Apollo mission (not including Skylab or ASTP).
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The Apollo
12 Unofficial Home Page - cute site. Check it out!
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+Tranquility
Base Today - By John M. Burton. Provides a map of the landing
site where Armstrong & Aldrin made their famous footprints, in an attempt
to catalogue every item left behind by the crew. Pretty neat!
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Doug
Smith's "Moonrace" - Some VERY sophisticated graphics on this site
make it look more like an A&E documentary than a web site. Very
handsome. Covers the history of the moon race objectively from both
sides, with nice, concise tables of historical facts and data.
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Contact Light
- By Kipp Teague. "This site, which offers a personal account
of Project Apollo from my perspective as a young teenager at the time,
includes high-quality stills, audio and video clips, and a built-in JavaScript
lunar lander simulator." Take a trip down memory lane back to
the 60's, when school was stopped to watch space events on TV. A
real heart grabber for baby boomer space buffs like me. This site
also includes Kipp's fantastic Apollo
Archive which has become THE place to
go to get the best images from the Apollo missions in super clear high
resolution images.
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Sector Moon
- a new site about Apollo from Valentijn Verbeke, from the Netherlands.
Has some nifty graphics.
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Chad
Blair's Virtual Space Museum - Over the course of one year, Chad visited
most of the important space centers, photographing space hardware.
He has photos from JSC, KSC, Marshall, Michoud Asembly Plant (Sat V S-IC),
the Alabama Space & Rocket Center, and the Sat 1B on I-65 in Alabama.
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Apollo Lunar Landing
Guidance & Control - By Ron Noteborn. Beautiful graphics
highlight this stunning site on "G&C".
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Apollo Powered
Descent and Landing Films - Quicktime movies of all the Apollo lunar
landings, along with some good orientation info about the cameras used
to document the landings.
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+LC 34
- The Apollo's Cradle - by B.J. West, dedicated to the launch complex
at Cape Kennedy which was the site of the Apollo 1 fire and the launch
of Apollo 7.
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+The
Space Cowboy Saloon - Very nicely done site on MSN, but a slow load
due to the large number of high res images that are posted without thumbnails.
Still, a LOT of excellent content. Definitely check it out!
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The
Apollo Landing Sites - Includes coordinates for each landing site,
and progressively zoomed-in shots of them. Cool!
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Exploring
the Apollo Landing Sites - same as above. Neat!
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The
Alan Bean Gallery - FINALLY Apollo 12 astronaut Al Bean's painting
have been put into an on-line gallery! Fantastic!
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Lunar Module
Spacecraft Assembly & Test (S/CAT) Remembered - By Frank Pullo,
one of the Grummies who helped build the LM. YES!
S/CAT is back at a new home. AWESOME!!!!
Soviet
lunar program - related
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Please also refer to my Soviet
Manned Lunar Program links page
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N-1
Photo Clearinghouse - A collection/compilation of every photo of the
Soviet N-1 moon rocket available on the web, along with a good list of
links to all of the N-1 sites on the web.
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Sven's Space
Place - Not to be confused with Sven "Ninfinger" Knudson, this site
is specifically about the Soviet/Russian space program. The "Space
History Notes" section includes the most complete and detailed information,
including photos, of the 4 failed N-1 moon rocket launches going KABOOM!,
among many other very technical and detailed articles.
+N
Odin's Homepage - features photos from his tour of Baikonur Cosmodrome,
including some shots ofthe famous storage sheds built out of N-1 rockets
and a Soyuz TM launch.
Foreign
- related Space Links: Russian, ESA, etc.
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Arianespace - From
the makers of the famous European Ariane rocket.
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European
Space Agency - No explanation required, right?
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Astronautix.com
- Mark Wade's Home Page - the Encyclopedia Astronautica. Features
detailed information on virtually every manned space project ever flown
or even thought about. Tthe technical data on most of these projects is
unmatched on the www. Highly reccomended!
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Friends
& Partners in Space - A group devoted to the study of the Russian/former
Soviet Union space program. Some very famous people hang out here!
Several of the photos on my site were generously donated to yours truly
from this group.
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Russian
Space Web - News and history of USSR/Russian space program
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Go
Taikonauts! An Unofficial Chinese Space Web Site - Apparently, the
Chinese have announced that they intend to start their own manned space
program within a year or two, using a lot of borrowed Russian technology.
So, we'd better start keeping an eye on them!
-
Alexander Chernov's "Virtual
Space Museum" - Sort of a Russian sister site to My Little Space Museum.
Features lots of rare photos of Russian museum artifacts and some really
neat virtual models of Russian space hardware that you can rotate and generally
have fun with!
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Damir's Space
Pages - my space buddy from Croatia, Damir
Lozivina, has set up a neat site that includes a downloadable copy of his
"LAUNCHES" program - a self-extracting DOS database
of every known space
launch in history! Also includes tons of links, all catagorized
into sections.
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+National Archives
for Spaceflight - By Horst Paczkowski, from Germany. In German,
but fairly easy to navigate (Hint: "Raumfahrt" means "Spacecraft")
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The Space Fact Book
- from Germany, with English as well. Literally an encyclopedia of
spaceflight. Includes biographies of all astronauts & cosmonauts,
times & dates of all manned spaceflights & EVAs, and info on all
manned spacecraft. (some sections under construction)
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Space
Suits - Pics of every Soviet/Russian space suit from Vostok
1 thru MIR including the Buran suit.
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Zvezda'a
Space Suits page - from the bureau that has built all Soviet/Russian
space suits.
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+Max Q - from
France. By Marco Cecotti. You'll definitely need Alta
Vista Babel Fish if you don't know Francais.
-
The
Soviet Exploration of Venus - By Don P. Mitchell. This site is
near and dear to me, as I have always been fascinated by the Venera/Vega
landers. Very informative and well presented.
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Shattersnet
space forum - While this is primarily a forum, there are also many,
many great Soviet-space related CGIs done by the members. Pretty
neat!
Energiya-Buran
-
Energiya-Buran -
By K26. Includes a gallery of "all the Buran-Energia images and
video we could find on the web, after lots (and we mean lots) of searching."
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Molniya NPO: Energiya-Buran
- The official web site of the Russian shuttle. Main page in Cyrillic,
with link to "Short English
Version" where you can actually buy the Buran 002 "Analogue" flying
training vehicle for "13 - 17 million US dollars", or one of the BOR mini-shuttles!!!!!
-
Russian Buran Space Shuttle
- Site by the Molniya OKB, which built the vehicle.
-
Scale
Drawings of Energiya/Buran - very nice high res scans of tech drawings
of the infamous Russian shuttle
-
Buran Space Shuttle
- Very well presented site on the Buran, including photos and tech drawings
of every prototype and mockup that was built. Plan to spend at least
a couple of hours browsing through this site!
Miscellaneous
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Space.com
- The name kinda sez it all!
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Florida Today
- Space On-line - for all the latest news about what's happening in
space exploration in the here and now! Very nicely done and informative.
-
+The Field
Guide to American Spacecraft - Jim Gerard's guide will lead you to
the location of every spacecraft ever made, from the X-15 to the the shuttle!
-
The
EVA Worksite - by David S. F. Portree, features detailed descriptions
of literally every space walk in history along with the hardware and personnel
associated with the glorious business of walking outside in space and on
the moon.
-
Deep Cold
- Very cool site that deals specifically with the darker side of space
exploration during the paranoia of the Cold War. Includes information
and some incredible graphics on such military programs as DynaSoar, MOL,
and the Spiral spaceplane, among others.
-
The Universe Today
- "Space Exploration News from Around the Internet" daily updates on every
space story happening, anywahere!
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+Space
Flight Index - By Justin Wigg. Includes info on the N-1, and tons of
info on Apollo 13, including the entire accident report, and more.
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+Spaceline - "Covering
Cape Canaveral Past, Present, and Future"
-
Pcarsola's
photos - on flickr.com - great pics of early space vehicle concepts
-
Jacqman's
Spaceflight History Homepage - Includes a VERY informative section
on space patches - one of the best.
-
Space Talk - an
open forum for talking about anything related to space exploration.
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Red Colony - really
nice looking site about the colonization of Mars
-
The
Pad Rats' Page - by Kim Keller. Incredible detail shots of the
Shuttle and launch complex! Great reference site
-
+
Air and Space Images On-line - by Jason Livingston. Includes
some great pics from some of the lesser known but invaluable space museums
in the US: such as JPL, Vandenburgh Air Force Base, Griffith Observatory,
etc.
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Spacehab
- Makers of the remarkable little hab modules which carry supplies up to
ISS in the cargo bay of the Shuttle!
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+Bob's
PDF Space Documents - Links to every known source for NASA documents
in PDF format.
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The Space
Suit Site - the name says it all!
-
Astrazoic - The art
of Phil Smith, space industry analyst and illustrator. Check out
the beautiful space art here, as well as photos of some sweet space and
sci-fi models Phil has built!
-
Brian's Space Hotlist
- exteremly well compiled list of space-related links! Here
you can find links for web sites dealing with every aspect of space flight.
-
Project
NERVA - We all know about this nuclear rocket project to send a manned
vehicle to Mars back in the 70s. Nice site with some really cool
grafix.
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+The
Tourist Who Wouldn't Shut Up (!) - Ken Glover's neat little site, with
his own photos of virtually every space site in the US. Dedicated
to Toonseman the cat.
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SpacePatches.Info
- Really neat site about one of my favorite subjects!
-
pcarsola's
photostream - Some very rare photos from 60's Viewmaster slides and
other conjectural illustrations of early Apollo hardware.
-
Ingenious
- A grab bag of photos from space exploration - some I've never seen before.
-
+Space
is the Place - Ken Harman's personal photo collection from his trips
to just about every major space facility on the planet.
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Space Mission
Patches - The aim of this sight is to deliver the best possible reproductions
of all manned US space missions from Mercury thru ASTP. Great background
information on the patches, as well.
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Hubble
Space Telescope paper model - The also have other, more elaborate plans
for multimedia models of the HST
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Japanese
Space paper Models site - Sorry - I couldn't find a title for this
page but it must have at least 100 paper space models listed
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NASA
Historical Series Books On-line (Apollo-related)
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- extremely detailed historical
descriptions of the program, the hardware, and the politics of getting
Apollo to the moon. NOTE Bob Andrepont has assmbled links to every available
spaceflight related pdf document on his fabulous site. Click
here to check it out.
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NASA
Sites
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NASA.gov - Jumping-off
point to all NASA sites, links, etc.
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NASA
History Office "Interesting Aerospace History Links" - NASA website
list of non-NASA web pages. In among such places as The Smithsonian
and JPL, you'll find a link for this site, among many others.
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Shuttle
Operational Data Book - Unbelievable refererence for anyone wanting
to build a shuttle model. Features Adobe Acrobat image files
of incredible detail of every surface feature of the shuttle, from every
angle. You will need the Adobe Acrobat reader software loaded on
your PC to access these files. A convenient link to get it is featured
on the site.
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NASA
Office of Human Spaceflight Shuttle Image Gallery
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NASA
Mission Patches - Every NASA manned mission patch that ever was.
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Great Images In NASA (GRIN)
- Nice site with lots of high-res images from all NASA programs.
Not too large a selection. Images were chosen to be representative
of the "best" photos of NASA. The nice thing is that they are available
in high resolution copies.
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JSC
Press Release Images- Large catalogue of images from Alan Sheppard's
first flight right up to the latest shuttle mission
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The
NASA International Space Station page - Can you say "late
and over budget"? Check here for the current status of this long
awaited program.
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Technical
Diagrams and Drawings - NASA site with some nice drawings from Project
Mercury through the Shuttle. Though these are pretty standard fare
for collectors, newbies will find them very helpful.
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Russian
Space Agency NASA Link - Believe it or not!
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Exploring
the moon - Lunar and Planetary Institute site, features detailed info
& some rare pics from the Apollo missions.
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Apollo
Lunar Surface Journal - Tired of pretty Public Affairs pictures?
This place has the gritty details on Apollo lunar surface operations!
Anyone interested in the Apollo program must see this site. Wonderful!
My highest recomendation. GO THERE NOW!!!
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Dryden
Flight Research Center Image Gallery - Home of the X planes.
Great photos.
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NASA
Mission Patches - every manned (NOT STAFFED!) mission patch
from Mercury through the latest Shuttle mission! Check your patch
inventory here. Cool!
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Dryden
Flight Research Center (DFRC) Photo page - Having spent a little time
at Edwards, this is near and dear to me. Lots of great photos of
the X-planes and Shuttle.
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NASA's X-15
web site - The amazing history of this most successful of all X-planes.
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Marshall Space
Flight Center NASA Acronyms - If things like PLSS, LES, and SSME confuse
you, you can look up their meaning here!
Sci-fi, fantasy,
modeling, personal pages, etc. - just for fun!
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InternetModeler.com
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PCModeler.com
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Lunar Models
- Perhaps the oldest and most respected resin sci-fi and space model company.
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Miniatronics -
very nice site for purchasing model electronics (lights, motors, etc.)
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IPMS/USA - the biggest
modeling club in the world. Includes links to many informative sites
related to modeling from around the globe.
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Bay Colony Historical
Modelers - (BayCon) IPMS Chapter
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Aves Studio - Home
of Aves 2 part modeling clay. I got hooked on this stuff at the 2005
IPMS Nationals show!
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Monsters In Motion
- Large super-site selling models from TV & movies of scifi.
These models are truly collector's items, so don't be too put off by the
large sums of money they're asking for them!
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Fred Barton Productions
- The Robot Man. Here you can buy full scale working models of many
of the robots from Sci-fi TV and movies (but, they're not cheap, as you
would expect)
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Cult TV Man's Sci-fi
Modeler's page - Nice guy who recently bent over backwards to help
me out with a modeling problem. Lots of great info on sci-fi models
on this super-site, including super detailing and lighting info.
Tell him I sent you!
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Starship Modeler's
Resource Site - REALLY neat site featuring a TON of information about
all the latest sci-fi models!
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Dave
Sissons' Model Page - a collection of truly stunning scratch built
models of Gerry Anderson's creations.
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"The
Model Citizen" - The ONLY place on the web where I was
able to find detailed information on how to build my Romulan Bird of Prey!!!
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Ex
Astris Scientia - Bernd Schneider's Star Trek site. Huge site
with tons of ST data, pictures, and whatnots.
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2001:
30 Years On- Click here to study the all-time classic sci-fi movie.
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Babylon 5 - (Warner
Bros.) In it's 5th and final season, this show is more popular than
ever! I became a fan last year.
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Babylon 5
- TNT, the new owner of the show.
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Captain Cardboard
- Maker of fantastic resin kits of 2001 space vehicles.
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+Modeling
Space Vehicles - By Dave Williams. Lots of great info on one
of my favorite subjects!
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Micro Mark - "The
Small Tool Specialists". All those crazy little gadgets, tools, and
materials you need to build that show-stopper of a space model, at decent
prices. I've bought lots of good stuff from them. Highly recommended.
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Smooth-On.com - This
is where I buy most of my RTV and resin now, with Thanks to Glenn Johnson
for the tip. VERY fast service and great prices.
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www.WarmPlastic.com
- Check out this site to buy your vacu-former.
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Mission Models Tools
- Home of "The Etchmate" - a must
have for working with photoetch parts.
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Northwest Short Line -
Primarily sells model railroad supplies, etc., but they are also the home
of the world famous "The Chopper II" cutting tool,
an indispensible tool for modeling.
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Eagle II - French
company that is producing some truly beautiful posters of the Eagle transport
from the TV series Space 1999. Neat!
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Build-Stuff.com
- Here you can buy plans and instructions for building vac form machines,
injection molding machines, mold making and casting, etc.
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Sugarcraft.com
- the place to go to buy gold foil and other colored foils for LM's and
all those cool models that use different colored foil! Neat!
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Fine
Homes: Glass Domes - Great site for buying glass domes for displaying
your models. Great prices, great service!
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Mike's
Custom Plastic - "I am a hobbyist who enjoys vacuforming polystyrene
and being creative. When I decided to start this pastime, I collected a
lot of information on it and found that one of the spoilers of this hobby
is that there is a lack of places on the web to buy plastic cheaply and
in large quantities. My goal is to provide the plastic that people want
and need at a fraction of the cost of the big hobby retailers."
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U.S. Plastic Corp
- Another place you can buy styrene sheeting, etc., for model building.
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Astroplane
- "The strategy game for the new millenium".
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Amazing
Figure Modeler Magazine - The "Fine Scale Modeler" of the figure modeling
world!
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Fox Fire Studios
- High tech figure models web site. Specializing in figure models
from Solarwind Productions.
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Monsters Direct.com
- Godzillas, Aliens, Predators, and more, Oh My!!!!
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X-O facto.com - A huge
site of all types of figure kits
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Swapey
- "Where Collectors Meet. Interesting forum-type site
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Silent
Running - Nice little web site about one of my favorite SF movies.
Has a good set of links to other sites of the same subject.
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The
Valley Forge - Great web site with a ton of info on the Valley Forge,
the ship that was the stage for Silent Running.
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The
Robot Hut - This guy builds models of movie robots in 1:1 scale.
VERY cool!!!
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Please email
me if you happen to find any dead links
or other goofs on this or any other page on this site.
Thanks!
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