print email comment close Encyclopedia Astronautica URL: http://www.astronautix.com/ Description: This website details the history of space exploration, with an emphasis on human missions to space. Brief astronaut biographies are given with links to various spacecraft, boosters, rocket engines, fuels, space programs, and launch sites. Also has descriptions of proposed space programs by both the U.S. and Russia which were never implemented. Other features include women in space and hundreds of photographs and drawings. From a space enthusiast. Author: Wade, Mark Library of Congress Subject Headings: Astronautics -- Encyclopedias Outer space -- Exploration LII Database Information: Record 3655 created by Brian Coburn on 03/21/1999 Last modification on 12/18/2006 Published: 03/21/1999   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/3655