There's a new site that's worth checking out if you're interested in space exploration. Supercluster "is focused on stories of spacecraft, astronauts, and space exploration."
There are three main sections.
Stories is just that, a collection of stories about space exploration. A few examples:
- Falcon 9 Transits the Sun While Mars Watches On
- Keeping ISS Astronauts Safe at 4.76 Miles per Second
- The Case for Building a SETI Observatory on the Moon
In Launches, you can view details of future and past launches. The past launches archive lets you filter the thousands of launches by categories like Military, Science, or Failure.
Astronauts is a database of all 580 humans launched into space (as of this date). Each entry includes photographs and thumbnail information about the person's mission, crewmates, and so on. You can filter on a large number of categories including viewing all non-humans launched into space, like dogs and primates.
This is a wonderful site and could be a serious time sink for any space buffs. It's visually striking, loads fast, and is fun to browse. I'd like to see more information provided for the astronaut biographies, other than just an excerpt from Wikipedia, Given that it's a new site, there may be more information added in the future.
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