STS 497I Space Colonization Links
Compiled by GROUP 3: Nahks and John Yuda
Catgories are "Public", "Government", "Industry", and "University". Ratings are on scale of 1-5, with 5 being most useful/interesting/informative.
Note from Group 3: We tried to look for ones that weren't right near the top of search engine results, hopefully to give a bit more variety in pages.
Space Future Category: Public; Ratings: usefulness: 4 graphics: 3 overall: 4
The site has a fair bit of useful information: a glossary, a who's who... also seems fairly up on recent news. One caveat, it's a bit slow to load despite relatively few graphics.Life Sciences 3 Category: Government; Ratings: usefulness: 4 graphics: 2 (none, which is better than bad) overall: 4
This site is primarily useful as a collection of links, but also contains some information from NASA. The source is probably reliable.Scorpio Category: University (technologies) Ratings: usefulness: 4 graphics: 4 overall: 4
This site has a collection of very informative and useful essays, most written by professors of astronomy or astrophysics. Good mix of concept art and photographs where appropriate.Settle Category: Public; Ratings: usefulness: 3 graphics: 4 overall: 3
The site has some nice graphics and some interpretation thereof (mostly science fiction art), but the source is of unknown reliability and offers no credentials.AD100 Space Category: University (links); Ratings: usefulness: 3 graphics: 3 (tastefully non-existent) overall: 3
Another decently useful portal site, apparently leads to several professional sites for articles, reference, etc.Space Today Category: Public; Ratings: usefulness: 3 graphics: 3 overall: 3
Nice layout, and links to other sites of relevant interest. Covers a lot of material besides colonization (history, flight, etc).Think Quest Category: Public (student project) Ratings: usefulness: 2 graphics: 3 overall: 3
Generally informative, though some of their articles contain errors (ie, Skylab is apparently still in orbit!). Provide links to images from historic moments in space exploration.Distant-Star Co. Category: Public (special interest group); Ratings: usefulness: 2 graphics: 1 overall: 3
The site is useful as a general interest site, and does collect some news stories and has some thoughtful essays, but gives something of a science fiction feel.Wibe Media Co. No rating.
Under construction. Give them time.