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Lots of people are sorta interested in spaceflight and what’s happening but haven’t got much time to follow it or don’t know where to go. So before you get bored and close this tab/window…. see if one of the below links sounds interesting.

Some of these are great if you have five minutes and want to get a quick rundown on whats happening, others have so much content that you could spend hours reading.

Here’s a summary of what I’ve found to be the better websites on the internet, and what they cover. This list is by no means complete.

Planetary Exploration (Rovers on Mars, Landers, Orbiters, Exploration Probes)

• Planetary Society Blog – Daily updates on the big events in exploration, and a weekly run down of all the big missions.
• If you find an interesting mission, take a look at that mission’s individual website. Often they’ll have blogs or news updates, and more recently many have been twittering.

Manned Spaceflight (People in space, spacewalks. Space Shuttle, Space Station)

• SpaceflightNow – Good articles, daily updates. The video section is worth the subscription, even if you just get a month subscription during a shuttle mission.

• NASASpaceflight – Concise thorough articles, can be technical at times but breaks the best news first and with all the details. Good source to follow news on Project Constellation (Ares I/Orion) which will replace the Shuttle. The free video section is also very impressive.

Insider info (news before it breaks, technical details, internal documentation)

• Unmanned Spaceflight
• NASASpaceflight – For inside information, NASASpaceflight is again brilliant. An L2 subscription offers an incredible range of videos and information, from internal presentations to shuttle and crew manuals/checklists.