Ok, so the Hubble telescope might not be your idea of boldly going with our X-files and Star Trek's have been.
 
But hey, this is reality and this is about as good as it gets. Very simple site but full of ...........er the Hubble telescope. Some great photos though.
Earth from space
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/earth.html
Fancy some strange and inspiring desktop pictures, well look no further. Admittedly the site is under development BUT the following space shots are available:
Sinai Peninsula, Bangkok Thailand, Mt. Saint Helens, Powder River Wyoming, Cape Cod Mass, North West Alaska, Finger Lakes, Upstate NY, Radar Map of American South West, Grand Canyon (jpeg), Oahu, San Francisco Bay, Malaspina Glacier, St. Elias Range, Portland Oregon.
Not a great selection and none in the UK but you’ll have to take that up with NASA.
VERY basic site but full of information, good links to NASA, MIR and other spacey relevant topics. Does get a little deep at times, but physics was never my forte.
I kid you not Hubble's greatest hits, all the songs, I can hear them now. ‘My space suit is big enough for two’, ‘I drive a 500 tonne space cruiser, get the hell out the way I’ve no breaks babe’ and that unforgettable ‘Stand by your alien’. Ok so it’s not like that.
 
Fantastic photos of all that’s out there. Good site for student and course work plus the curious minded. Again you can get some great desktop photos and add extra life to PhotoShop and 3D art backgrounds.
Russian Space Shuttle that was
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/rsa/buran.html
The Russian Shuttle Buran ["Snowstorm" in Russian], was authorized in 1976 in response to the United States' Space Shuttle program. Building of the shuttles began in 1980, with the first full-scale Aero-Buran rolling out in 1984.
Interestingly enough this site intermixes well with a whole host of other Russian memorabilia and future plans for space are hosted here. You’ll find links to the MIR space station and Russian space rockets.
Funny though how I had to find the information on Russian space flight from a USA government site, but I expect the US government knew more about what the Russians were doing than the Russians, they should do they had enough spy satellites watching them throughout the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s...oh alleged of course.
NASA the next generation of space flight, tickets please!
http://shuttle.nasa.gov./index-m.html
 
I liked this site with its packed content. Explore Mars, what’s the next space shuttle launch and much more. Definitely the best of the sites I visited at 5am and running low on coffee.
Talking of which ‘this is your captain speaking, thank you for flying cheap bucket space lines, put your rubbish in the bags..........where’s that coffee.
Until next month, my warped mouse will be loose again.
