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NASA Space

Instrument and Sensing Technology

Reference Desk

This page is under construction. Lately I've been using the REFERENCE DESK, Resources We like to keep on hand from the NASA Headquarters Library. I'm not regularly keeping this page up to date, and I'm using it to hold features that the NASA Library page doesn't currently offer.

Other Reference Pages

• REFERENCE DESK, Resources We like to keep on hand from the NASA Headquarters Library.
• Reference page from the NASA Headquarters page.

General Internet Directories

• EINet Galaxy
• WebCrawler Select
• Planet Earth
• University of Michigan Clearinghouse
• WWW Virtual Library
• Yahoo
• Yanoff's Connections

Government Information

• The White House
• Searching the Internet ("Surfing the Net") and General Reference Resources from the Advanced Laboratory Workstation System at the National Institutes of Health
• The Constitution of the United States of America
• List of WWW Servers (USA - Federal Government)

NASA and Space Information

• Space Calendar
• The NASA Strategic Plan is now available.
• Space Missions acronym and hyperlink list.
• Terms and Definitions
• The Engineering Guide to the Mission Design Process (Green Book) and the NASA Systems Engineering Process for Programs and Projects (JSC 49040) from the Code 704 Reference Library Page at NASA GSFC. If you've ever wondered a phase B study is ...
• Earth Sensing Placeholder Page
• Instrument and Sensing Technology Museum Guide
• Planetary Tour Guide
• Ground-based Observatory Guide
• Sensor and Instrument Industry/Other Government Contact Information
• Professional Societies
• Additional Information. I have included links to information on other NASA programs and capabilities, other government laboratories, interesting pages, technical museum guides, etc.
• Under Development
  • Molecular Spectroscopy
  • Introduction to Spectrometers

General Information

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations from Project Bartleby at Columbia University.
• Zip+4 lookup given address (from U.S. Postal Service)
• American English Dictionary
• English/Technical Dictionary (not working last time I checked).
• Miscellaneous Dictionary Resources (Languages, Technical, etc.)
• WWW Acronym Server
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Another Thesaurus
• NASA Thesaurus
• Virtual Reference Desk

• The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
• WebElements Periodic Table

Internet and World-Wide-Web Information

• Internet Request For Comments (RFC). The Internet Request For Comments (or RFC) documents are the written definitions of the protocols and policies of the Internet. This page provides entry points to get at the RFCs.
• A Beginner's Guide to HTML
• Creating an imagemap

Return to:

• Instrument and Sensing Technology Page
• Advanced Technology and Mission Studies Division Page
  • The Spacecraft Systems Division has merged into the the Advanced Technology and Mission Studies Division, but we have not yet merged the web pages.
• Mission to Planet Earth
• Office of Space Science
• NASA Headquarters Page
• NASA Page

Created August 22, 1994. Last update: January 28, 1997. Please see my Disclaimer and Web Policy page. Maintained by Gordon Johnston.

The world wide web uniform resource locator (URL) for this page is:

http://ranier.hq.nasa.gov/Sensors_page/RefDesk.html