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10 Commandments of Astronauts: ASHOS and ASCANS site shares the rules for astronauts in training.

1967 Outer Space Treaty: Ramifications to exploring Mars or other celestial bodies with possible life, as decreed by Outer Space Treaty under Earth law; Space laws and treaties; U.S. Space Objects Registry.

50th Anniversary of NASA: NASA was founded in July, 1958. 50th Anniversary celebrated in July 2008.

50 Year Mission Map: Graphic of all missions into space by all nations with space programs for the last 5 decades.

50 Years Since President Eisenhower established NASA: Story of the founding of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

2009 International Year of Astronomy: IYA2009 worldwide

2010 International Year of BioDiversity: IYB2010 worldwide

2011 International Year of The Solar System: IYB2011 worldwide

365 Days of Astronomy: Pillownaut Podcast on website with space-related radio show each day of the year.

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Alien Contact: Advice for first contact with alien life; the Drake Equation; tinfoil hat controversy; thought helmets for alien signal blocking; UN advice to all nations to draft guidelines for First Contact.

All-Time Space Missions Map: Visual of every space mission ever flown by ever nation between 1959 - 2009

Aquanauts: Human-marine inhabitants of the NASA Tektite Underwater Habitat (experiments in the 1970s).

Alternate Compression Garment Study (ACG): Long version of compression suit study with modified clothing, customized to each study subject.
Ames: NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California; collection of all "Ames" posts by label category on Pillow Astronaut blog; road trip to NASA Ames; launch at NASA Ames; NASA Ames Tweetup tour 2011; NASA Ames Exchange Lodge; SimLabs Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS); Lunar Lander Cab; Kepler scientists and various planet projects; Sustainability Base Green Building; 360-degree views of Mars at FutureFlight Central.

Anaxagoras: Greek Philosopher who postulated the moon was a rock, not a god.

Animals in Space: NASA Principles for the Ethical Care and Use of Animals; List of all animals flown in micro-gravity; Mice-tronauts or mice in space; fish in space; amphibians (frog and newt tests) in space; cats in space or French felines; dogs in space or Russian canines; space monkeys and apes or American primates; space animals trivia; space animals timeline; NASA cancels monkey radiation experiment.

Apollo 13 Lecture: Photographs and Videos of event where Fred Haise and Gene Kranz spoke at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in April 2009.

Apollo Blog Posts: Collection of all "Apollo" posts by label category on Pillow Astronaut blog.

Apollo Modules: Cross-section and explanations of Apollo era command module, service module and lunar module; modules and crafts still in orbit or on the moon; search for the Apollo 10 Snoopy module in heliocentric orbit.

Apollo Missions: Crewmembers, dates, details and descriptions of Apollo 1; Apollos 4, 5 & 6; Apollo 7; Apollo 8, Apollo 9, Apollo 10, Launch of Apollo 11, Moon Landing of Apollo 11, Legacy of Apollo 11, Apollo 12, Apollo 13, Artifacts from Apollo 13, Anniversary for Apollo 13, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, Apollo 16 and Apollo 17.

Arecibo: Famous dish in Puerto Rico: Arecibo Observatory Tour and featured in popular movies.

Ares Rockets: Propulsion R&D as part of Constellation Project, time-lapse video of construction, testing rockets at Kennedy Space Center launch pads alongside space shuttles.

Articles: Collection of press articles about NASA studies 1960 - 2010.

Astronauts (All Space Travelers): 522 humans (as of 2011) who have flown in space since 1961; astronaut birth dates; trivia and milestones for space travelers; places with the greatest concentration of astronauts; fallen astronauts who have perished on missions who have asteroids named after them.

Astronaut Crew Portraits: Posters of all NASA astronaut crews.

Astronaut Hopefuls and/or Astronaut Candidates: ASHOS Training and Trivia; humorous view on astronaut selection and training; ASCANS Class of 2009 at NASA; ASCAN Jack Fischer's essay about astronaut hiring process.

Astronaut Groups: Astronaut Corps groups 1957 - present.

Astronauts (CSA): Chris Hadfield, Julie Payette, Robert "Bob" Thirsk.

Astronauts (ESA): Frank de Winne, Thomas Reiter, Piers Sellers.
Astronauts (JAXA): Soichi Noguchi, Koichi Wakata, Naoko Yamazaki.

Astronauts (NASA): Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., More Buzz Aldrin in the news, Bill Anders, Clayton Anderson, Neil Armstrong, Serena M. Au��n, Michael Barratt, Alan Bean, Charles Bolden, Frank Borman, Scott Carpenter, Gene Cernan, Roger Chaffee, Greg Chamitoff, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Leroy Chiao, Eileen Collins, Michael Collins, Pete Conrad, TJ Creamer, Robert Crippen, Walter Cunningham, Charles Duke, Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Donn Eisele, Ronald Evans, Christopher Ferguson, Mike Fincke, C. Michael Foale, Ron Garan, John Glenn, Dick Gordon, William Gregory, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Fred Haise, Doug Hurley, James Irwin, Marsha Sue Ivins, Mark Kelly, Scott Kelly, Joseph Kerwin, William Lenoir, Jerry Linenger, Miguel L�pez-Alegr�a, James "Jim" Lovell, Sandra or Sandy Magnus, Thomas Mattingly, Bruce McCandless, James McDivitt, Leland Melvin, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Mike Massimino; Edgar Mitchell, Julie Payette, Garrett Reisman at NASA, Garrett Reisman at SpaceX, and his fan club, Steve Robinson, Stuart Roosa, Jerry Ross, Robert Satcher, Wally Schirra, Harrison Schmitt, Russell Schweickhart, David Scott, Alan Shepard; Alan Shepard Book, Tom Stafford, Nicole Stott, Steve Swanson, Jack Swigert, Rex Waldheim, Doug Wheelock, Ed White, Peggy Whitson, Jeff Williams, Sunita Williams, Stephanie Wilson, Alfred Worden, John Watts Young.

Astronaut Scholarship Foundation: ASF, founded as the Mercury Seven Foundation.

Astronomers Without Borders: April 2011 named Global Astronomy Month by Astronomers Without Borders.

Astronomy Night in Arizona: Annual event at Akimel A-al, Ahwatukee featuring the Challenger Space Center in Phoenix, guest stars in 2011 included Astronaut Bill Gregory and Meteorite Man Geoff Notkin.
Astro-NOTS: Astronaut simulations as carried out by NASA ground personnel, such as flight controllers performing ingress and egress, including Stephen Colbert as one-time guest.
Atlantis Space Shuttle Orbiter
Final Shuttle launches of the Space Shuttle Program 1981-2011; Tweetup for STS-135; watching Space Shuttle Atlantis take off; astronauts at launch pad 39A press site; Seth Green and Bear McCreary debut Shuttle fanfare song; Bob Crippen speaks at STS-135 launch.

Australia: School-children space projects, Deep Space Command, Canberra.

Awards: Daily Reviewer Top 100 Rocketry, Prolific Blogger, Official Seal of Awesomeness

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Bathing: Bathing and showering during bedrest study.

Bedrest Study Main Website: Official NASA website for Human Test Research Facility at Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas; major overhaul update of website in summer of 2011.

Bedrest Study Pamphlets: Official brochure release by Wyle / NASA for the micro-gravity simulations.
Awaken Adventure NASA brochure single page information sheet.
Awaken Your Sense of Adventure NASA brochure front and back.
Space Flight Simulation Study tri-fold brochure.

Bedrest Twins: Participation by twin sisters in Southern California bedrest study.
Beer: Keeping bones healthy with beer; Astronauts4Hire take beer experiment into space.

Berman, Bob: (Also, Robert Berman) Author of The Sun's Heartbeat, other writings on Heliophysics, columnist for Discover and Astronomy magazines.
Blog: Pillow Astronaut blog main page.

Books: Astronaut Cookbook; Build Your Own Spaceship; Packing For Mars, Dark Side of the Moon; ESO Postcards From The Edge; Ben Bova Mars Series; Light This Candle: The Life of Alan Shepard; The Sun's Heartbeat; Meteorite Men: Finding Treasure From Space; The Humility of the Cosmos Poem.

Bova, Ben: Author of Mars Trilogy books

Brighthub Press: Educational article about bedrest studies written by Brighthub teacher

Budget: NASA Budget Myths, List of costs in the federal budget compared to NASA, budget questions in 2010, Way of the Pyramids guest post, Charles Bolden mission statement; budget for Mars missions; Congressmen and Congresswomen fighting for the space program; impeachment of President Obama for NASA; Plan B For Outer Space.

Buran: Russian space shuttle named Snowstorm; only launch of the Soviet Buran re-usable craft.

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Calendars
Holocene, Lunar, Solar and other calendars with equivalents to the year 2012; Mayan baktuns and the alleged December apocalypse.
Camilla Corona (Solar Dynamics Observatory mascot): NASA Goddard mascot Camilla Corona, or Camilla SDO; BTS-1 Space Mission brunch; hosting Camilla at the JPL Tweetup 2011; hosting Camilla on the STS-135 Road Trip to Florida 2011; crossing state lines Arizona and New Mexico, plus the Roswell UFO Museum; Camilla in Texas, Louisiana and Florida; NASA mascot Camilla on FOX Houston 26; STS-135 Tweetup at NASA Kennedy; Cape Canaveral pictures with Camilla at final Shuttle launch; hosting Camilla on a visit to NASA Stennis Space Center.

Canadian Space Agency (CSA): Space program of Canada; CSA website for children, space centers mapped across Canada.

Carl Sagan Day: New holiday honoring cosmologist Carl Sagan.

Challenger Memorial: Houston Memorial park monument honoring the seven lives lost on Space Shuttle Challenger.

China National Space Administration (CNSA): Space program of the Republic of China; space centers mapped across China.

Chief of the Flight Director Office: CFDO John McCullough in Shuttle Mission Control and in ISS Mission Control.
Chromatics: a cappella musical group begun at NASA Goddard.

CNN: Press coverage of NASA Micro-Gravity Studies.

COLBERT Treadmill: Treadmill in iRATS studies, video of COLBERT in action.

Compression Study: First compression garment used in the Compression Suit Study in 2010; Also compression stockings used in NASA Lunar Study; longer version of the study using similar garments in 2011; call for more subjects with newest compression suit in 2012.

Constellation: Photographs at Boston Globe, video and program description, time-lapse Ares rocket construction, Program in Jeopardy.

Constellation Blog Posts: Collection of all "Constellation" posts by label category on Pillow Astronaut blog.

Cosmonauts (Roskosmos) (RFSA): Sergei Avdeyev, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin first human in space, Sergei Krikalev, Yuri Lonchakov, Valeri Polyakov, Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, Gherman Titov; cosmonaut trivia; cosmonauts in Soviet and Russian programs.

Countdown Clock: Explanation of T-minus in countdowns; Shuttle countdown 101 checklist; STS-135 countdown for final shuttle launch; watching Atlantis from launch pad; picture of the NASA Countdown Clock.
Countermeasure and Functional Testing Study: Countermeasures & Functional Testing Studies at UTMB NASA ward, also called CFT-70 or simply The Exercise Study, using the sZLS or the vertical treadmill.

Cruise / Cruises / Cruising: Vacation packages from Insight Cruises, formerly "Geek Cruises" offering Lunar Eclipse packages, science lectures on board ship, and shore excusions to the Arecibo Radio Telescope.

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Dancing With The Stars: Buzz Aldrin picked for dance show; Buzz Aldrin voted off show.

Deep Space Network (DSN): Tracking space missions across the USA, Australia and Spain; Deep Space Network sites mapped across the world.

Discovery Space Shuttle Orbiter: Facts about Space Shuttle Discovery; Discovery launch in HDR Photography.

Disney's Man In Space special: March 1955 Walt Disney program about space travel

Dream Rocket: Saturn V wrap project for children at NASA Marshall

Dr. Wernher von Braun: Von Braun rocket team; featured in Walt Disney's Man In Space television special.

Drake Equation: Or the Green Bank Formula - the Equation used to estimate the potential number of extra-terrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy; related: Fermi Paradox, Galactic Habitable Zone; Drake Equation in the tinfoil hat controversy.

Dryden AOF, NASA: NASA Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility; Dryden Photo Gallery; Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA); Mini-Tweetup at Dryden, Palmdale, CA.
DVD Message to Bedrest Patients: Astronaut Michael Barratt recorded a special message thanking participants of NASA studies.

Dwarf Planets: Alternate ideas for former Planet Pluto: Plutoids, Plutinos, Scattered Disc Objects (SDO), Trans-Neptunian Objects, Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO) and Oort Cloud bodies; specific information on Ceres, Eris, MakeMake, Quaoar, Sedna, Orcus, and Haumea.

Earth: Trivia series about planet Earth; is EARTH the right name for our planet?
Eclipses: Eclipse record origins in history; Solstice Lunar Eclipse from TX 2010.

Education Programs at NASA: Be A Martian, NASA Kid's Club, Space Agency Pages for Children, Taking Up Space

Employees at NASA: Richard Bettin at NASA Kennedy; Tierra Deschner at UTMB Galveston; Heather Smith, Craig Young and Al Whitaker at NASA Marshall; Ed Rezac at NASA Goddard; Liz Warren at NASA Johnson, Ronita Cromwell at NASA Johnson and Ali Llewellyn at NASA Johnson; Robyn Villavecchia at NASA Kennedy; Kepler scientists Natalie Batalha and Jon Jenkins at NASA Ames; Scott Maxwell, David Delgado and Don Yeomans at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Mike Allyn and Jennifer Law at Johnson Space Center.

Endeavour Space Shuttle Orbiter: Facts about Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Energomash Russian Rocket Facility: Lana Sator photographs of security breach.

Enhanced Zero Gravity Locomotion Simulator: News coverage of the Vertical Treadmill or eZLS; subjects running on the treadmill in Galveston.

European Southern Observatory (ESO): Outreach coordinator Oana Sandu; European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT); ESO Postcards From The Edge book released in 2010.

European Space Agency (ESA): ESA Mars500 web site; ESA TV Broadcasts; Space centers mapped across EUROPE (and South America), space fish against osteoporosis experiment; children's interactive ESA Space for Kids web site, first ESA Commander of a ISS Expedition.

Expeditions on the International Space Station: Expedition 1 in the year 2000, Expedition 13 in 2006, Expedition 17 in 2008, Expedition 18 in 2009, Expedition 19 in 2009, Expedition 20 in 2009, Expedition 21 in 2009, Expedition 22 Christmas 2009, Expedition 22 in 2010, who also spent Christmas on the ISS; STS-135 Atlantis reaches Expedition 28 on the ISS.

Experiments on the ISS: Full list of all experiments on the International Space Station.

eZLS: News coverage of the Vertical Treadmill or Enhanced Zero Gravity Locomotion Simulator

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Firefly: Steve Swanson's Firefly DVDs on the ISS, Captain Mal Quotes app on Facebook; Serenity ship and other Browncoats applications; Firefly commentary for no sci-fi space shows in 2011 American television season.

Flight Analog Research Unit (FARU): Flight Analog Research Unit on Galveston Island, Texas. NASA ward at UTMB hospital, visiting astronaut Serena M. Au��n.

Flight Director Gene Kranz: Mercury, Gemini and Apollo era flight director video lecture and photographs at Apollo 13 event, with Fred Haise

FMARS: Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station Expedition and crew postcard (one of three Mars simulation programs).

Food In Space: Shuttle Menus in the modern era; the history of space food; Space Food In A Nutshell essay, including foods in the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Shuttle, ISS and Mars programs; humorous Pie Recipe in the form of a Shuttle Rendezvous checklist; Chocolate planets by Japanese company L'Eclat.

FOX News Houston: Micro-Gravity report by Ned Hibberd in July 2008, Study Follow-Up in December 2008 after Hurricane Ike, Lunar Study report by Sally MacDonald

FOX News New York: Micro-Gravity Q&A on Fox & Friends in August 2008, Interview and video in August 2008.

Fragile Oasis: Astronaut blog and community begun by astronaut Ron Garan.

Fry's Electronics: Fun space-themed electronic stores in Houston, Texas; Burbank, California; Anaheim, California.

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Gagarin, Yuri: Yuri's Nights across the world; Star Sailors feature; Gagarin quoted; fFacts about the first human in space.

Galileo Bonaitui de Galilei: Inventor of the telescope; also, the Galileo Spacecraft, as developed by the NASA JPL.

Galveston for Visitors: Island of Galveston, Texas and the evacuation of the island during Hurricane Ike; island after Hurricane Ike.

Gemini: NASA Gemini spacecraft in the early 1960s.

Global Astronomy Month: April 2011 named Global Astronomy Month by Astronomers Without Borders.

Google Mars: Google map tool for planet Mars; Gale Crater chosen as landing site for MSL Curiosity rover.
GRAIL: Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory space crafts orbiting the moon.

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Haughton-Mars Project: Christine Pires of the Haughton-Mars Project (one of three Mars simulation programs).

Hawking, Stephen: Black Hole lecture at Texas A&M; discussion of the likelihood of Alien contact based on the Drake Equation.

Head Down Day: Launch day of the bedrest study project

Houston Tour: Photo gallery of sites around Houston, Texas (also Clear Lake, Webster, Johnson Space Center); ISS model in Fry's Electronics.

Houston Astronaut Hangout: Popular tavern for astronauts over the years, called The Outpost (closed in 2010)

Hubble Space Telescope: HST details and repairs; 20th Anniversary; telescope trivia.

Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate: HEOMD headed by Bill Gersteinmeier, new NASA office opened after the end of the Space Shuttle program.

Human Space Flight Plans Committee Review: HSFPCR meetings open to the public about NASA's direction and future, including their budget charts, estimated cost visualizations, and their October 2009 report to the White House.

Human Test Subject Facility (HTSF): Screening entity at Johnson Space Center for all Wyle Bioastronautics studies; complete screening process for studies; update of bedrest studies on website July 2011; HTSF descriptions on bedrest study site; call for more human test subjects.

Hurricane Ike: Coming of the storm, September 2008 evacuation of the island, post-storm effects and information about the aftermath.

Hypovolemia Study: Intro Details and description of study at JSC, including the Normovolemia phase, Furosemide phase and Hypovolemia phase.

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ICESat
The NASA Ice Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (I retired, II in development)

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)
India Space Research Organization mapped centers and sites.

International Astronomical Union
Collection of professional astronomers active in astronomical research

International Year of Astronomy 2009: IYA2009 worldwide

International Year of BioDiversity 2010: IYB2010 worldwide

International Space Station Animation: ISS Animation from Tietronix showing construction phases of the station; ISS Ten Years in the Making illustrations.

International Space Station Docking Standard: Docking Design Standard by the Multilateral Coordination Board (MCB).

International Space Station Experiments: Fermentation studies aboard the ISS; Butterflies aboard the ISS; full list of all experiments on the ISS.

International Space Station Postcards: Interactive web cards for the ISS

International Space Station Replica: Full-scale mock-up of the ISS at Fry's Electronics store in Houston.

International Space Station Tour: Description of ISS modules filmed by astronaut Mike Fincke; USA Today Space Station Timeline.

International Space Station Trivia: ISS Trivia; record breaking four women in orbit simultaneously in 2010; more ISS Trivia and stats.

IRATS Bedrest Study: Integrated Resistance and Aerobic Training Study; Treadmills in the iRATS studies; Horizontal Exercise Fixture in iRATS; Google wheel iratas changed to pirates; IRATS in the Ohio Herald.

IYB2010: The International Year of Biodiversity in 2010

IYA2009: The International Year of Astronomy in 2009

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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA): Asteroid explorer Hayabusa; Interactive website; astronaut Soichi Noguchi and his Twitter photos; astronaut Koichi Wakata as representative; space centers mapped across JAPAN.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory: "NOCO" = NASA Owned, Contractor Operated. Extreme Planet Makeover game; Martian Rovers in development and on Mars; JPL campus tour; Rover driver Scott Maxwell shows test rovers; Voyager Gold Records and Galileo Spacecrafts; Tweetup photo gallery for Curiosity Rover; Tweetup at JPL for MSL; Spaceflight Ops Facility (DSN); Imagine Mars outreach worker David Delgado; Near Earth Objects Program Manager Don Yeomans; Space Shuttle tiles with Todd Barber.

Johnson Space Center: NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas; Collection of all "Johnson" posts by label category on Pillow Astronaut blog; Mission Control workers.

Johnson Space Center Pamphlet: Tourist brochure for JSC campus in Houston, Texas.

Johnson Space Center Tour
Photographs and descriptions of the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (SVMF), both aerial view and items on the workfloor; the historic Apollo Mission Control Center; the current Shuttle and ISS Mission Control Centers; The Saturn V rocket in Rocket Park; facilities and photos of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory.

Journal from Lunar Study
All blog posts for Lunar Study in order: screening, testing phase 1, bedrest phase, testing phase 2, rehabilitation.

Journal from Micro Gravity Study
All blog posts for Micro-Gravity in order: screening, testing phase 1, bedrest phase, rehabilitation.

Journal of Scott Saslow
Daily writings of Micro-Gravity Study participant Scott Saslow.

Jupiter Moons
Satellites of the Jovian System: Callisto, Io, Europa, Ganymede.

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Kennedy Space Flight Center, NASA: NASA Kennedy Space Flight Center; Kennedy Photo Gallery (Shuttles); Kennedy Picture Gallery (Final Shuttle Launch Tweetup); STS-135 Press Site NASA Tweetup; Astronauts at the Cape Canaveral Tweetup; STS-135 Countdown; HDR photography of Shuttle launch; watching Space Shuttle Atlantis take off; astronauts at launch pad 39A press site; Seth Green and Bear McCreary debut Shuttle fanfare song; astronaut Bob Crippen speaks at STS-135 launch.

Kepler Telescope Mission
Astronomer Natalie Batalha lecture at NASA Ames; Kepler Cannonball Awards; Music of the Stars; Kepler Orrery visualizations; Kepler map of Extra Solar Planets or Exoplanets.

Kid's Club at NASA
NASA Kid's Club; Space coloring books; Be A Martian online game; Build Your Own Space Mission online game; Virtual Field Trip at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory online game; websites for children at the European, Japanese and Canadian space agencies; Planetary Body of the Year Contest for kids; Johnson Space Center summer art camp for children, Taking Up Space Education Program; Extreme Planet Makeover game at the JPL.

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Laika: Russian canine rides in Sputnik2

Laptops in bedrest: Use of internet technology and hardware during weightless simulations

Last Day Every Human Was On Earth: October 2000 was the last time all humans were on planet Earth, when none were in orbit.

Laws: Legal regulations governing space travel; space treaties; U.S. Space Objects Registry.

Launch Sequence: Shuttle Countdowns from T-43 to liftoff; Launch schedule as published by NASA; Launch of final space shuttle.

Life on Mars: Methane hurricanes found on Planet Mars; simulations by the Mars Desert Research Station, FMARS and the Haughton-Mars project.

LOLCats: Web memes featuring cats with funny captions (space related selection); AstroNot kitty; second round of space cats; third LOLCat collection; off-shoot Cats With Thumbs space humor.

LRO / LCROSS: The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter / Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite launch; 2009 Top Ten Space finds.

LUNAR 12: Twelve Earth men who have landed and walked on the moon

Lunar Bed Hardware: Human doll testing and forceplate testing on the Lunar Simulation bed

Lunar Electric Rover: LER in the inaugural parade; LER spotted at Johnson Space Center being filmed by NASA Edge

Lunar Landing Hoax Debate: Moon Hoax Expos� joke article on The Onion; article accidentally taken seriously on other news sites; Craig Ferguson monologue; reasons conspiracy theories are nonsense; SyFy Channel Paranormal Files Lunar experiments.

Lunar Missions: List of all missions to the moon by probes, orbiters, samplers and capsules by all nations of Earth.

Lunar Study: Description of lunar simulation at Human Test Research Facility; Q&A of study protocols; study schedule of tasks and events; multiple participants of the study including Heather Archuletta, Kevin Bruns and Deron Jenkins; completion of lunar study; rehabilitation following study.

Lunar Study Journal
All blog posts for Lunar Study in order: screening, testing phase 1, bedrest phase, testing phase 2, rehabilitation.

Lunar Trivia: Fun facts about the moon

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Map of Worldwide Space Sites
NASA Sites Mapped, Pillownaut Space Map, Space Crafts on display, Space Museums, Space Mapping on Google, International Space Sites: Canadian Space Agency CSA space centers, Chinese CNSA space centers; European ESA space centers, Indian Space Research Organization ISRO space centers; Japanese JAXA space centers, Russian Federal Space Agency RFSA space centers and finally the completion of the map with South American, Australian, African and Middle Eastern space agency sites.

Map of Worldwide Museums
Museums all over the Earth featuring space artifacts, space crafts, displays about space or astronomy, and many also have Planetariums in addition to exhibits. Includes space-related novelties such as lodges, restaurants, roadside camp and alien folklore. Also, Space City parks or recreational learning experiences in India and Europe; Shuttle retirement sites chosen.

Map of all Space Travelers from Earth
Sites in 51 nations showing all 522 astronauts or other space travelers (mostly NASA, currently accounting for 310), cosmonauts, spationauts and taikonauts from Earth, as of 2011 missions. Google map site also available. Includes lists of astronaut birth dates, both by month and year, and all names of space travelers (first and surnames). Greatest concentration of astronauts in Ohio, USA.

Mariner 9 Orbiter
Photo-mapping probe sent to planet Mars.

Mars: Be A Martian online game; Debates for visiting Mars; Houston Museum, landing on Mars hoax movie; Mariner 9 orbiter, Mars500, methane discovery, mars meteorites on Earth, monkeys on Mars; New York restaurant with Mars theme; novel series, Olympus Mons volcano, Phoenix lander, Mars Trivia; Valles Marineris canyon; budget for missions; Mars To Stay (One-Way Trip enthusiasts); Send Your Name to Mars on the Curiosity Rover; Mars One-Way Trip; Gale Crater chosen as landing site for MSL Curiosity rover.

MARS 2112: Space-themed restaurant on Broadway, New York City.

MARS500: Also sometimes written as Mars 500 with space between word and number. Complete collection of all blog posts for Mars500 category, Mars500 100-Day Milestone; Mars 500 One-Third of the Way; Emergency Shutdown simulation, Happy New Year 2011 party; day 200 poster; MARS LANDING; All Female Symbolic Crew or AFSC sent into Mars500 capsule; Twitter feed and blogs from Mars; Mars500 One Year Mark; Mars500 breaks mission record; one month mark prior to completion; Mars500 Lands on Earth; Mars500 Tweetup in Rome 2011.

MARS 500: Also sometimes written as Mars500 with no space between word and number. Details on the ESA and Russian Collaboration; the 105-day simulation with five crew members; completion of the 105-day sim; recruiting for the second simulation; purposes and protocols for entire project (3 sims total); 520-day sim facility additions and suit testing; 520-Day Simulation space voyage launch; Mars500 Q&A after launch; Mars 500 All-Female Sim Crew from the US, UK, Italy, Japan and Russia; Mars 500 1-Year Mark; Mars500 breaks mission record; one month mark prior to completion; Mars500 Lands on Earth.
Mars Museum Exhibit: Martian exhibits at Hermann Park Health Museum in Houston, Texas.

Mars Novel Series: Series of three novels about space travel to Mars by author Ben Bova.
Mars Rovers: Also known as MER or Mars Exploration Rovers;Martian Rovers in development and on Mars; Rover driver Scott Maxwell shows test rovers; Tribute to 9/11 terrorism victims on Mars Rovers.
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL): Mars Science Lab on the Curiosity Rover, developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL); Martian Rovers in development and on Mars; JPL campus tour; NASA Tweetup for MSL and Curiosity Rover; Mars rover development clean room; Gale Crater chosen as landing site for MSL Curiosity rover.
Martian Hop: Novelty song about dancing martians by the Ran-Dells in 1963, as covered by Rocky Sharpe & the Replays in 1980.
Martian Rocks: Q&A about rock samples from Mars; Rover driver Scott Maxwell shows test rovers over mock Martian soil.

Mascots: MECO for the Spacetweep Society; Camilla SDO nominated for Social Media award.

Mayan Culture / Mayans: Alleged December 2012 apocalypse conspiracy theories.
Mercury 7 or Mercury Seven: NASA program 1958 - 1963: including the original Mercury Seven astronauts; Mercury flight and survival training; Mercury spacecrafts; Mercury Seven Foundation, later renamed the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation; Alan Shepard Freedom 7 Flight on Mercury 3.

Meteors / Meteorites: Q&A about rock samples from Mars found on Earth; also, Meteorites, Meteoroids and the Meteoritical Society; ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration Meteorites Event.

Meteorite Men: Discovery Channel Science Channel television show about meteorite hunting, starring Geoff Notkin and Steve Arnold; Meteorite Men co-host Geoffrey Notkin speaks at Astronomy Night in Phoenix, AZ.

Methane on Mars: Methane hurricanes found on Planet Mars.

Micro-Gravity Study: Complete collection of all Micro-Gravity Study posts.

Micro Gravity Journal
All blog posts for Micro-Gravity in order: screening, testing phase 1, bedrest phase, rehabilitation.

Mission Control: Mission Control Centers for the Apollo Program, the Space Shuttles and the International Space Station; Mission Control employee Liz Warren at NASA Johnson; Q&A about monitoring astronauts on orbit by flight controllers and a flight surgeon in training.

Mission X: Mission X Train Like An Astronaut program for children, to inspire knowledge about science and fitness.
Monkeys: Destined for Mars; used in space testing.

Molds: Seat molds and hand molds of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts.

Moon Landing Hoax
CNN poll on moon landing reality; Moon Hoax Expos� joke article on The Onion; article accidentally taken seriously on other news sites; Syfy Channel Paranormal Files moon landing debate; reasons conspiracy theories are nonsense.

Moon Samples: Lunar regolith experimentation on Earth; Moon Castles; Goodwill Moon Rocks call to action; Goodwill Moon Rocks update.

Moon Tree: Trees grown from seeds taken on Apollo 14 flight by astronaut Stuart Roosa.

Moon Trivia: Facts about the Lunar satellite; blue moon; Testing of newest Lunar footwear moon boots by NASA; Moon Branch Project in Japan to put Domino's Pizza branch on the lunar surface; GRAIL mission to orbit the moon with twin crafts.

Moon vs. Mars Debate: Financial and philosophical arguments about lunar landings and trips to Mars; closeness of moon vs. distance to Mars.

Moonwalkers: All twelve Earth men who have landed and walked on the moon; trivia and backgrounds of all twelve moonies.
Movies: Capricorn One, Contact, Head Down Tilt, Le Voyage dans la Lune or A Trip To The Moon, Moon, Space Film Scores, Wall-E.

Music: Craft Lass Bake Sale for NASA song, Apollo 17 Moon Landing music video by Pennan Brae, a capella Chromatics singing group, two versions of the Martian Hop; NASA and media company team to launch Third Rock Radio aka "The Space Station" for indie rock and alternative music.

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NASA Ames: NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California; collection of all "Ames" posts by label category on Pillow Astronaut blog; NASA Ames Tweetup tour 2011; NASA Ames Exchange Lodge; SimLabs Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS); Lunar Lander Cab; Kepler scientists and various planet projects; Sustainability Base Green Building; 360-degree views of Mars at FutureFlight Central.

NASA Edge: Filming Lunar Rover at JSC

NASA Gift Shop: The Space Trader and items for sale in Houston; also, the online Space Store.

NASA Dryden: NASA Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility; Dryden Photo Gallery; Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA); Mini-Tweetup at Dryden, Palmdale, CA.

NASA Goddard: Employee Ed Rezac; a cappella musical group Chromatics; Blue Marble - Next Generation software.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: "NOCO" = NASA Owned, Contractor Operated. Extreme Planet Makeover game; Martian Rovers in development and on Mars; JPL campus tour; Rover driver Scott Maxwell shows test rovers; Voyager Gold Records and Galileo Spacecrafts; JPL Tweetup Photo Gallery; Tweetup at JPL for MSL and Curiosity; Asteroid Watch (Near Earth Objects); Space Shuttle tiles with Todd Barber.

NASA Johnson: NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas; NASA worker Ali Llewellyn, outreach coordinator; Collection of all "Johnson" posts by label category on Pillow Astronaut blog. Employee during Apollo Program, Robyn Villavecchia; Shuttle Quality Assurance Tech Richard Bettin.
NASA Kennedy: NASA Kennedy Space Flight Center; Kennedy Photo Gallery (Shuttles); Kennedy Picture Gallery (Final Shuttle Launch Tweetup); STS-135 Launch Twitter media event; watching Space Shuttle Atlantis take off; astronauts at launch pad 39A press site; Seth Green and Bear McCreary debut Shuttle fanfare song; Bob Crippen speaks at STS-135 launch.

NASA Marshall: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; collection of all "Marshall" posts by label category on Pillow Astronaut blog; road trip to NASA Marshall in Huntsville, Alabama; Apollo 16 capsule on display; Space Camp; U.S. Space & Rocket Center; Marshall NASA Museum, tour of all Marshall Research labs, Apollo Airstream Mobile Quarantine Facility, ISS Payload Operations Center at Marshall, Marshall Space Flight Center Regolith Project.

NASA Stennis: NASA Stennis Space Flight Center; NASA Stennis Photo Gallery; rocket test stands tour, Apollo 4 capsule inside the Stennisphere.
NASA Spinoffs: Technology on Earth as a direct result of NASA research or activities.

NASA Television: Main NASA TV site; ISS feed from Greg Chamitoff; Space Shuttle launches; STS-130 countdown.

NASA Website: Micro-Gravity Simulation on NASA web, Pillownaut feature on NASA.gov, bedrest studies official website.

National Space Biomedical Research Institute
Butterflies aboard the ISS

Neuroscience Team: Neuroscientists and Neurological tests and at the Human Test Research Facility, JSC

Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory: Photographs and facts about the NBL in Houston, Texas

NEWS COVERAGE: 365 Days of Astronomy Pillownaut Podcast (June 12, 2011)
ABC News via Dallas WFAA affiliate on Pillownauts on the eZLS (May 12, 2011)
Austin-American Statesman Newspaper covers NASA Studies in Galveston (May 23, 2009)
Christian Science Monitor asks Are NASA Studies the Best Job Ever (December 30, 2009)
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta covers the Treadmill Study and discusses Bone Loss in Space (September 16, 2008)
Fox 26 Houston covers the Micro-Gravity Simulation (July 31, 2008)
Fox 26 Houston covers the Lunar Study (May 21, 2009)
Fox 26 Houston covers Camilla Corona on trip to the final Shuttle Launch STS-135 (July 5, 2011)
Fox & Friends show in New York interviews Pillownauts (August 1, 2008)
Fox New York covers the Micro-Gravity Simulation (August 5, 2008)
International Press Compilation (Afghanistan, Belgium, China, Croatia, England, Fiji, India, Malaysia, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Ukraine)
Moon Daily covers the Lunar Study (May 22, 2009)
NASA.gov article on the HTSF Pillownauts (September 23, 2008)
Ohio Herald article about iRATS study (December 23, 2010)
Planetary Radio interview with Study participants (March 17, 2009)
POPSCI.com Magazine/Blog covers the combined NASA Studies (June 3, 2009)
SmartPlanet covers the NASA Bedrest studies (February 4, 2010)
SpaceHack features the NASA Studies and other updates.; Space Times News now carrying Pillownaut Blog Feed (As of April 2011)
St. Petersburg Times covers the Bed Pilots (1970s)
Universe Today (Anne Minard) tells why Space Hates Our Bones (April 13, 2009)
WIRED Magazine/Blog interviews NASA scientist Ronita Cromwell and various Pillownauts (June 17, 2009)

Obameter: Meter of campaign promises measured against progress of space issues in Barack Obama's presidency; 2012 update after three years in office.

Ohio: Also known as the Astronaut State, having a higher percentage of astronauts born within their borders than any other region on Earth, compared to population density.

Orbital Debris: Space junk as classified by NASA; sign up for the Orbital Debris Quarterly newsletter.
Orrery: Examination of solar system models, including human orrery, Dark Crystal movie orrery and Eise Eisinga 1774 Planetarium, still the largest orrery in the world; Kepler Orrery Visualizations.

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Pamphlets for NASA Studies: Official brochure release by Wyle / NASA for the micro-gravity simulations.
Awaken Adventure NASA brochure single page information sheet.
Awaken Your Sense of Adventure NASA brochure front and back.
Space Flight Simulation Study tri-fold brochure.

Phoenix: Phoenix Mars Lander
Photography: Photo Galleries on PICASA Albums site:
Apollo 13 Lecture - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/Apollo13Event#
Apollo Mission Control - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/MissionControl#
Astronaut Scholarship Foundation - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/ASFAstronautAuction#; Astronomy Night in Arizona, featuring the Meteorite Men - https://picasaweb.google.com/110136231636280387309/AstronomyNight
Houston, Texas - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/HoustonTexas#
Human Test Research Facility - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/HTSFScreening#
Mars Museum Houston - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/MarsVacation#
MicroGravity Study Rehabilitation - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/EvacuationRehab#
MicroGravity Study Tests - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASAWard#
NASA Ames Research Center - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASAAmesResearchCenter#
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASAJetPropulsionLaboratory#; NASA Johnson Space Center - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/JohnsonSpaceCenter#
NASA Kennedy Space Center - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/KennedySpaceCenterFlorida#
NASA Kennedy Final Shuttle launch - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASAKennedy
NASA Marshall Space Center - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASAMarshallSpaceCenter#
NASA Marshall Rocket Park - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASAMarshallRocketPark#
NASA Stennis - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASAStennis
Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NeutralBuoyancyLaboratory#
Solstice Eclipse of Winter 2010 - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/WinterSolsticeEclipse#
Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (Aerial) - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/SVMFAerial#
Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (Work Floor) - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/SVMFWorkFloor#
Space Week 2009 - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/SpaceWeek2009#; Tweetup for STS-130 at NASA JSC - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASATweetupJSC#
Tweetup for Kepler Mission at NASA Ames - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASATweetupARC#
Tweetup for Curiosity Mars Rover at NASA JPL - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASAJPLTweetup
Tweetup for SOFIA at NASA Dryden - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASADryden
Tweetup for STS-135 at NASA Kennedy - https://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut/NASAKennedy

Pillownaut Facebook Page: Pillow Astronaut profile on social site Facebook.

Pillownaut Myspace Page: Pillow Astronaut profile on social site Myspace.

Pillownauts: Introducing Marcus, Michael & Devin
Pictures of Devin, Heather & Michael
Devin, Candace, Heather at Devin's Halfway Point
Devin, Candace, Heather, Deron Movie Nights - Firefly
Deron head down day, Heather Star Trek Dolls
All rise for Hurricane Ike - Devin, Heather, Marcus, Kjell & Deron
Hurricane Ike Evacuation
Heather, Devin, Marcus during Rehab
Devin, Heather driving and home videos
Devin, Heather driving back to Houston
Devin, Heather & Deron Reunion after Hurricane Ike
Heather, Devin reunion in Lunar Study
Heather, Davonne, Todd doing Arts & Crafts
Michelle, Heather, Jessica, Davonne Arts & Crafts at Study Facility
Devin & Heather - Videos at Mars Museum Exhibit in Houston

Pillownaut Twitter Feed: Pillow Astronaut profile on social site Twitter.

Pillownaut YouTube Channel: Pillow Astronaut profile on social site YouTube.

Planetary Gravitational Forces: Your Weight On Other Worlds software, showing the force of gravity and its effect on mass from planet to planet. See what you would weigh on Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto and Earth's moon -- as compared to Earth.
Planetary Habitability Laboratory: The PHL at the University of Arecibo, working on the Visible Paleo-Earth Project.
Planetary Linguistics: Names of planetary bodies and solar system terms in all different languages

Planetary Radio: Interview of test subject after Micro-Gravity Simulation; other guests.

Popular Science
Archives online created in 2010: Space articles back to 1873; Moon predictions from the Space Race.

Portraits of Astronaut Crews
Posters of all NASA astronaut crews.

Pluto: Debate on Planet status; alternate names: Dwarf Planets, Trans-Neptunian Objects, Plutoids, Plutinos, Scattered Disc Objects (SDO), Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO) and Oort Cloud bodies; Pluto T-shirts.

President of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower establishes NASA in 1958; John F. Kennedy plans mission to the moon; Barack Obama calls the ISS; Barack Obama waves to Lunar Rover in inaugural parade; Barack Obama's commitment to space issues; Space issues in progress one year later (2010); Space issues in progress two years later (2011); Ronald Reagan comments on Space Shuttle Challenger; Obama calls the ISS with school children; Obama and NASA's budget; status of the 2012 Obameter of the campaign promises made about space.
Press Articles: Collection of press articles about NASA studies 1960 - 2010; blog feed now regularly inducted into the Space Times News website.

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Quiz�- Human Bones: Quiz and answers about human bones; bone health, properties of bone.

Quiz - Moon Survival: Test of how well you would survive on the moon with certain tools.

Quiz - Space Geeks: See if you are an Astro-Nut or Astro-NOT.

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Radio

Rehabilitation (post study): Pains in crash course rehab; Seton hospital in Austin, Texas; Side effects and exercise; Side effects later at home; Lunar study aftermath.

Restaurants With Space Themes: Mapped restaurants across the US and Canada; Mars2112 in New York City; Moon Wok in New Orleans; Wisconsin's Sci-Fi Cafe; also on list: Oregon's Space Room Lounge and the Space Aliens Grill & Bars in Minnesota and North Dakota.

Road Trips: Houston, TX drive; Galveston Reunion after Hurricane Ike; Christmas in Galveston, TX; Denison, TX founder of NASA museum; Mars Museum and videos in Houston, TX; trip to California to see NASA Ames and Shuttle launch; trip to Alabama to visit NASA Marshall, US Space and Rocket Center, rocket test stands, and Apollo artifacts; STS-130 Tweetup at Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX; second Tweetup at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA; visit to Martian Rovers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA; chauffeuring Camilla Corona through Roswell UFO museum; Camilla in New Orleans and Florida; trip to Cape Canaveral to see final Shuttle Launch Atlantis STS-135; westward return home from Tweetup through Grand Canyon.; Annual event at Akimel A-al, Ahwatukee featuring the Challenger Space Center in Phoenix, guest stars in 2011 included Astronaut Bill Gregory and Meteorite Man Geoff Notkin.
Rockets: Rockets of the world visual poster; Saturn V and other rockets at Johnson Space Center Rocket Park; rockets at Marshall Space Flight Center Rocket City.

Rocket Test Stands: Rocket test stands at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama; Saturn V Dynamic Test Stand; Space Shuttle Test Stands.

Rovers: Martian Rovers in development at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and deployed on planet Mars, including Phoenix, Spirit and Opportunity; also upcoming Curiosity and MSL; JPL campus tour; Rover driver Scott Maxwell shows test rovers at the test sites; Gale Crater chosen as landing site for MSL Curiosity rover; Tribute to 9/11 terrorism victims on Mars Rovers.

Russian Space Program: Roscosmos; Details on the ESA and Russian Collaboration; the 105-day simulation with five crew members; completion of the 105-day sim; recruiting for the second simulation; purposes and protocols for entire project (3 sims total); first episode of time travel; records set by Russian federal program; space centers of Roskosmos mapped across Russia, Lana Sator photographs of Energomash Russian Rocket testing facility.

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Sagan, Carl: Contact book and film; Carl Sagan Day; views of possible extra-terrestrial life; Voyager Golden Records.

Saslow, Scott - Journal
Introduction to Scott in the Micro-Gravity study; Daily writings of Micro-Gravity Study participant Scott Saslow.

Saturn V: Rock specifications; launch vehicles for Apollo missions; Rocket Park in Houston, Texas; Saturn V Rocket Test Stands.

Scientist Ronita Cromwell: Ronita L. Cromwell at NASA Studies; Dr. Cromwell PhD Credentials and Publications.
Screening for NASA Studies: Complete Screening process at the Human Test Research Facility at Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX; Q&A on Screening Qualifications for Micro-Gravity Study; Screening for Lunar Study; Screening myths cleared up.

Seeds In Space: Educational project on the International Space Station for growing seeds in space.

Sex In Space: Studies of animal reproductive behavior in micro-gravity; myths about human sex experiments in space; Space Sex post Q&A; married couples in space; married astronauts.

Shergottite
Properties of Mars rocks; Mars rock giveaway by New Scientist magazine.

Snoopy: NASA employee award called the "Silver Snoopy"; search for the Apollo 10 Snoopy module in heliocentric orbit.

Skylab
Skylab artifacts on loan from Skylab Museum of Australia.

Social Sites: Pillownaut Facebook Page : http://www.facebook.com/heather.archuletta
Pillownaut Myspace Page : http://www.myspace.com/pillownaut
Pillownaut Picasa Albums : http://picasaweb.google.com/pillownaut
Pillownaut Twitter Feed : http://twitter.com/pillownaut
Pillownaut YouTube Channel : http://www.youtube.com/user/pillownaut

Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Mascot Camilla Corona: NASA Goddard mascot Camilla Corona, or Camilla SDO; BTS-1 Space Mission brunch; hosting Camilla at the JPL Tweetup; 2011; hosting Camilla on the STS-135 Road Trip to Florida 2011; crossing state lines Arizona and New Mexico, plus the Roswell UFO Museum; Camilla in Texas, Louisiana and Florida; NASA mascot Camilla on FOX Houston 26; STS-135 Tweetup at NASA Kennedy; Cape Canaveral pictures with Camilla at final Shuttle launch; hosting Camilla on a visit to NASA Stennis Space Center.
Soviet Space Program
Snowstorm re-usable shuttle or Buran launch; list of Cosmonauts; cosmonaut trivia.

Space Cadets: Space Cadet application on Facebook, also with Fan Wall.

Space Camp: Space Camp at Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL.

Space Map
NASA Sites Mapped, Pillownaut Space Map, Space Crafts on display, Space Museums, Space Mapping on Google, International Space Sites: Canadian Space Agency CSA space centers, China CNSA space centers; European ESA space centers, Indian Space Research Organization ISRO space centers; Japanese JAXA space centers, Russian Federal Space Agency RFSA space centers; finally, the completion with mapping of space agency sites in Australia, South America, Africa and the Middle East; map of birth places of all space travelers since 1961, also mapped by birth date.

Space Shuttle Atlantis
Final Shuttle launches of the Space Shuttle Program 1981-2011; Tweetup for STS-135; watching Space Shuttle Atlantis take off; astronauts at launch pad 39A press site; Seth Green and Bear McCreary debut Shuttle fanfare song; Bob Crippen speaks at STS-135 launch.
Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial: Houston Memorial park monument honoring the seven lives lost on Challenger; John Denver tribute song to Challenger Crew, They Were Flying For Me.

Space Shuttle Columbia Memorial: Arlington National Cemetery stone honoring the seven lives lost on Columbia.

Space Shuttle Discovery: Facts about Space Shuttle Discovery; Discovery launch in HDR Photography.

Space Shuttle Endeavour: Facts about Space Shuttle Endeavour.

Space Shuttles: Trivia about the Space Transportation System (STS); Shuttles ferried by airplane; Shuttle launches; Shuttle and Ares Rocket; Space Shuttle Retirement plans; Shuttle Launch of STS-130; Shuttle T-shirts; NASA soliciting bids for retired space shuttles; rivalries between cities to acquire retired space shuttles; penultimate voyage of Space Shuttle Atlantis; Space Shuttle Countdown 101; myths of Roman influence; Space Shuttle tiles; NASA's final three Shuttle missions; Shuttle Retirement Museums Chosen in 2011; facts about Shuttle Endeavour, baby of the fleet; final Shuttle launches in 2011; final launch of the Space Shuttle program STS-135.

Space Shuttle Successors?
Possible successors to the Space Shuttle program, including the CST-100 by Boeing, the Dragon Capsule by SpaceX, Dream Chaser by Sierra Nevada Corporation, Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) Orion by Lockheed-Martin or the secret space vehicle by Blue Origin.

Space Suits
Click-the-space-suit to learn the parts game; novelty spacesuit for sale in 1960s magazine.

Space Television
Various places to watch space news and launches, including Space Vidcast, ESA Television, AstroSpace Now, Spacelaunch News, NASA Television, This Week In Space (TWIS).

Space Tourism
Future vacations in Space.

Space Trader
Store at Space Center Houston; also, the Space Store NASA Gift Shop.

Space Travelers
"Star Sailors" and the origins of the words astronaut, taikonaut, cosmonaut and spationaute; trivia on various space travelers throughout the eras; astronauts who have been on popular television shows.

Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility: Astronaut training grounds at Johnson Space Center aerial view from the public hall and inside the simulators on the work floor; guest pilot in shuttle simulator.

Space Week: Events in Texas 2009.

Space Times News: Space website carrying Pillownaut blog feed.

SpaceX: Falcon 9 Rocket launches; Dragon Capsule tests; NASA COTS and Elon Musk; Cheese wheel in space; Engineer Matt Sachtler gives tour of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation; SpaceX Mission Control at Cape Canaveral Air Station; Space-flown Dragon capsule on display in Florida.

Spinoffs: Technology on Earth as a direct result of NASA research or activities.

Sputnik 2: Laika the Russian canine rides in orbiter.

Stamps: Vote for 2010 American Moon Stamp; Mercury Program stamps 2011; Alan Shepard stamp released on Freedom 7 anniversary.

Star Trek: Assignment Earth episode with Apollo footage; ISS Expedition 21 poster; Behind-The-Scenes humor on the original Star Trek series; real Astronauts who have appeared on episodes of Star Trek; Astronaut crews who dressed in Starfleet uniforms; Star Trek Christmas novelties; San Francisco Star Trek Convention in March 2011 with Nichele Nichols and Leonard Nimoy.

Stennis Space Flight Center, NASA
NASA Stennis Space Flight Center; NASA Stennis Photo Gallery; rocket test stands tour, Apollo 4 capsule inside the Stennisphere.

Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
SOFIA at Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility, a modified Boeing Jet engaged in Airborne Astronomy.

STS-135 Launch
Final space shuttle launch of the Space Shuttle program; Atlantis orbiter; Road Trip across the country to STS-135.

Study Exercises: Basic exercises included in Micro-Gravity Study; Q&A on exercise regime; Q&A on allowed exercises during second phase; COLBERT Treadmill in NASA Studies, eZLS or sZLS Treadmills, exercise regimen in iRATS study, exercise regimen in the Countermeasure and Functional Testing Study (CFT70).

Study Food: Nutritional requirements during studies; Caloric Harris-Benedict Equation.

Study Goals: Reasons behind NASA study design and protocols; pros and cons; Risks vs. Perqs of participating in studies at NASA.

Study Medications: All medicinal substances used, oral and intravenous.

Study Pamphlets: Official brochure release by Wyle / NASA for the micro-gravity simulations.
Awaken Adventure NASA brochure single page information sheet.
Awaken Your Sense of Adventure NASA brochure front and back.
Space Flight Simulation Study tri-fold brochure.

Study Schedules: Routine daily life in the Micro-Gravity Study; routine daily life in the Lunar Study; schedule and garments for the Compression Suit Study.

Study Side Effects: Effects of being head-down; effects at the halfway point; effects immediately after the study; effects at home; effects after one month.

Study Testing: Completed list of all medical tests in the NASA Studies; ; test list on Pillownaut domain with clickable links to each individual test.

Study Website: Official NASA website for Human Test Research Facility at Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas.

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Telescopes: Telescope trivia; radio telescopes and the electromagnetic radiation spectrum; Galileo's work with telescopes.

Television: Space Shuttle prep, launches and other programming on NASA Television; STS-130 countdown, THIS WEEK IN SPACE with Miles O'Brien, Buzz Aldrin on Dancing With The Stars, Food Channel Top Chef Gastro-Nauts, SyFy Fact or Faked Paranormal Files and general Space Television outlets, where one can watch space news and launches; astronauts who have been on popular television shows; Discovery Channel Science Channel television show about meteorite hunting, starring Geoff Notkin and Steve Arnold; Space Commercial of 2011.
Tests (ALL) in NASA Medical Studies: List of tests in Micro-Gravity Study; test list on Pillownaut domain with clickable links to each individual test.

Tests (Described in POSTS) in NASA Medical Studies: Blood Draws; Bone Scans - DXA and pQCT; Cardiovascular procedures; Cycle Ergometer in first and second phases; Dorsal Hand and Dorsal Foot; Neurological Posturography (balance); Plasma Volume; Psychological measures; TILT Test; WinSCAT.

Time Travel: Earth's first significant time traveler, Sergei Avdeyev.

T-Minus: Explanation of launch time countdowns; Space Shuttle Countdown 101.

Trans-Neptunian Objects: Alternate ideas for former Planet Pluto: Dwarf Planets, Plutoids, Plutinos, Scattered Disc Objects (SDO), Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO) and Oort Cloud bodies.

Tweetup: 1. Johnson Space Center event in Houston, Texas for STS-130; Tweetup Materials and Press kit; Tweetup guest astronaut Dr. Bobby Satcher; VIT "Very Important Twits" Tour of SVMF, NBL, MCC and MOCR2; ISS Wake-Up Call from Mission Control; ISS Phone call from President Barack Obama.; 2. Ames Research Center event in Mountain View, California; tour of Ames and mascot Camilla SDO; Kepler scientist Natalie Batalha; The Kepler Cannonball Awards; SimLabs Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS); astronaut Bo Bobko discusses Shuttle landing sims; Lunar Lander cab simulator; Green Building Sustainability Base; Jon Jenkins at his Star Music; 360-degree view of Mars in FutureFlight Central.
3. Jet Propulsion Laboratory event in Pasadena, California; tour of JPL and group photo with mosaic of Spirit Rover; Curiosity Rover, Spaceflight Operations Facility; Eyes on the Solar System; Imagine Mars (Mars Outreach Program); Mars Rover Drivers; Mars Science Laboratory Clean Room; Asteroid Watch (Near Earth Objects Program).
4. Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility event in Palmdale, CA; tour of hangars and the Boeing modified jet serving as the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA); airborne astronomy.
5. Kennedy Space Center launch in Cape Canaveral, Florida; intro to Tweetup activities at launch Pad 39A; watching Space Shuttle Atlantis take off; astronauts at launch pad 39A press site; Seth Green and Bear McCreary debut Shuttle fanfare song; Bob Crippen speaks at STS-135 launch.

Twitter: Pillownaut feed; NASA feed; list of astronauts who are on Twitter; ALL NASA TWITTER FEEDS on NASA CONNECT.

Tyson, Neil deGrasse
Lectures on "What is NASA?"; Narrating the "Can We Make It To Mars?" special on NOVA Science Now.

U

United Space Alliance Lecture: Guest speakers from USA.

United States Space & Rocket Center
U.S. Space & Rocket Center at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; Dream Rocket Saturn V Project.

Universe Size: Comparison videos of planetary bodies in the known universe.
University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB): Daily life in the NASA Study facility; Food menus in the studies; floorplan map of the NASA ward; Nurses and other staff; scheduled routines for subjects; Study Floors.

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Venus: Trivia about planet Venus.

Vergeltungswaffe-2 (V2 Rocket): V2 rockets developed WWII.

Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS): SimLabs and Vertical Motion Simulator at NASA Ames Research Center; astronaut Bo Bobko explains Space Shuttle landing simulations; Lunar Lander cab at the VMS warehouse.

Very Large Array (VLA): New Mexico array of radio telescopes.

Visible Paleo_earth Project: As run by the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Arecibo.

Vomit Comet: Weightlessness simulated in airplanes flying parabolas.

von Braun, Wernher: Von Braun rocket team; featured in Walt Disney's Man In Space television special.

Voyager Probes: Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 released in the 1970s; longevity in space; Voyager 1 distance record; Voyager mockup craft at the NASA JPL.

Voyager Golden Records: Earth messages to alien life on the Voyager Probes; design and materials; the Golden Record cover on display at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Wake-Up Call on the International Space Station: Wake-up music for STS-130 and ISS crew.

Website for NASA studies: Official NASA website for Human Test Research Facility at Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas.

Website for NASA studies: All astronauts, cosmonauts and space tourists with their own personal or business web sites (master list).
Weightlessness Jet: Weightlessness simulated in airplanes flying parabolas.
WinSCAT: Psychological testing in NASA Studies; Details of Windows Spaceflight Neuro-Cognitive Assessment Tool.
World Space Week: 2009 World Space Week.

Y

Yuri Gagarin: First human being in space, Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

Yuri's Night: Annual celebration of the first human being in space, Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

Z

Zero-G: Weightlessness simulated in airplanes flying parabolas.

Zero-gravity flights at Incredible Adventures: Tourist company offering parabolic flights to experience weightlessness.