Questions tagged [resources]
Questions related to (online) resources relevant for research in the SE domain, both historical and contemporary resources, online and offline.
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Can other Q&A sites be a source for answers?
For example, a main useful one would be Quora. Are they considered reliable. What if the answer has sources. Then can we it or do we look at the sources? How about if it is unsourced?
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Where did all the Apollo era NTRS documents go? Do we need to preserve them?
Lately I'm unable to find documents on NTRS that used to be available. Example:
"F-1 Rocket Engine Operating Instructions" used to be available. It is referenced on this page on heroicrelics....
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Should there be a “no evidence of research” flag/VTC option?
The recent “so what happened with New Horizons, anyway?” question is the starkest example I’ve seen of a question that is trivially answered by a quick look at the obvious Wikipedia entry.
I’d like to ...
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What are ways that we can show 3D orbits and other 3D things in posts?
I probably spent half a day figuring out how to make each of the GIFs shown below. It was gratifying as is all of my procrastinatory behavior here in Stack Exchange, but the reason it was done like ...
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What is "NIX" on the NASA Technical Reports Server?
As this question is more about resources to ask/answer questions than actual space exploration, I am asking it on meta. Feel free to adjust tags as appropriate.
The NASA Technical Reports Server ...
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Dummy answer and one in progress for the same question allowed?
Some questions have very complicated answers therefore the answer take time to write. I am sure that 2 people come up with the same answer often but one of them is outed on the time they put into ...
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How can NASA be alerted to their expired security certificates?
Linking to a NASA document as a reference in an answer or a question is at the moment complicated by the fact that they seem to have a bunch of expired security certificates for their websites. I ...
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Planetary and Lunar Landing: Documents & other References
I suppose it is appropriate to put this category of questions on meta.
This is too broad but I am looking for resources and references for Lunar/Planetary landers/landing.
Looked up NTRS using a ...
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Software tools for space exploration available online
There are a lot of calculators, simulators, plotters, visualizers, and libraries of bits of code and models and such online. Many of us are aware of a bunch of them, and they are great learning tools ...
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Space activities live: What are the current sources for video and data?
Is this possible -- useful / advisable / add your personal criteria -- to start building a page that would be a good reference for primary sources references?
What are the current available sources ...
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Where can you find stuff online to learn the math and physics key to Space Exploration SE?
Many answers on Space Exploration Stack Exchange are heavy on math and physics. I don't know how much this site is really meant to educate people with a casual interest, but that is certainly how I ...
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Educational resources to accompany Space Exploration
We have a couple threads containing infographics and a wide array of important books covering the topics we discuss on this site. Let's try to collect educational resources! This can include video ...
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Collection of space exploration related infographics
Infographics can be quite convenient sometimes, collating information from multiple sources and/or describing complex concepts in easy to understand and often visually pleasing way. Problem is, there ...
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Ideas for off-site Space Exploration community promotion ads
This is not a thread for community ads that would rotate on our own main site, those banner rotations are reserved for already graduated Stack Exchange webistes. However, nobody is stopping us from ...
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Promotional resources: Site invitation letter templates
This is a follow-up on @DeerHunter's inquiry regarding Contacting space agencies PAO (public affairs' offices). Since we've more or less agreed there that it's about time we start sending invitations ...
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