For those interested in vintage & new publications, flown hardware, autographs etc... Visit the collectSpace.com website ( a great resource + forum )
www.collectspace.com

Some other UMSF-related resources

Lunar & Planetary globes:
http://www.androidworld.com/prod64.htm

Mars terrains & huge Mars globe
http://www.spacemodelsystems.com/

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Feel free to add-on folks

You can get the Moon, Venus and Mars globes at Sky & Telescope (for much cheaper than the other sites). I own the Mars and Venus globes, they're not bad, although NASA's false color map of Venus is fugly.

There is also a British company that makes professional-quality globes: Greeves & Thomas. They can make globes from 12" to 43" diameter, although the very large ones are as much as $15,000. They will do a custom globe from a latitude/longitude image. Yeah, expensive, but be sure to check out their site.

Don:

Greaves and Thomas also have the advantage of wild enthusiasm for globes in general, and a serious sense of humour - have a look at the company van!

Of particular interest to Soviet space researchers is their 'Maxwell-Pergamon' Lunar globe, based on an unissued early Soviet globe which was *meant* to have been distributed by the infamous Robert Maxwell.

They sell 'seconds' on eBay from time to time, where there's some slight flaw in a globe. These can be quite a lot cheaper.

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/greavesandthomas/

Bob Shaw

Mars panaromas:
http://www.moonpans.com/mars/

I have a few space pictures up in my house. I get any of the MER panoramas at huge size for free from NASA: Mars Rover Panoramas


Then send them to these guys to be printed and framed: American Frame.

Sure Don, photobox.co.uk is a similar service in Great Britain
Some questions:
1. At which size do You print those panoramas ?
( I have the Pathfinder/Sojouner panorama which is almost 3 feet long )
2. Any other good photo-services ?

Most of these industrial sized color printers expect 72 pixels per inch. I resize the images in something that can do a windowed-sinc filter, such as the Lanczos filter in ACDSee. Photoshop, for some odd reason, still only has a bicubic filter which is not nearly as good. I don't let the printers do the image resizing, because god knows what they would use.

I haven't looked around at photo services much. They all have one of the 3 or 4-foot wide HP or Epson inkjet printers, which are fine. Even the cheap ones you buy for home use are remarkably good these days.

Thanks for the update Don ... Photobox.co.uk uses FUJI photo-paper but I guess KODAK photo-paper is better ?

There are Photoshop plugins available. Here's one that works pretty well -- supposedly based on the the same process as the Lanczos filter.

http://photoshop.pluginsworld.com/plugin.p...shop&plugin=188

Looks like they also started to make 'terrain models' of the other planets & moons

http://www.spacemodelsystems.com/terrains.html

Some nice 'floating' globes ... yes they have Mars
http://www.ledindon.com/objet-cadeau-solaire-nature/7111.php