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Apollo 11 - The First Moon Landing "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Basics of Space Flight A Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) online tour. This guide provides an overview of how spacecraft missions operate.
Beginners Guide To Aerodynamics This page has summative information on aerodynamics. Click on the highlighted words for more explanations and online simulations.
Genesis NASA scientists are involved in a mission to learn the composition of the sun.
How Hubble Space Telescope Works The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most amazing machines in orbit right now. Find out what it can do and how it works.
How Mars Odyssey Works Mars Odyssey is NASA's latest Mars spacecraft, and it's going to the red planet in search of water. Learn how this orbiter could pave the way for manned missions to Mars!
Hubble Space Telescope Videos The Hubble Space Telescope website contains a remarkable and diverse collection of videos. These videos include original footage from the telescope, artistic renditions, three-dimensional animations, and Hubblecasts - short documentary films that highlight recent ESA/NASA developments.
International Space Station Voyage with Astronauts and Cosmonauts at this NASA-ISS site.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory The leading U.S. center for robotic exploration of the solar system has created a site so that you can explore its special features, missions, instruments, and programs.
JPL Fact Sheets Learn more about NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in facts sheets found here. Located in California, the laboratory is primarily responsible for deep space systems.
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera Readers interested in high-quality images of the moon may appreciate the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), which has been in operation since 2009. This project describes itself as a "system of three cameras mounted on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) that capture high resolution photos of the lunar surface." Visitors may like to begin with LROC's Images section, where they will find dozens of photographs of lunar features such as the Sea of Tranquility and the crater Giordano Bruno, as well as downloadable videos created using LROC images and data.
Maldives (Views from Space) Learn about the atolls of the Maldives and how scientists use satellites to study these coral reefs.
NASA Astronaut Biographies Welcome to the astronaut biographies homepage, providing biographical information regarding those who participate or have participated in NASA’s space flight programs as candidates for, or members of, space flight crews.
NASA For Educators Lesson plans, teacher guides, classroom activities, video clips, games, posters, and more for teachers and students in grades K-4, 5-8, 9-12, and higher education.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Welcome to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) home page. Learn all about the United States' space program.
NASA History Division The one place to go for all your NASA historical facts.
NASA Kennedy Space Center Home Page Get tons of information about the space shuttle, past missions and future missions, and what they are working on now. This site also contains links to the NASA home page and the US government home page.
NASA: Apollo 11 - 50th Anniversary To commemorate the 50th anniversary of this historic event, NASA has created this website. Upon their arrival, visitors are greeted with an audio clip of the moment that the Apollo 11 mission successfully landed on the lunar surface. From the home page, there are prominent links to collections of both archival and retrospective videos, images, and audio recordings covering multiple Apollo missions, some of which can also be downloaded.
NASA Solar System Exploration NASA's Solar System Exploration website continues to offer a number of engaging ways to learn about planets, dwarf planets, moons, and other celestial bodies that make up our solar system. This sleekly designed and frequently updated website - featuring stunning photographs, detailed diagrams, educational resources, and a number of interesting interactives.
NASA Spaceplace for Kids This award winning site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration contains wonderful information, animations and games (also in Spanish).
NASA White Sands Test Facility Take the "armchair" tour of the White Sands test facility which handles rockets, testing and engineering experiments.
New Horizons The Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission will help us understand worlds at the edge of our solar system by making the first reconnaissance of Pluto and Charon. This "double planet" is located at the outer edge of our solar system.
NISE Network: Moon Landing 50th Anniversary Educators in a variety of settings may want to check out this collection of resources assembled by the National Informal STEM Education (NISE) Network to help commemorate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. In this well-organized collection, readers will find links to five websites created by NASA and the Lunar Planetary Institute specifically for this anniversary, as well as links to nine of NASA's resources with information about the moon and the Apollo program, all of which were produced with general audiences in mind. For elementary educators, there are links to two of NASA's summaries of the Apollo program that were written for younger audiences, one for students in grades 5-8 and another for grades K-4. Additionally, there are numerous hands-on activities related to the moon and space exploration (from the NISE Network, NASA, and other organizations) that could be adapted for classroom use.
Remembering Columbia STS-107 Capture the adventure and tragedy of man’s venture into space at this NASA-Columbia site. Learn about the tragic loss of Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew at this memorial site.
Spectra from Space This site provides a look at four orbiting observatories, including the Hubble telescope, dedicated to different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Surveyor NASA Lunar Lander Missions. (1966-1968)
The Apollo Program (1963-1972) Information from NASA manned spaceflights to the moon.
The Hubble Telescope Look at pictures from the Hubble Telescope and find out about NASA's amazing new technology.
The Women @ NASA This site offers information on and about the women who work at NASA. The list includes technical support people as well as astronauts.
Visible Earth NASA's Visible Earth is a searchable directory of images, visualizations, and animations of Earth science-related images being produced by several NASA projects including Terra and SeaWiFS. Images are categorized by location, satellite, and topic, and are also searchable using a full-text search engine. Resources include agriculture, atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, human dimensions, hydrosphere, land surface, oceans, radiance or imagery, and solid earth. Accompanying each image are credits, data about the image, the satellite it was taken from, a description of what is shown, and a high-resolution viewable image.
Voyager I Everything you want to know about the Voyager including mission, spacecraft description, planetary tours, images, and a bibliography.
X-38 Technology Project to develop the technology for a prototype emergency crew return vehicle (CRV), or lifeboat, for the International Space Station (ISS).