Space Shuttle Links
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National Air and Space Museum
This is a vast site with a number of components - featured exhibits, collections, educational information, and links. The featured exhibits focus on certain historical events or issues, such as African-Americans in aviation history or Apollo. The museum galleries are all available online as well. The collections include 360-degree virtual views inside space modules or planes in the museum, and summaries and images of space artifacts and aircraft. You can also watch artifact restoration in progress in real time via a web cam, or read the history and reference resources. The educational sections of the site include geography from space, satellite images of the United States, and exploring the planets of the solar system. A number of resources for teachers are also available.
Young Astronauts Council
The Young Astronauts Council is federally-mandated program that offers integrated, multimedia educational programs about space. There is an educational curriculum guide for grades called "Mission: Science," and the twice-weekly television program "Space School." They produce CD-Roms, and the website has an online forum and community component, in addition to materials for after-school clubs. The website is divided into 2 separate sections, for kids and adults.
National Weather Service Columbia Loop
The National Weather Service offers radar images of Columbia Shuttle path of descent across the southern United States.
Columbia Shuttle Disaster - an Internet Guide
This article describes coverage of the Columbia shuttle on the web, from news sources to online magazines, to discussion threads and web bloggers and commentators. It is a useful resource for non-NASA and technical info.
Space.com
This site has it all - news, informational articles, and images. There are also very active message boards and sections of the site devoted to space flight, science and astronomy, technology, and image collections. Because the site is a component of Space Holding Corp., their consumer CDs, DVDs, and software are also advertised on the site.
European Space Agency
The European Space Agency exists through a multi-national collaborative effort, and there is a clear introduction into purposes and goals of the agency. There are also roughly 1,000 images and videos available. The website's focus is on the benefits of space exploration for Europe and the world in general, including improvements in daily life and protecting the environment. The ESA Science page has a focus on education: http://sci.esa.int/
NASA homepage
The NASA website provides a wealth of information, with several sections directed to specific audiences, namely kids, students, educators, and the press. There are articles about improving life on Earth, space exploration, and the study of the universe, including the possibility of life beyond our planet. News from different missions and events are featured. Career opportunities are described for students, recent graduates, educators, and professionals. The site is immense, but not difficult to navigate.
NASA for Educators
This section includes Space Science Education Resources, lesson plans, images, articles, interactive features, and multimedia.
NASA for Kids
With games and activities as well as articles written for kids, this is a great place to learn about exploration, science on earth, and space.
Johnson Space Center
People, programs, research, news, and history of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas are easily found on this site. Space Center Houston is the visitorıs center and has itıs own website http://www.spacecenter.org/.
Kennedy Space Center
Information about Space Shuttles, Expendable Launch Vehicles, and the International Space Station is available on this site. Information about visiting the Kennedy Space Center and viewing launches in Cape Canaveral, Florida is also found here.
NASA Columbia
This is the NASA site for remembering the expedition and crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia. Crew profiles, a mission overview, news and alerts, information regarding the resulting investigation, and content from memorials is all here.
Office of Biological and Physical Research
Read about the scientific experiments that took place on the STS-107 Columbia Research Mission.
NASA History Office
Articles about the history of space shuttle are here, as well as press kits about each mission. An annotated bibliography, reference manual on technical data, and other updates about the program are available.
Shuttle Mission Archive
Summaries of each every Shuttle mission, shuttle launch schedules, and images from the shuttle program are available here.
Space Shuttle News Reference Manual, 1988
This is the reference manual for the space shuttle program. It is a lengthy and detailed document with extensive hypertext links to background and related information. The Reference Manual describes every single component of the Space Shuttle system, including technical structure, crew equipment, the propulsion system, etc. This is the resource for every last detail.
Langley Technical Reports Server (LTRS)
This site allows you to search NASA published documents available online, including Meeting Presentations, Journal Articles, Conference Proceedings, and Technical Reports. They are also indexed by year.
NASA Human Space Flight
All elements of Human Space Flight are covered in this page. Information about Space Shuttles, the Space Station, and astronaut training is available. News about the missions, Realtime data tracking the missions and sighting opportunities, and some of the ideas behind space exploration are also here. The page is very accessible and easily navigated.
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