Title | Annotation |
|---|---|
| A History of World Space Development | |
| AAAE: Archives of American Aerospace Exploration | |
| About Goddard Space Flight Center | This site from NASA contains a brief biography and photograph of the physicist and "father of modern rocket propulsion," Robert Hutchings Goddard. Among the many firsts by Goddard listed, is the first liquid fuel rocket (1926), which led to the development of military missiles and the possibility of space exploration. A link on the liquid fueled rocket leads to several photographs and engineering sketches and an account of its inaugural flight. Statistics (size, employees, locations, funding, milestones) about the NASA center which is named after Goddard are also available. |
| Adherence to the 1976 Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space | |
| Aerodrome: Aces and Aircraft of World War I | The Areodrome site offers lists of World War I aces, their combat stats, and a chronology of kills and events. The site offers little historical background or narative text; however, the site is useful for short desciptions of many kinds of WWI aircraft, and short bios of specific aces, which include military honors, time, date, and location of their kills, and what aircraft they flew. The site is not searchable, but all of the records are indexed and linked to make the site very easy to navigate. |
| AeroFiles - American Aviation from 1903 to 2003 | This extensive site hosts information about the history of aeronautics on more then 300 pages. Historians of science and technology will find useful the pages devoted to timelines, chronologies, biographies, aircraft, power plants and some of the articles found in the features page. The Aeronautica Archives and Collections page may prove useful to researchers who are attempting to locate major collections in the United States. With so much information, the site is not easily navigated, however patient researchers may find more than a few things of interest here. |
| Air Mail Pioneers | The Air Mail Pioneers are an organization dedicated to preserving information on the partnership between the U.S. Postal Service and the U.S. Air Service, which flew mail across the country from 1918-1927. These aviators and crewmen became some of the first commercial air workers and helped to integrate flight into the every-day life of Americans. The site displays a gallery of images, lists and bios of Air Mail Service pilots, and an informative historical essay about the Air Service. |
| Airline History | This site is truly extensive, covering the history of commercial aviation throughout the world. The site gives brief histories of the beginnings and development of airlines in the United Kingdom, America, and Europe. For those interested in airlines in other parts of the world, the contents also include an exhaustive list of profiles of current and past airlines listed alphabetically, from ABA_Swedish Airlines to ZONDA-Zonas Oeste y Norte de Aerolineas Argentinas. |
| Airship Heritage Trust | Airshipsonline exists to provide viewers with access to the archives of the Airship Heritage Trust. The trust was originally established by enthusiasts and relatives of crew members, and continues as an effort to preserve airship history. The site includes a vast array of information relating to all aspects of lighter-than-air technology, especially in the U.K. Uninitiated readers can visit the online reference section to read an elaborate history of airships in general, or individual models. |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - History and Archives | |
| Apollo at Thirty | |
| Apollo Guidance Computer | |
| Apollo Lunar Surface Journal | This site documents the NASA Apollo missions to the moon from 1969-1972. The site includes mission summaries, crew bios, flight plans, communication transcripts, and more. Special features of the site are video and audio files, and supplemental commentary by most of the Apollo astronauts. Technical descriptions of the tools and equipment help readers understand the astronauts' work. This site offers a large collection of materials concerning the nuts and bolts of the Apollo flights with some supplemental historical background added for context. |
| Astronaut Connection | |
| Astronomy Branch Library | |
| Astronomy Notes | |
| Blacks in Aviation | |
| Boeing - History | |
| Boeing Celebrates Apollo 11 30th Anniversary | |
| Bristol Aeroplane Company |
