Aviation/Space Exploration

The Small Bodies Data Base (SBDB), currently in development, will combine the contents of all our online catalogs with our catalog of offline data to provide direct access to both datasets and individual results. The SBDB will eventually allow users to identify objects based on observed properties and to retrieve data relevant to specific selected objects. During the first stage of implementation, each online catalog is ingested into the database and the contents made available for display based on object identification. A cross-identification utility is built into the interface, so that only a single ID need be entered to retrieve all available data relevant to the object.

Il museo storico dell'Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, inaugurato il 4 maggio 1992, consta di circa cento oggetti ed e' una testimonianza, unica in tutto il Mezzogiorno, di quello che fu la strumentazione astronomica utilizzata in tutto l'Ottocento e nei primi decenni del Novecento.
La visita al museo inizia nello splendido atrio dell'edificio monumentale dove, negli intercolumni di un ambiente architettonico di chiara impronta neoclassica, sono esposti alcuni telescopi (prima dotazione strumentale dell'Osservatorio) montati su strutture lignee mobili.

The Astronaut Connection- your guide to space, the history of its exploration, and a cross-section of the men and women who have explored it.
From the website's introduction in 1996 and throughout the its existence, the staff of The Astronaut Connection has worked to create an educational and entertaining resource for space enthusiasts, young and old, to learn about astronauts and space exploration.

El equipo que trabaja en el proyecto MUSEO HISPANO DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGIA está en proceso de seleccionar documentación científica e imágenes de aquellos instrumentos, aparatos y maquinaria de gran relevancia que se encuentran en las más prestigiosas instituciones de caracter museológico y científico. Al mismo tiempo se trabaja en el diseño de la ingeniería de telecomunicación que permita el acceso a miles de objetos, así como de otra información interactiva.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Virtual Museum has a counterpart outside of cyberspace with material manifestations of many of the objects that you see in its virtual exhibits.

The brothers were ambivalent about how much to tell the world of their breakthrough achievement, but after eating lunch, they walked four miles to the Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, weather station and sent this telegram to their father, instructing him to "inform press." The message went from this station to Norfolk, Virginia, where it was relayed to Western Union for transmittal to Dayton, Ohio. In transmission the fifty-nine seconds became fifty-seven, and Orville Wright's first name was spelled "Orevelle."

RSAA Library Resources
Special collections/resources: There is a large historical collection, the Observatory Publications, that is generally not listed in the online catalogue. A card index is held at MSO and the material is arranged alphabetically by country then under the name of the institution. Items published since 1980 are included on Innopac and are all catalogued at QB4..... . This does not indicate their shelf arrangement. Items in the slide and video collections are available for overnight loan only. Some older material is located in the WK Hancock Building.

As its contribution to the 500th Anniversary of The Encounter of Two Worlds, Millersville University of Pennsylvania created and installed The Computerized Information Retrieval System (CIRS) on Columbus and the Age of Discovery in 1989.
A joint research project of the History Department and Academic Computing Services, CIRS is a text retrieval system containing over 1100 text articles from magazines, journals, newspapers, speeches, official calendars and other sources relating to various encounter themes.

Awarded the status of an "Official Project" by the U.S. Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee Commission, Spain 1992, and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, CIRS and its databases are freely available to you through your Internet connection

The IPL has a special collection in KidSpace that serves as a resource on American presidents. Presidents of the United States or POTUS provide biographies, election results, and key facts about our nation's leaders. To find out about your favorite president, visit POTUS.