| There are many wonderful sites on the World
Wide Web covering astronomy, space exploration, etc.
Although we cannot guarantee their content, we have found
these to be worthy of your attention. We recommend
you visit them and make your own judgments. Air Force Association's Space Almanac
Contains "The Year in Space," information on US
and foreign space programs, etc.
Space Almanac 2005
National Aeronautics & Space Administration
NASA's home page includes links to many of its programs
and field sites.
http://www.nasa.gov/
The Mars Global Surveyor, launched in 1996, is
photographing the Red Planet.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/
If Jupiter is more to your liking, go to the home page for
the Galileo probe.
http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/
Space Flight Now
This site has information and pictures of launches
throughout the world. It includes day of launch
updates.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/
Space. COM
This is a widely viewed source of information with lots of
links.
http://www.space.com/
Sky & Telescope
This magazine has a site that is updated weekly.
http://www.skypub.com/
Bradford Robotic Telescope Observatory
This English observatory will let you point its telescope
where you want it, though the waiting list may be a few
weeks long!
http://www.telescope.org
Views of the Solar System
Not only does this site, provided by the Hawaiian
Astronomical Society, have outstanding content, but it is
multi-lingual.
http://www.solarviews.com/
Space Primer
The Aerospace Corporation, an El Segundo, CA, based
Federally Funded Research & Development Center, has
created a primer on space fundamentals.
http://www.aero.org/publications/SpacePrinc/
Home Planet
John Walker has created a free, comprehensive
astronomy/space/satellite-tracking program for Win95 and
WinNT. Version 2.0 for Win3.1 is still available
too.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/homeplanet/
Satellite Images of Earth
The TerraServer-USA Web site is one of the world's largest
online databases, providing free public access to a vast
data store of maps and aerial photographs of the United
States. TerraServer is designed to work with commonly
available computer systems and Web browsers over slow
speed communications links. The TerraServer name is a play
on words, with 'Terra' referring to the 'earth' or 'land'
and also to the terabytes of images stored on the site.
http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com
Astronomy Picture of the Day
This site features a high quality image with a description
of its significance, written by a professional astronomer
in clear, easy to understand terms. The site is at
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Star Times
Every few days, the author scours many other online news
reporting services looking for astronomy news. Most
of the entries are links to articles in other
publications. Topics include the space program, and
recent findings about the Universe. A one stop
shopping for Astronomy News!
http://startimes.webjump.com
Astronomical Society of the Pacific's List of
Clubs
If you are interested in joining an astronomy club, this
is the place to look. The list is world-wide in
scope.
http://www.aspsky.org/
Florida Today's Space Online Page
This Brevard County, FL, newspaper maintains up to the
minute information about American civilian and military
space launches.
http://www.flatoday.com/space
CNN Interactive Space Home Page
The 24-hour a day news network has an excellent site on
space.
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/index.html
The Nine Planets
This is a multi-media tour of our solar system written by
Bill Arnet. It can be found at
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
History & Principles of Aeronautics
NASA Aerospace Learning Laboratory for Science, Technology
& Research (ALLSTAR) Network
at the Florida International University, Miami-Dade
County, FL, includes on-line lessons for students from
middle school through college levels.
http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/
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