NASA Human
Spaceflight
http://www.physics.ncsu.edu/demoroom/
If you
want to learn about NASA's human exploration and development of space, you must
vist NASA's Human Spaceflight site. NASA continuously posts the latest
information on shuttle launches and maintains current updates on the Space
Shuttle missions. Great graphics and space shots! Includes sections on prior
shuttle launches, the international space station, and space history.
NASA Information
Services
http://www.gsfe.nasa.gov
The National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA) Homepage is the world's most comprehensive web
site that deals with space and space exploration. Beware: This site is extensive
and you can find yourself spending many hours in awe looking at space photos and
learning about the many famous NASA missions. This site has some of the most
impressive graphics and quicktime movies on the web!
The Nine
Planets Tour
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp
The Nine
Planets is a multimedia tour of the solar system. This web site is a virtual
essay about our solar system with text, pictures, sounds and an occasional movie.
The planets and major moons in our solar system are briefly described and
illustrated with fantastic pictures from NASA spacecraft.
Galileo
Space Probe
http://ccf.arc.nasa.gov/galileo_probe/
The
Galileo space probe has its own home page! It documents the exploration of
Jupiter. The pictures are spectacular!
Hubble Space
Telescope
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/
Hubble Space
Telescope and Space Telescope Science Institute gives access to the latest images
from space.
NASA's
Microgravity Research Experiments (MICREX) Database
http://mgravity.itsc.uah.edu/microgravity/micrex/micrex.stm
NASA's
MICREX datatbase has descriptions of experiments run in space. It's a good start
for research projects.
Welcome to the
Planets
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/
Welcome to the
Planets is an outstanding resource for teachers wishing to incorporate planetary
studies into their curriculum. This website includes color pictures of the
planets and access to information on their masses, densities, revolution and
rotation periods, mean temperatures, atmospheric components, etc. Also, there
are color pictures of space exploreration vehicles with information on their
structures, assemblies, orbiting information, and dates of deployments. This
website also includes a glossary of terms and a listing of mirror sites.
Mars Pathfinder
Mission
http://mars.sgi.com/
This great web site offers a
variety of choices to access Mars Pathfinder Mission information. This site not
only has various pictures from various views, but it also gives great
explanations on all the space exploration trips done by missions here in the
United States and overseas. If you want to study Mars' atmospheric temperature,
then you will want to check out this web site. Live videos and audios are
included.
Space
Views/Pathfinder Arrives at Mars
http://www.seds.org/spaceviews/pathfinder//
This web site is great for
grades 6-12 teachers and students! Included at this site are a quiz with great
pictures, a teacher's tour guide, and information from CNN. Use this web site to
see if there is life or water on mars. Also, take a look to see comet
Hale-Bopp through many links and images.
Mullard Space Science
Lab-Datasets Available
http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/
This is
a great web site rom the University College in London for grades 9-12 teachers
and students. Will you have a career day at your school? If so, this is a good
site to visit about a career in space. This web site features: astro-physics,
solar physics, plasma physics, climate physics, and detector physics.
Astronomy
Datasets and Atlases
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/astro/astronomy_databases.html
Quest: NASA K-12
Internet Initiative
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/
Live From
Mars
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/
Planetary
Photojournal:
NASA's Image Access Home Page
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/
Spacelink - An Aeronautics
& Space Resource for
Education
http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov/home.index.html
The National Association of
Space Simulating Educators
http://www.us.edu/nasse/
Solar
System Live
http://www.fourmilab.ch/solar/solar.html
The Galileo
Project
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/
Astronomy With A
Stick
http://www.nsta.org/programs/sst/aws/aws.htm
Earthshots
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/tableofcontents
Pathfinder Sojourner
Rover Simulation
http://mars.graham.com/wits/
NASA
Observatorium
http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/
NASA's Education
Program
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/education/
NASA's Learning
Technology Project
http://learn.ivv.nasa.gov/
NASA Classroom of the
Future
http://www.cotf.edu/
Liftoff to Space
Exploration
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/
Spacelink Microgravity Teachers Guide 6-12
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/NASA.Educational.Products/Microgravity/
Microgravity Science Research Space Shuttle Missions Lithograph
Series
http://mgnwww.larc.nasa.gov/missions/default.html
Microgravity Science Research Discipline Lithograph Series
http://mgnwww.larc.nasa.gov/litho2/index.html
NASA Space Life
Science Outreach
http://weboflife.arc.nasa.gov/
NeurOn - Neurolab
Online
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/neuron/
Cassini: Voyage
to Saturn
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/
Mission to Geospace
http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/
International
Solar-Terrestrial Physics
http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Ulysses Mission to the
Sun
http://ulysses.jpl.nasa.gov/
Lunar
Prospector
http://lunarprospector.arc.nasa.gov/
Imagine the
Universe!
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/
MAP - Microwave
Anisotropy Probe
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Stanford Solar
Center
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/
Sunspots
http://www.exploratorium.edu/sunspots/
NASA's Origins
Program
http://origins.jpl.nasa.gov/
Amazing Space
Web-Based Activities
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/
Who's Out There? A SETI
Adventure
http://www.seti.org/game/
EarthRISE
http://earthrise.sdsc.edu/
Windows to the
Universe
http://www.windows.umich.edu/
NASA/MSU-Bozeman
CERES Project
http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/
The Satellite
Site
http://www.thetech.org/exhibits_events/online/satellite/
The IMAGE/POETRY
K12 Space Science Site
http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/
Genesis: Search
for Origins
http://genesismission.jpl.nasa.gov/
SOHO: The Solar and
Heliospheric Observatory
http://sohowww.estec.esa.nl/