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Space Travel, Astronomy

NASA

• NASA's home page
• JPL Goddard Space Flight Centre - Space Science Education
• Tidbinbilla Deep Space Communication Complex near Canberra, Australia
• NASA Space Link
• NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center Overview
• Humans in Space
• NASA's gopher /
• Questions? Ask Dr. Sue at Astronomy Online
• Today@NASA (Fresh Press Releases)

NASA Missions

• Cassini
• Galileo the Jupiter mission in two parts. Used gravity assists from Earth and Venus to reduce the fuel requirements for the trip out to Jupiter. The Atmospheric probe separated from the Orbiter and entered Jupiter's atmosphere in December 1995, sending data about Jupiter back to the Orbiter for 57 minutes before being vaporised by the heat of Jupiter's lower atmosphere.
• International Space Station
• Magellan the first planetary explorer to be launched by the Space Shuttle (Atlantis). It left Earth in 1989 and arrived at Venus in August 1990, used imaging radar to map Venus and finally used aerobraking to slow its velocity enough for it to plunge into the Venus atmosphere.
• Mars Global Surveyor launched in November 96 and intended to arrive in Mars orbit early in 1998; will use aerobraking to slow down to a low Mars orbit with a period of 2 hours. Commenced mapping Mars in January 1998. Its other roles included being a data relay station for landers and low altitude probes.
• Mars Pathfinder
• Pluto Express
• SOHO
• Space Shuttle
• Stardust
• TOPEX/Poseidon monitoring Earth's environment from an earth orbit
• Ulysses
• Viking mission
• Voyager

  Space Exploration

• COSSA (Australia)
• European Space Agency
• ISAS (Japan)
• Lunar and Planetary Institute
• History of Space Exploration

Astronomy, Radio Astronomy, Solar System and Outer Space

• Stromlo Exploratory a new feature of the Mt Stromlo Observatory, just west of Canberra. The observatory is a part of the Australian National University.
• Canberra Astronomical Society
• InfoSeek Net Search Results: space tracking
• Yahoo - Science/Astronomy/
• Yahoo - Science/Space/
• Australian Space home page
• Australia Telescope National Facility
• The Nine Planets a tour of the solar system with facts about each planet and its moons.
• The Astronomy Café
• Astronomy Home Page from Fremont, Michigan, USA.
• Earth and Universe
• Hubble Space Telescope
• Pictures from the Hubble Telescope
• Meteorite Central
• The Planetary Society
• Mars
  • NASA's Mars photo gallery
  • Mars - (Ames Research Center - Clickable atlas)
  • The Martian Chronicle - (Weekly Newsletter on Mars exploration)
  • CNN's multimedia look at Life on Mars
  • The Cydonia Files re life on Mars
  • Life on Mars (From FAS' Space Policy Project)
• National Air and Space Museum
• The Perseids meteor shower
• SETI - the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
• Science Online
• SNC Meteorites
• ScienceSpace Page
• Solar System Views

Planets

• Planetary Data Sciences
• The Planets
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Newsgroups to look at

• sci.space.science
• sci.astro
• k12.ed.science

Rocketry

• Yahoo - Recreation:Hobbies and Crafts:Rockets
• Rocket Society Home Movies