Liftoff to Space Exploration
This is definitely NASA's most accessible Web site.
It's operated by the
Marshall Space Flight Center, and contains a cornucopia of educational information
and news. It's geared slightly toward students and young people, but everyone will find
it informative and interesting, and you'll find the design well-done and entertaining.
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Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
| SEDS is an independent, student-based organization which promotes the
exploration and development of space, founded in 1980.
The SEDS Web Site is the tip of an
iceberg on the Internet, the entry point into a collection of sites that
in sheer mass of material (especially their image libraries) may be
second only to NASA.
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The SEDS site also hosts
Space Views,
a very nice online magazine published by the Boston chapter of the
National Space Society. Space Views honored space.magnificent.com as its
Space Site of the Week for 30 June 1997--thanks!
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JPL is the main NASA center responsible for
robotic space exploration. In the 1960s JPL sent Mariner spacecraft to Venus and Mars,
and in the 1970s landed Viking on Mars and sent the two Voyagers to the outer planets and
beyond. These days JPL is operating Galileo at Jupiter, the Pathfinder and Global Surveyor
spacecraft exploring Mars, and they'll be sending Cassini to Saturn later this year.
Its extensive image libraries make JPL's one of NASA's most interesting
Web sites.
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Dryden Research Aircraft Photo/Film Gallery
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center is located next to
Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert, and it's where for fifty years
NASA and the US Air Force have flight-tested the world's most advanced aircraft.
The Gallery's curator, Robert Binkley, has done an absolutely superb job of scanning and
posting on the Web a large collection of spectacular pictures of these advanced aircraft.
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NASA Headquarters
No list of space sites would be complete without NASA's
main Web site. NASA has a tremendous presence on the
Web, and its many sites collectively comprise one of the world's largest sites. If you want
to find anything at NASA, begin your search at headquarters.
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