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Nasa Space Science Data Archive: Russian Lunar Missions
Details the Russian lunar missions from Luna 1 to Zond 8.
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Nasa: Return to Flight
The United States has returned to flight. Find out more on this exciting mission to the moon in 2005. Watch footage documenting the mission, updates, and the findings from NASA's comprehensive site.
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Nasa: Salyut 4
Overview of the Salyut 4 space station mission and instrumentation. Has a great picture of the computer rendering of the space station.
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Nasa: "Faith 7 for 22 Orbits"a
This site from NASA provides a detailed description of the final Mercury mission where Gordon Cooper orbited the earth 22 times alone for the last "Solo" American space mission.
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Nasa: Apollo Crews and Records
This site from NASA provides a listing of all Apollo mission primary and back up crews along with the "CapComs" or ground to spacecraft communicatators. The first through seventh astronaut selection groups and a listing of Accumulated...
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Nasa: Deep Space 2
NASA providese an interactive site for kids to learn about the Deep Space 2 mission.
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Nasa: Astronaut Biography: Ronald E. Mc Nair, ph.d
Official NASA biography of Ronald McNair, the mission specialist on the Challenger spacecraft which exploded shortly after launch.
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Nasa: Astronaut Biography: Ellison S. Onizuka
Official NASA biography of Ellison S. Onizuka, the mission specialist on the Challenger spacecraft which exploded shortly after launch.
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Nasa: Astronaut Biography: Judith A. Resnik, ph.d.
The official NASA biography for Judith A. Resnik who was the mission specialist on board the Challenger spacecraft when it exploded in 1986.
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Nasa: Jupiter Voyager 1
This site from NASA provides general information about the Voyager 1 spacecraft which visited Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in 1980. Voyager is now the most distant man made object in the universe.
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Nasa: Wally Schirra Gemini 6 Summary
A brief outline of the Gemini 6 mission. Links to other NASA websites are available.
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Nasa: Wally Schirra Mercury 8 Summary
A brief outline of the third American Earth orbit mission. Links to other NASA websites are available.
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Nasa: Bibliography on Martian Exploration
This site from NASA provides a selected Annotated Bibliography on Martian Exploration presents classical Mars reading material from Percival Lowell and Alfred Russel Wallace from the turn of the last century, Werner von Braun and Willy...
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Nasa: The Jpl Aerobot
This site provides an overview of the JPL Aerobot and other autonomy technologies that are being developed by NASA.
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Nasa: Effect of the Sun's Energy on the Ocean and Atmosphere
A project based lesson where students' mission is to conduct a series of tasks that enable them to audit Earth's energy budget and help answer a number of science questions.
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The Solar Data Analysis Center (Sdac)
The Solar Data Analysis Center at NASA provides all the latest information learned about the sun. Content includes a look at information brought back by several satellites.
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Spongelab Interactive: Nasa: Grail & the Moon
[Free Registration/Login Required] A website dedicated to exploring the Grail spacecraft and its mission to the moon. Students can learn about the scientific investigations the Grail is performing to learn more about the moon.
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Nasa Space Science Data Archive: Surveyor (1966 1968)
See pictures of the Surveyor, as well as a small description of the Surveyor mission objectives, along with launch,landing dates and coordinates.
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Nasa: Martian Diaries
Learn what Mars is like from Martians! Well, people that are working on the Mars mission. This blog site contains firs-hand accounts on what is information is being recovered from Curiosity.
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Nasa: Project Apollo Patches
This site from NASA provides illustrations of the Apollo Program mission patches worn by the astronauts and used by NASA in connection with each mission.
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Mocomi: The Apollo Missions
Overview and interesting facts about NASA's Apollo missions.
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Nasa: Buildup for the Space Offensive
This site from NASA provides a detailed description of the events immediately preceding the first American in orbit mission of the Mercury spacecraft Friendship 7.
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Nasa: John Glenn the Hero
This site from NASA provides a detailed description of events following the successful 3 Earth orbit mission of the Friendship 7 Mercury spacecraft.
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Nasa: Ibex: Interstellar Boundary Explorer
This NASA article showcases the new Missions Operations Manager of the Interstellar Boundary Explorer. Learn about her educational background and why she decided to work for NASA.