Are you ready to ride the Curiosity to the surface of Gale crater? This 3-D environment created with NASA mission data allows students to experience space and time. With this website students can also hop on an asteroid, fly a Voyager...

NASA Web Site about the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project which included Donald "Deke" Slayton, one of the original seven American astronauts. The mission was the first joint Soviet-American space mission. Links are provided to descriptions and...

The mission profile of the Challenger accident, including the sequence of events, images and movie clips, crew profiles, and the report of the Presidential Commission.

This web page contains information about Mariner I and Mariner II. The page explains how Mariner II was the first spacecraft to successfully fly by another planet. Includes detailed chronology of the Mariner missions.

The story of America's first astronaut to orbit the earth during the Mercury Space program. After launching the program click on continue or on the numbers to learn about the story of the Mercury program and the first American to orbit...

A biography of Sally Ride, the first American woman to travel to space. She flew on two Space Shuttle Challenger missions. After the Challenger disaster in 1986, she served on the Presidential Commission investigating the accident, and...

Meet the first Latina in space Dr. Ellen Ochoa, presented here by Smithsonian in a short biography and descriptions of her missions.

An exciting new way to explore the Apollo moon missions, visit the moon on this interactive map and take a tour of each Apollo landing.

This site provides a detailed overview of the TRACE (Transition Region and Coronal Explorer) satellite mission, data received, details about the instrumentation, and how to interpret the data.

The New York Times website provides extensive coverage of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Here you can read an archive of news articles related to the disaster, and check out photo galleries and interactive features.

Enter our solar system to interact with the planets, moons, asteroids, meteors, and more. Investigate with NASA scientists and explore missions related to space exploration. Read facts, compare statistics, look through resources, and...

This site has links to many NASA resources about the Apollo program. Detailed information on each of the Apollo missions as well as a large number of images are available from this site.

Features lots of projects for students to learn about space and space exploration.

This site has an activity to make a hand-held telescope. "The Hubble Space Telescope that's orbiting Earth right now is the size of a school bus, but you can make a model of it that you can hold in your hands!"

This site has links to many NASA resources about the Gemini program. Detailed information on Gemini missions and many images are available from this site.

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.

This web page contains images and information on the Mariner 10 space mission. The information is available in audio format.

This site from NASA has information on the Galileo space mission, which launched in October 1989. In spite of technical problems, Galileo transmitted enormous amounts of new data, especially about Jupiter and its satellites and rings,...

This site has a biography of Astronaut Judith Resnik who was the second woman to travel in space.

This site from NASA provides a summary of the Gemini 8 space mission flown by Neil Armstrong and David R. Scott.

Site provides information about STS-107, the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia flight. Find information about the flight, biographies of the crew, mission objectives, etc.

Information about some of the early animal astronauts who were launched into space to help determine the effects of space travel on human beings.

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.

A NASA photo of the Space Shuttle Discovery as it launches into space on another important mission.