tat. 426, establishes NASA and is designed to "provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the earths atmosphere."
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Official site, full of historical and up-to-date information on the space program.
- Provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, "SkyView is a Virtual Observatory on the Net generating images of any part of the sky." Includes images, a blog, and a non-astronomers page.
- Solar System
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory site, gives information about and images from NASAs unmanned spacecraft. Includes links to missions exploring objects in the solar system.
- Space Exploration Timeline
- Documents achievements in space since the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957.
- Space Station
- Based on the PBS program, examines the financial, technical and political challenges of creating the International Space Station through questions, interactive activities, and images.
- Space Today Online
- Covers general space topics, including current events, history, and lesson plans.
- Maintained by the University of Texas McDonald Observatory, offers tips for stargazers, astronomy education, and lesson plans.
- Views of the Solar System
- Photos and scientific information, including history of space exploration, rocketry, early astronauts, space missions, spacecraft through the use of text, graphics, images, and videos.
- Windows to the Universe
- Features interactive resources on Earth and space sciences; graphics intensive site.
Fireworks at star formation taken by Hubble Space Telescope.
(Courtesy of NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team)