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Space Stations and Shuttles

News

1. Space Stations and Shuttles News (KidsAstronomy.com)
   Provides information on the latest space missions, discoveries, and achievements each day. 11-00.

Projects

1. Shuttle Discovery - Move It (CNN)
   Allows visitors to move the Discovery space shuttle using movements of the mouse. (Requires free animation software.) 4-01

Lists

1. Space Exploration Search (NASA)
   Searches NASA for information on space exploration, such as flights to Mars or the Moon, the Space Station, telescopes, pictures of planets, and more.

News

1. Space Station and Shuttle (NASA Human Spaceflight - Dismukes and Humphries)
   Provides news on events surrounding space stations and shuttles. 2-01

Papers

1. History of U.S. Space Flight (NASA)
   Provides a history on astronauts and different missions, including Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Soyuz, and the space shuttle.
2. Mir - Space Shuttle to Mir (NASA)
   Provides information on different shuttles to Mir and includes the John Glenn flight.
3. Space Flight - Map of Web Site (NASA)
   Provides information on space flights, including stories on the International Space Station. This new NASA site has a search engine and consolidates most other NASA Web sites for space exploration.
4. Space Flight News (NASA)
   Provides information on space flights, including stories on the International Space Station. This new NASA site has a search engine and consolidates most other NASA Web sites for space exploration.
5. Track Satellites, Hubble Telescope and Mir (J-Track)
   Provides the location of satellites, the Hubble telescope, Mir space station and other objects orbiting in space. Also see which parts of the earth have daylight.