Lunar and Planetary Institute

MSNBC Space News

NASA Homepage

NASA Kids

Ames Research Center

3-D Tour of the Solar System: Teacher's Guide and 3-D Posters

Frequently Asked Questions about NASA

Goddard Space Flight Center
The Goddard Space Flight Center seeks to expand our knowledge of the Earth and its environment, the solar system and the universe through observations from space.

International Space Station
The mission is to build and operate the International Space Station-a world class orbital research facility that is safe, productive, affordable, and attainable. As the station is built this web site will also grow, bringing you up to date information on our progress.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the lead U.S. center for robotic exploration of the solar system. JPL spacecraft have visited all known planets except Pluto (a Pluto mission is currently under study for the late 1990s).

Johnson Space Center

Kennedy Space Center
Carved out of virgin savanna and marsh in the early 1960's as the departure point for Project Apollo's manned explorations of the moon, the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) has primary responsibility for ground turnaround and support operations, prelaunch checkout and launch of the Space Shuttle and its payloads, including NASA's eventual Space Station.

Langley Research Center

Lunar Prospector
Lunar Prospector went into orbit about the Moon on January 11, 1998. This is the first NASA Moon mission in 25 years! Using this web site, you can find out whatever you need to know about this historic mission as well as follow Prospector in its incredible search for water ice on the lunar surface.

Mars Pathfinder Mission Home Page
Get the lastest news, Tracking, Objectives and Observation at this site.

Marshall Space Flight Center
The Marshall Center is one of NASA's largest centers, occupying 1,800 acres in Huntsville, Alabama. Its primary mission is to lead the Agency to develop and maintain space transportation and propulsion systems and conduct microgravity research.

Moomwalk With Me
Astronaut wanna-be's can get more of a feel for the job thanks to QTVR movies of the Apollo 16 and 17 moonwalks. NASA constructed from actual images gathered during those manned missions. There are also links to several more from the viewpoints of the space shuttle and Mir space station. For teachers, there's a detailed lesson plan for helping students design their own exploratory space mission to Mars. Rockets not included.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA's Origins Program
Origins goals -- searching out clues to fundamental questions about the universe and life itself -- will drive technology and science that will rewrite textbooks in physics, chemistry, biology, and quite possibly, history. The results could literally change the way humans think about the universe and their place in it. ...

NASA Planetary Rings Node
The Planetary Rings Node is devoted to archiving and distributing scientific data sets relevant to planetary ring systems.

NASA Mission Patches

NASA New & Information

NASA Releases First Version of Online Photo Database
A new online collection of NASA photographs and images provides a single point of entry to various photographic databases of six NASA centers. Includes search engine.

NASA Solar Data Analysis Center
The Solar Data Analysis Center is located at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland USA.

Photo Gallery

Researching NASA's Research
NASA has committed to the Web in a massive way. One of its new sites, maintained in Houston by the Lunar and Planetary Institute, focuses on our solar system. It's a good starting point if you need images, data, background or links. Most of the "Hot Topics" have appeared in mass media: craters on Venus and Ganymede, for instance, and exploration of Mars.

Shuttle Launch Countdown

NASA Spacelink An Aeronautics & Space Resource for Educators

NASA Space Shuttle Launches
From this site, you can access a variety of useful information about Shuttle launches from the Kennedy Space Center, including the Latest Shuttle Manifest and a list of future shuttle missions.

Solar System Simulator
Tired of looking at the planets from Earth? This offering from JPL and NASA allows you to view any planet as seen from any other planet. Gaze at Jupiter from Venus or Earth from Pluto, all without leaving your seat.

Today at NASA
Here you can find NASA news headlines, updates, press releases, photo and video galleries On-line

Wallops Flight Facility Mission
The Wallops Test Range Consists of a launch range, aeronautical research, airport associated tracking, data acquisition and control instrumentation systems.

Welcome to the Planets
This is a collection of many of the best images from NASA's planetary exploration program.