Explore the achievements of notable astronomers beginning with ancient times through modern space explorers.

Students explore the outermost planets of our solar system: Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. They also learn about characteristics of Pluto and its interactions with Neptune. Students learn a little about the history of space travel as well...

Learn about the life and accomplishments of Wernher Von Braun and other Nazi space scientists through this interactive timeline. Discover how he came to the United States in Operation Paperclip and why he is known as the father of the...

Commercial airlines took flight soon after the Wright brothers' famous first flights. Read about how the U.S. government encouraged the development of air travel.

Interactive timeline allows user to view the entire history of the Cassini Solstice Mission to Saturn due to be completed in 2017.

This companion website of a NOVA program that aired in 1999 features extensive information that focuses on moon research and includes a history of the Apollo missions as well as the science of the moon's origins.

Student groups explore scientific breakthroughs and the development of technologies that eventually led to asteroid discovery aboard the Dawn space mission. Learning module components include jigsaw reading, model building, math...

This competent site provides a brief history of Discovery, construction milestones associated with this space shuttle, and information related to upgrades and features.

The Museum of Flight collects and exhibits historically significant artifacts of air and space travel.

This NASA site offers a timeline of significant events in the space race during this brief frame of time, with some discussion of the prestige involved.

2021 is nearly history. Take a look back at a year that saw political turmoil, the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, an unusual Olympic Games, devastating natural disasters, advances in space exploration and more.

An introduction to our solar system: the planets, our Sun and our Moon. Students begin by learning the history and engineering of space travel. They make simple rockets to acquire a basic understanding Newton's third law of motion. They...

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.

"One Small Step, The Race To The Moon" is a clear presentation of the story of the Moon landing program that the United States conducted during the 1960's and early 1970's. After launching the presentation click on the phases of the Moon...

This site has links to information on each Space Shuttle mission with the missions grouped by year. Detailed information on each of the Shuttle is provided.

Do you have what it takes to go on a space mission to the Red Planet? Think you can handle it? Take this quiz to find out!

Browse through over 200 albums of more than 13,000 photographs taken of all of the Apollo space journeys. This project provides a visual history of the space race.

This site has links to many resources about Project Skylab. Detailed information, articles, videos, and images are available here.

Would you like to travel forward in time? Use this time travel kit to help you think through different ways to experience time travel. Click on the starred words to learn more about the topic.

This site offers a short history of the evolution of the space program and man's quest for more revealing and detailed pictures of the earth.

This site is provided for by Amazing Science. "NASA needs your help in planning a Hubble Servicing Mission. Join the team!"

Flip over this interactive OLogy card to find short overviews, fact-or-fiction questions, and similar bite-size bits of information about the nature of time, time travel, atomic clocks, and the general theory of relativity.

How did early maps show the mapmakers' perception of the known world? Early mapmakers used maps drawn from coastal explorations, land travels, and even information heard word of mouth from American Indians or from colonists or traders....

Do you have what it takes to drives a robot on Mars?