Some of the Best Space Websites
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 CSA's Youtube page listing astronaut Chris Hadfield's many interesing videos. |
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 Stream of NASA TV |
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Video direct from the space station. |
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Find out when it'll next fly over your house or school. Another one at spotthestation.nasa.gov. |
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Space website, good for finding when the ISS will pass over. Needs a login ID though. |
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Near realtime info on the Sun from the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory |
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Very up to date website with NASA info and info on astronaut sitings too |
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NASA and other National Space Agency Websites
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NASA Presskits, lots and lots of info on all things NASA! |
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NASA Humans In Space mainpage. Links to Shuttle section, ISS section and Constellation section (Constellation is the 'going back to the Moon' program name). |
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Main Kennedy Space Centre page, for shuttle info, launches, landings etc |
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Information & pictures of what each of the patches represent |
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NASA's set of Soloar System lithographs, check out page 2 each time as they contain loads of useful information and educational resource suggestions. |
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NASA's Planetary Data System page for information on the planets (fairly basic) |
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European HST website, lots of great resources |
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Space Mission Webpages
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The James Webb Space Telescope is to be Hubble's replacement after 2013. Take a look at its progress here. |
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Information explaining the gold disc aboard the Voyager probes containing a message to aliens. |
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NASA's STEREO Mission mainpage. |
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Other Space Related Websites
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Book a flight?! |
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Professor Stephen Hawking's website is very interesting, especially the glossary and the section written by him on his disability. |
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Space Education Websites
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Sun|Trek website, lots of classroom resources based on the Sun and the SOHO mission. |
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The Faulkes telescope website, now schools can signup for FREE sessions to use the telescopes. |
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The best, and free, Stellarium planetarium software for windows |
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Here's the mainpage for NASA Education.
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NASA Space Maths problems. Loads of great activities here.
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Here's the mainpage for NASA Space Place, another NASA education site.
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Comprehensive guide to mechanics behind spaceflight by NASA JPL. Includes questions, images and lots more besides.
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Some nice engineering projects to try with students.
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Excellent Moon Hoax Debunking site |
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Another great Moon Hoax Debunking site. Bad Astronomy mainpage. |
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All Others
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This museum, in Titusville, Florida has the largest & most concise collection of space memorabilia from the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo & STS era's that I've ever seen. Very well worth a visit whilst you're on the Space Coast. |
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Nice general space-info education website |
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Wikipedia pages with fastfacts on:
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Space Shuttle info. This is the parent page with lots more links . |
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Link to loads of short space videos to download.
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