Learn about the types of food that astronauts must eat while in space and how that food is prepared for space travel.

Get the facts on Venus. Resource offers a variety of satellite images and facts about the structure and features of Venus.

The David Clark Company outlines the history of their "Crew Protective Equipment". Good images and information on their suits is available here. Information is available on the following equipment.Anti-G Suits used by allied fighter...

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.

A special anniversary site for the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. Complete with comments from the astronauts, galleries with many images related to the mission, and much more.

The official transcription of John Glenn's in-flight communication with Mission Control during his orbit around the earth in 1962.

Students groups act as aerospace engineering teams competing to create linear equations to guide space shuttles safely through obstacles generated by a modeling game in level-based rounds. Each round provides a different configuration of...

This site, which is provided for by the German Aerospace Center, contains detailed information on missions to Mir from March '92 to March '97 displayed in the links below.

Describes the use of alloys on the space shuttle, and how to analyze alloys using X-ray fluorescence.

If you look up at the sky on a clear night, you may see a red dot among the stars. This dot is Mars, named in ancient times after the Roman god of war. Although no one has ever visited this red planet, we know a lot about it. This site...

A description of the Voskhod spacecraft along with a listing of the Voskhod flights that occurred and ones that were cancelled.

Read the article or listen to the story of remembrances of the Apollo program, especially Apollo 11. Explains some of the challenges of sending astronauts to Mars.

From ABC News in Science, this article explores findings related to the "double-eye vortex" discovered hovering above Venus' south pole.