Pictures and descriptions of the robot spacecraft that have explored the planets and outer space since the 1960s.

This site provides information about the Deep Space 1 mission.

A great interactive that depicts the new additions that were made on the space shuttle after the Columbia disaster.

Images and diagrams of the Sun, solar phenomena such as sunspots and flares, space weather, Earth's magnetosphere and upper atmosphere, the aurora, and more.

In October 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite. The 184-pound, 22.5-inch sphere orbited the earth once every 96 minutes. Sputnik transmitted radio signals for 21 days and later burned up in...

Learn how astronauts on the International Space Station are learning to grow their own food in space in order to have fresh vegetables to eat. Includes video.

This site provides information about the Hubble Space Telescope, and its mission into space.

NASA-sponsored coverage and research on a range of topics related to space exploration -- flying weather stations, comets, first steps on the Moon, and other space-related topics -- are presented in age-appropriate activities, lesson...

This MathWorld site shows pictures of polyhedra which can fill space. A discussion of these figures follows.

NOAA has produced a series of topic papers for use by teachers and students. This paper is on the increase of radio wave activity and the effects solar emissions have on it. PDF format.

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 is a standards-based program follows that provides content on what astronauts eat, how bodies change in space, and how imagination would help you to become a space explorer. Teacher and student educational resources, glossary, books...

The Why Files have provided an article that explores the health effects of space travel. The site focuses on life on a space station.

Design and test your own all-terrain space rover with this app.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers the Multiplication Rule for dependent events.

In this activity, students will find and compare function rules for a given pattern. They also evaluate variable expressions.

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the explosion of the Challenger, PBS provides an article that describes the repercussions of the disaster.

This interactive game is available for free download. Players are meant to be together in the same vicinity. In the game, players explore the International Space Station and leave it to take a walk in space.

A collection of high-resolution images of space. Images "showcase the discoveries and excitement of planetary exploration, with a focus on the origin and evolution of the Solar System and the search for life".

From February 2003, a Q&A discussing damaged tiles and other problems that the Space Shuttle Columbia faced during its re-entry and subsequent explosion.

This amazing photo shows a volcanic eruption as seen from space. A giant plume of smoke bellows out from the ice capped volcanic crater.

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.