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Links to general space related sites.
The Concord Has Landed
Huntsville greets the Concord's first visit to Alabama with enthusiasm.
How To Become an Astronaut
There's no particular path to becoming an astronaut, but these guidelines will help you succeed.
Space
About.com site for everything on space with netlinks, weekly features, newsletter, bulletin board, and live chats.
Mars Polar Lander
Read this feature from Mark Feletti, your About.com guide to Space, for more details on this NASA project.
NASA Publicity and Mars Polar Lander
Read feature from About.com guide to Composite Materials, Barry Berenberg, on NASA's new better, faster, cheaper philosophy.
Satellite/Aeorspace Industry
Features and netlinks from About.com guide, Andriy Zhalko-Tytarenko, Ph.D., who is an expert in international space launch industry and in aerospace industry at large.
Air & Space Smithsonian Magazine
Articles online, back issues, museum features, SpaceBeat, web market, and subscription information.
How To Become an Astronaut
Lt. Col. Cady Coleman talks with Science@NASA about what it's like to be an astronaut and how a passion for high school chemistry led her to become one.
Hubble Space Telescope
A cooperative program of the European Space Agency and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to operate a long-lived space-based observatory.
National Air and Space Museum
The Smithsonian Institution's NASM maintains the largest collection of historic air and spacecraft in the world
National Science Foundation
Program areas include engineering, biology, geosciences, math and physical sciences, polar research, science statistics, and social behavioral sciences.
Office of Space Flight
To find out what is currently planned in the space program, check here.
Spaceport
Ask real astronauts your questions, hear about their space adventures, and discover how to become one yourself.
Science Magazine
Published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Includes current issue, science careers, search, back issues, and subject collections.
Scientific American
Includes present and past issues, search engine, exhibits, feature articles, ask the experts, interviews, and job openings.
Space.com
Find out what's in the news, on TV and in books on space, plus message boards and chats.
Space Link
NASA's website for Educators and their students features a library, hot topics, cool picks, a search engine, curriculum, and a mailing list.
Space Science News
NASA site is sponsored by the Science Directorate at Marshall Space Flight Center with research areas that include astrophysics, microgravity, and Earth science.
Space Shuttle Launch
Schedule for all space shuttle launches.
Space Station
Read about Wernher von Braun's 1952 concept on the Space Station. NASA site contains photos of the von Braun and his early station station.

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