Explore:

	The Sun	The Solar System
	Mercury	Venus	Earth
	Mars	Jupiter	Saturn
	Uranus	Neptune	Pluto
	Moons	Asteroids	Comets

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Discover:

   Test Prep Kit

   The American Shuttle Fleet

   Crunch Digits

   The Hubble Is Not Alone

   The Beauty of Hubble

   ESA's Jules Verne Cargo Tug

   America Returns to the Moon

   The Sun-Earth Connection

   Now There Are Only Eight

   The Mountains of Creation

   Coming Human flights to Mars

      

   Japan's Falcon at Itokawa

   Found! The Tenth Planet

   The Voyagers At the Edge

   Deep Impact Shoots a Comet

   Galaxy Crossing Space Sails

   MESSENGER to Mercury

   Aura Aqua Terra The A Train

      

   Cassini Arrives at Saturn

   Swift Hunts Gamma-Ray Bursts

   MTO to relay Martian Internet

   Genesis Buries Stardust in Utah

   Jupiter Icy Moon Orbiter

   SMART-1 Mapping the Moon

   Safe return home for Stardust

      

   Mars, Mercury, Comets, Sun
       The Discovery Probes

   Coming Soon Iran in Space

   European Astronomy Sats

   Rovers Drive Across Mars

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Learn:

   Final Report Columbia Tragedy

   Testing Einstein's Theory

   Telescope 400th Anniversary

	Human Spaceflight:
		Gagarin to Melvill
		Endurance Records
		Native American
		Record Number of Flights
		Space Tourists
		Space Treks
		Crew Transport
		Private Spaceflight
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   Sun Crossing Venus Transit

   Data Mining Virtual Observatory

   Largest Infrared Telescope

   Hubble Snags Space Bug

   Asteroid Will Miss Earth

   Spending Money for Space

   Are Black Holes Fuzzballs?

   China's Second Manned Flight

      

   On Pluto A Warm Winter!

   On Neptune It's Springtime!

   Huge Antarctic Ozone Hole

   Satellite Portrait Mt. Everest

   Iraq Afghan Satellite Wars

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Imagine:

   Milky Way Planet Hunters

   Future Space Rockets
       21st Century Visions

      

   Russian Dogs Animals in Space

   Dark Mysteries Sedna, Quaoar

   Are Comets SARS Source?

   Jupiter's Amazing 61 Moons

   What the heck is a Magnetar?

   Atlantis of the Sands Ubar

   Swords Into Plowshares

   Satellite Tracking of
       Endangered Animals

   Network Talking in Deep Space

      

   Everywhere Water Water

   Hearing Radio From Jupiter

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Understand:

   Black Hole Farthest Away

   Earth Ancient Astronomy

   Space How High Is It?

   The Extraordinary History of
       Amateur Radio Satellites

      

   New American Space Rockets

   300 Flights Delta  Proton

   Search for Meteorites

   American Weather Satellites

      

   Tuning the Energy Spectrum

   Sunspot Cycle Solar Maximum

   Close Call Rock Buzzes Earth

   Pioneering Americans Lived
       Aboard Mir Space Station

   Space Station Astronauts
       Chat with School Students

Find the best astronomy telescopes

Coming Departures:
Schedules:
   Worldwide Launch Schedule
   NASA's Schedule
   NASA's Missions
   Europe's Schedule
   China's Schedule
   Solar System Probes
   Shuttle Fleet Final Flights
Enroute:
   Rosetta Europe's comet lander
       due at comet in 2014
   New Horizons Pluto probe
       due at Pluto in June 2015
Arrivals:
   Mars Science Laboratory
       Curiosity rover landed 2012
   MESSENGER orbiter
       flew by Venus 2006 & 2007
       fly-by Mercury 2008 & 2009
       in Mercury orbit 2011
   China's Chang'e 2 moon probe
   Venus Express European probe
   CALIPSO/CloudSat Earth sats
   Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
   Stardust sample brought to Earth
   Deep Impact comet impactor
   SMART-1 orbits the Moon
   Genesis returns to Earth
   Cassini at Saturn
   Rovers on Mars
   Mars Express orbits Mars
   A-Train Earth observing sats
   SSETI Express hamsat
   PCsat 2 hamsat
   VuSat hamsat
   Echo hamsat
   Progress ISS freighters
   Soyuz ISS crew transports

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Space Shuttles:
  History of the Shuttle Fleet
  Shuttle Fleet Final Flights
  Schedule Details
  Jules Verne Cargo Tug
  Return to Space
  Columbia Tragedy
  2002 Highlights
  6,000 Flags & 9-11
  Past Flights
  Watch a launch

  
  Columbia Tragedy
   "The Journey Will Continue"

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Solar System:
  A Quick Tour
  The Mystery Planetoid
  Now There Are Eight Planets

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Current Planet Probes:
	Sun:	Genesis
		Stereo
		Ulysses
	Mercury:	Messenger
		BepiColombo
	Venus:	Express
		Planet-C
	Earth:	Terra Aqua Aura
	Moon:	Smart-1
		Lunar-A
		Selene
		Chang'e
		Chandrayan
	Mars:	Rovers
		Curiosity
		Express
		Nozomi
		Netlander
		Odyssey
		Surveyor
	Asteroid:	Muses-C
		Dawn
	Jupiter:	Galileo
	Saturn:	Cassini
	Pluto:	New Horizons
	Comet:	Stardust
		Deep Impact
		Rosetta
	Beyond:	Voyagers
		Pioneers
		Quaoar
	Timeline
	America plans Human Flights to the Moon and Mars
	Space explorations by year

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Saturn Cassini News:

  

   Surveying the System
   Best Equipped Ever
   Moons and Rings

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Mars Rover News:

  

   Curiosity
   Driving Across Mars
   Rock Gallery
   Was There Ever Water?
   Mars Travels Near Earth
 

 

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Space & Astronomy in Review:

NASA:
2009    2008    2007
2006    2005    2004
Others:
2008    2007    2004    2003
2002    2001    2000    1999
1998    1997    1996    Today
Most Space Spending    NASA's Vision Top Space/Astronomy News:    2008    2007    2002    2001    2000    1999    Earlier Top Ten Astronomy Pix:     2009     2008    2007    2006 20th Century:     Top Space Stories     Top Space Scientists

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History:
  American Spaceflight 50th Anniv
  Human Spaceflight 50th Anniv
  Sputnik 50th Anniversary
  Apollo 40th Anniversary
  Explorer 50th Anniversary
  From Gagarin to Melvill
  The Millennium
  Human Firsts
  Space Factoids
  Acronyms
  Apollo Moon
  Endurance Records
  Space Women

  

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Human Spaceflights:
	America	China
	Russia	Europe
	Japan	India
	Canada	Others

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Astronauts:
   Astronauts
   Cosmonauts
   Yuhangyuans
   First in Space
   Most Trips
   Tourists
   Record Trips
   Teachers
   Native American
   Eating   Sleeping
   Heavenly Marriage
   Most Time in Space
   Private Astronauts

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Spacefaring Nations:
	China	India
	Japan	Europe
	America	Russia

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SatBytes:
	Lost Tidbits
	Forgotten Stories
	Satellite Lookup
	GPS Sats	War Sats
	Hamsats	Suitsat
	Hand Launched Sats
	European Satellites
	Tracking Sats
	Astronomy Sats
	Mt. Everest at 50
	Iran in Space?
	Sputnik 50th Anniversary
	Explorer 50th Anniversary
	Maintenance Satellites
	Dawn of the Space Age

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Rockets:
   Spaceports
   Plowshares
   21st Century
   Experimental
   Europe's Vega
   Brazil's Difficulties
   U.S. Delta 4, Atlas 5
   America's 300th Delta
   Russia's 300th Proton
   Spaceflight Museum

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Space Station:
   Jules Verne Cargo Tug
   Construction
   Fifth Year
   Third Anniversary
   Current Crew
   Lift Schedule
   Virtual World

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Altitude Chart:
   How high is up?
   Where does space begin?

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Area 71:
   Intelligence Assets

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Space Scrapbook:

	Dogs	SARS
	Women	Record
	Students	Teachers
	Plowshares	Tragedy
	Change	Spectrum

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Earth Observation:

	Aqua	Aura
	Terra	CloudSat
	Calipso	Parasol

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Global Positioning:

	Europe Galileo GPS
	Russia GLONASS GPS
	U.S. NAVSTAR GPS

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Occurrences:
   Significant Episodes

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Virtual Worlds:
  Virtual Worlds
  Photo Tour
  Int'l Space Station
  Int'l Spaceflight Museum
  NASA in Second Life
  NOAA in Second Life
  STO's The Space Place
  Space Sites in Second Life
  Stone's Point Park

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Science Fiction:
  Science Fiction News
  Star Trek 2009

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Who:
	Scott	Herrington
	Ross	Tereshkova
	Melvill	Gagarin
	Kepler	Bluford
	Morgan	Husband
	Jemison	Tito
	Krikalev	Morin
	Crawford	Avdeyev
	Anderson	Sharman
	Clark	Chang-Diaz
	Shuttleworth	Voss
	Brown	Armstrong
	Chawla	Thomas
	Malenchenko	Ride
	Resnik	McCool
	Garver	Ramon
	Bass	Linnehan
	Binnie	Bursch
	Olsen	Glenn
	Walz	McAuliffe
	Helms	Blaha
	Foale	Lucid
	Linenger	Thagard
	Wolf	Collins
	Thornton	Fisher
	Sullivan	Kondakova
	Helms	Whitson
	Savitskaya	Schirra
	Chernyshov	Sevastyanov
	Schirra	Slayton
	Grissom	Cooper
	Reiter	Shepard
	Titov	Kennedy
	Carpenter	Lindsey

  

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AP Space Histories
   The Race to the Moon
   International Space Station Tour
   The Hubble Space Telescope
      Hubble Repair Mission
      Images from Repaired Hubble
   Phoenix Landing on Mars
   Lunar Rover Testing
   Lunar Eclipse Around the World

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Google Space News
   Astronomy
   Deep Space
   Solar System
   Space
   NASA
   Space Shuttles
   Space Station

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CNN 100 Story Roundups
   NASA
   Astronomy
   Space Shuttles
   Mars Exploration
   Space Technology
   Manned Space Flight
   Unmanned Exploration
  +
   Space Spotlight Photos
   Planet in Peril
   Edge of Discovery

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Time Magazine
   Space and Astronomy

STO:
   Search STO
   STO Video Movies
   Research Resources
   What's New?
   About STO
   STO Poll
   STO's The Space Place

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Question Box:
   Read & Ask

      
       Moon Buggy?

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Teachers:
   Inspiring Resources
   Lesson Plans
   Book Reviews
   Tutorials
   Teacher in Space
   Terminology
   Research Resources
   Mars in Middle School
   Accessible Universe

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Space Weather:
   Current Space Weather
   Current Propagation
   NOAA SEC Today
   Today's Sun Image
   Sun Earth Connection
   Sunspot Cycle
   Solar Maximum
   NOAA   SOHO   SWC
   Earth Weather
   Antarctic Ozone Hole
   Radiation Belts
   Earth Observing System
   U.S. Weather Satellites
   Natural Disaster Resources

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Time:
   FAQ
   Universal
   Lightyears

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Calculators:
   astronomy
   astrophysics

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Space Calendars:
   NASA JPL
   Kennedy Space Center
   Vandenberg AFB
   Europe    Japan
   Back in the day

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Deep
Space
Astronomy:

   Grains of Sand on a Beach
   Messier and Other Objects
   Hunting Planets
       Along the Milky Way
   Water Water Everywhere
   Tracing Ancient Astronomy
   Mysteries of Deep Space
   Puzzling Gamma Bursts
   Lucy in the Sky is a Diamond

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Great Observatories:
   The telescope:
     400th Anniversary
   Hubble     Chandra
   Spitzer     Compton
   stories »
   new pictures:

Chandra	Hubble
Spitzer	Compton

   See Hubble's Beauty »
   Hubble Is Not Alone »

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Stargazing:
   Planet Hunters
   

   Telescopes
   
   Hubble: Changed Universe
   New: Virtual Observatory
   Neptunians discovered
   Oldest U.S. Observatory
   WorldWide Telescope
   Space Spotlight

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Electromagnetic:
   Spectrum
   Spectrometers
   Radioastronomy
   Radio JOVE

   
   What is that?

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Whereabouts:
	Meridiani	Isidis
	Meteora	Churchill
	Gusev	Wild
	Jiuquan	Baikonur
	Tanegashima	Kourou
	Sriharikota	Alcantara
	Canaveral	Vandenberg
	Kodiak	Cleveland
	Andoya	Mawson
	Palmachim	Okeanos
	Barents Sea	Woomera
	Rub al Khali	Phnom Penh
	Goldstone	Angkor
	Barringer	Xichang
	Nacogdoches	Ubar
	Plesetsk	Osceola
	Syowa	Alcantara
	Callao	Ellijay
	Cheshire	Samarkand
	Sudbury	Ganymede
	Tranquility	Saratov
	Peenemuende	Mojave
	Marambio	Kebira
	Callisto	Vernadsky
	Mauna Kea	Canberra
	Stonehenge	Cardiff

  

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