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Achieving the Goals--Goal 5 - First in the World in Math and Science Technology Resources - November 1996

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

World Wide Web: www.nasa.gov/

Links to NASA news, subjects of public interest, NASA strategic plan and other NASA strategies, policies and public affairs information, NASA online educational resources and NASA information sources by subject. Additional links to NASA-wide programs, NASA commercial technology and other aerospace resources. Information on NASA centers located in the United States via map.


NASA Ames Research Center

World Wide Web: www.arc.nasa.gov/

Links to the wind tunnel complex, NASA-wide programs and activities at Ames, CA, general Ames information, information by organization and a personnel search feature.


NASA Center for Aerospace Information

World Wide Web: www.sti.nasa.gov/

Links to the NASA Center for Aerospace information, current aerospace notices, STI program working groups and keyword search of the NASA RECON 1990-1994 abstracts.


NASA Center for Computational Sciences

World Wide Web: http://webserv.gsfc.nasa.gov/scb-public/nccs.welcome.html

Links to the high-performance scientific computer facility at Goddard Space Flight Center. Provides computing resources and support services for scientific research.


NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

World Wide Web: www.dfrc.nasa.gov/

Links to educational programs; the offices of External Affairs and Procurement; flight research projects and various research facilities, such as the Thermo-structural Laboratory, Western Aeronautical Test Range and the Flow Visualization Facility.


NASA Earth Observing System

World Wide Web: www.eos.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Discover, retrieve and display documents and data about the Earth Observing System. Information on EOS issues and access to the Payload Panel Report. Additional resources to be added include Algorithm Theoretical Basis Documents, the EOS Reference Handbook, the EOS Directory, images from various satellites and airborne instruments, and cross- references to other EOS-related information servers on the Internet.


NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

World Wide Web: pao.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Central guide for many NASA projects and services. The NASA Information by Subject section connects to servers by subject category. The map links to the homepages of NASA centers and servers of other national and international space agencies. Also includes a personnel locator, which finds addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses for NASA staff; and a public affairs section that provides access to satellite images and information about space shuttle missions and astronauts. Gopher servers, including the Network Applications Information Center, scientific and technical information, Computer Software Management Information Center, and information on small shuttle payloads.


NASA Headquarters

World Wide Web: www.hq.nasa.gov/

Includes information on the Space Physics Division, travel rates, the NASA Commercial Technology Network and Spacecraft and Remote Sensing Technology. Link to an experimental Web server, provided by Mission to Planet Earth. Site also includes pointers to NASA budget information.


NASA High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center

World Wide Web: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Links to relevant databases, generally requiring specific software packages.


NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

World Wide Web: www.jpl.nasa.gov/

Links to news releases and flashes, online tours, image and information archives and technical organizations. This is also the site with the most comprehensive information about comet activity.


NASA Johnson Space Center

World Wide Web: www.jsc.nasa.gov/

Links to a bulletin board, job and contract opportunities, and the homepages of several contractors.


NASA K-12 National Research and Education Network

World Wide Web: quest.arc.nasa.gov/

Materials aimed at elementary, middle and high school and community college teachers. Information includes science lesson plans and curricular guides; guides to Internet science sources; and database, image and text files to support special NASA education projects.


NASA Kennedy Space Center

World Wide Web: www.ksc.nasa.gov/ksc.html

NASA Gopher: , Web and telnet sites are organized by center and project under Additional NASA Services section. The historical archive section provides comprehensive information about past space missions, listed by project name and mission number; shuttle missions; planetary probes and upcoming missions. This site gives access to images transmitted from space, lists of mission objectives and accomplishments, and biological data about crew members. The FAQ section includes shuttle mission schedules, an article about how to become an astronaut and instructions for obtaining a launch pass.


NASA Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics

World Wide Web: ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Links to internal terrestrial physics lab information, including newsletters and events.


NASA Langley Research Center

World Wide Web: mosaic.larc.nasa.gov/larc.html

Links to LaRC-sponsored conferences, workshops and symposia; find LaRC personnel and the LaRC cafeteria menu. Additional links to Langley Technology Access Services, including the Technology Experts Locator Service, the Langley Technical Report Server and the Technology Applications Group.


NASA Liftoff to Space Exploration

World Wide Web: liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/

Information on Astro-2 experiments and discoveries. Read the Astro-2 log and find out about the shuttle flight crew. View stars, galaxies, planets and quasars in ultraviolet light.


NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

www.msfc.nasa.gov/

General information on the Marshall Space Flight Center, including a list of projects, such as Spacelab.


NASA Network Information Center

World Wide Web: www.nasa.gov/

Network resources relevant to users of NASA information.


NASA Shuttle Mission

World Wide Web: www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/

Links to experiments on the second flight of the sixth space shuttle mission, Columbia. Information on the Microgravity Laboratory, which will be used to investigate the near-weightless environment on Columbia and how it affects fluids, combustion, material structures and protein crystals, and to demonstrate technology needed to further microgravity research on the shuttle and the International Space Station. Also, information on the countdown, launch, orbit, landing, crew, photos and press releases.


NASA Space Calendar

World Wide Web: www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/

Lists dates of scheduled launches, anniversaries of important space missions, birthdays of important astronomers, and astronomical highlights, such as eclipses and asteroid flybys. Also, links to information on many launches, past space missions and biographies of astronomers.


NASA John C. Stennis Space Center

World Wide Web: www.ssc.nasa.gov/

Instructions for doing business with Stennis Space Center and information on operational propulsion programs, remote sensing and the center's economic impact on the Hancock, County, MS, region.


NASA Telnet Services

World Wide Web: www.sti.nasa.gov/

NASA sites that permit telnet access, including the Compton Gamma Ray observatory, the Lunar and Planetary Institute, the NASA Extragalactic Database System, Planetary Data Systems, and NASA SPACELINK.


NASA Welcome to Planets

World Wide Web: pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/

NASA images of each of the planets in this solar system and brief statistical information on each planet. Click on the image of a particular planet and receive summary information about the planet and selected images.


NASA World Wide Web: Servers

World Wide Web: www.sti.nasa.gov/

Links to NASA World Wide Web: Servers, organized by center and project. Some links include Web serv-ers for Library X, Mechanical Design and Analysis, F-16XL High Lift Flight Experiments, Advanced Vehicles Division, NASA Langley HPCC K-12 home-page, Planetary Data System and the STELAR Project.


National Center for Atmospheric Research

World Wide Web: www.ucar.edu/

Climate, global dynamics and other atmospheric information from federally funded research organizations. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation.


National Center for Supercomputing Applications

World Wide Web: www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/

Links to a university-based computer facility and research center designed to serve the national computational science and engineering community.
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