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• - As Challenger left Cape Canaveral, with the first teacher to travel in space onboard, the shuttle's flight was doomed. Examine official pictures and reports from NASA to understand what happened.
  
• - Official NASA site with news and information about the space shuttles, the space station, the Mars flight, and history and picture gallery.
  
• - Current coverage of the International Space Station from CNN. Includes links to a detailed diagram and a 3D VRML model of the station. Also has a schedule for assembling station components and a tour of the mission control center.
  
• - Essentials of spacecraft and missions presented by a group of teens for the Thinkquest competition. Talks about the history of space travel, the technology involved, and the dangers. In English and Portuguese.
  
• - Boeing Company site which has information, mission history, image archive, construction information, and a site map and data archive.
  
• - Your source for NASA space flight simulations. Launch the Space Shuttle. Dock with the International Space Station.
  
• - Learn about the history of food in space, the space shuttle food system, the shuttle's menu, and get an insight into the science of space nutrition.
  
• - Traces the history of flight, from 15th century gliders to the modern space era. A Thinkquest Junior site.
  
• - Play games that will teach you about space flight or read about what it's like living and working in space or how to become an astronaut.
  
• - Presents information and photographs along the United States Air Force path to space technology.
  
• - Provides news relating to space flight.
  
• - Examine video animations plus official NASA pictures and documents to learn Columbia's story from first flight to tragic end.
  
• - Living in space is a great adventure. In science fiction, the space heroes rarely have to take out the trash or clean the kitchen, but real-life astronauts have chores they have to do on the Station.
  
• - Thinkquest site explores skylabs, discusses satellite and shuttle operations, profiles astronauts and considers the future of space travel. In English and Spanish.
  
• - Provides computer games, news, polls, pictures, and downloads about the space station.