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Space Shuttle Columbia and Her Crew
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A site dedicated to the space shuttle Columbia, destroyed by mechanical failure on its descent over north central Texas on Feb. 1, 2003. Includes images and brief biographies of the seven lost crewmembers, highlights from Columbia's history, mission ...
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http://www.nasa.gov/columbia/ |
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Apollo 13, We Have a Solution
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This detailed 2005 article describes how saving the Apollo 13 spaceship, which was launched on April 11, 1970, and returned to earth on April 17, 1970, after a forced cancellation of its lunar mission, was the result of years of preparation, not a hu ...
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http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/apr05/2697 |
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Return to Flight
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Information about the "Return to Flight mission ... the 114th Space Shuttle flight, and the 31st flight of Discovery," which is due to launch in spring 2005. Includes a mission overview, crew interviews, an image and video gallery, informat ...
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http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/ |
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Pictures, Israel, Events: Space Flight
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A directory of links related to Colonel Ilan Ramon, an Israeli astronaut, who died when the Columbia Space Shuttle crashed on February 1, 2003. Includes links to official biographies, news articles, speculation about when Sabbath starts in space, and ...
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http://www.jr.co.il/pictures/israel/history/space.htm |
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Challenger Disaster 15th Anniversary [January 28, 2001]
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This site, created in 2001, provides a compilation of links to material about the Challenger space shuttle mission, which exploded during takeoff on January 28, 1986. Includes links to biographies of crewmembers, the Arlington National Cemetery memor ...
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http://govdocs.evergreen.edu/hotopics/challenger.html |
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Space Shuttle Mission Information: STS-123
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Background and updates about the space shuttle Endeavour mission STS-123 (launching in March 2008), which will "deliver the Japanese Kibo Logistics Module and the Canadian Dextre robotics system to the International Space Station." Provides ...
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts123/ |
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How Gyroscopes Work
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This site describes functioning and applications of the gyroscope, a spinning wheel on an axle. Gyroscopes are used for measuring or maintaining orientation and are "extremely important in everything from your bicycle to the advanced navigation ...
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http://science.howstuffworks.com/gyroscope.htm |
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Learn2 Understand How Airplanes Work
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"How can a 100-ton hunk of metal fly through the air as if it were weightless? Discover the nuts-and-bolts principles that make the miracle of flight possible."
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http://www.tutorials.com/07/0742/0742.asp |
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Space Shuttle: Shuttle Mission: STS-121
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Background and updates about this space shuttle mission that launched on July 4, 2006 with a primary purpose of testing shuttle safety improvements "to build on the findings from Discovery's flight last year." Includes fact sheets, status r ...
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts121/ |
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How Things Work
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Are you curious about how machines, computers, and other technologies around us work? Do you just have to know how water gets to the 100th floor of an apartment building? If you do, then this IPL pathfinder will help you find the print and Internet r ...
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http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48486 |
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