>
>Here is a list of on-line space history resources.
>You might find these sites useful.
>>
>>1) NASA Central Operation of Resources for Educators (CORE)
>>is the national distribution center for NASA-produced
>>multimedia educational materials. Its catalog is available
>>online at <http://spacelink.nasa.gov/CORE/>.
>>
>>2) NASA Histories On-Line
>><http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/on-line.html>
>>has the full text of various NASA publications.
>>
>>3) Space Educators' Handbook hypertext files
>><http://tommy.jsc.nasa.gov/~woodfill/SPACEED/SEHHTML/sehread.html>
>>has assorted documents related to education, including a file
on spinoffs.
>>
>>4) NASA Photo Resources include NASA Image eXchange
>><http://nix.nasa.gov/> and
Space Image Libraries
>><http://aesp.nasa.okstate.edu/image/welcome.html>.
>>
>>5) NASA Spinoff Online
>><http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/online.html>
and NASA Spinoff
>>Database <http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinselect.html>
>>provide access to huge amounts of information relating to
>>spinoff products from NASA research.
>>
>>6) Historical Archive
>><http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/history/history.html>
has various
>>documents relating to space history and NASA missions.
>>
>>7) The Quest Project <http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/>
has
>>sections, including resources for teachers, relating to the
>>Wright Flyer and Arctic Exploration, which have a bit of
>>history (the Arctic exploration site has some information
>>on the New Bedford whaling fleet of 1871).
>>
>>8) Sharing NASA <http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/interactive/>
is
>>NASA's interactive Internet project, with biographies,
>>on-line chats, lesson plans (scientific and mathematical,
>>not historical), etc.
>>
>>9) NASA's Sputnik site
>><http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/sputnik/>
has
>>many documents relating to Sputnik and the US reaction.
>>
>>10) The Kennedy Space Center Archives has begun putting
>>many documents online
>><http://www-lib.ksc.nasa.gov/lib/Archives/Electronic.html>.
>>
>>11) Good non-NASA sites:
>>
>>a) The National Air and Space Museum's Oral History on
>>Space, Science, and Technology
>><http://www.nasm.edu/NASMDOCS/DSH/ohp-introduction.html>.
>>
>>b) The National Air and Space Museum Archives Division
>><http://www.nasm.edu/NASMDOCS/ARCH/>
includes online
>>access to A Guide to Sources for Air and Space History:
>>Primary Historical Collections in United States
>>Repositories and sample photos from several photo
>>collections.
>
>________________________________
>Shelley Canright, Ph.D.
>m.d.canright@larc.nasa.gov
>
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