Space Education Web Sites

"To set foot on the soil of the asteroids, to lift by hand a rock from the Moon, to observe Mars from a distance of several tens of kilometers, to land on its satellite or even on its surface, what can be more fantastic? From the moment of using rocket devices, a new great era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament." (-Tsiolkovsky, 1896)

Space Agencies and Organizations

• RKA-The Russian Space Agency
• IKI-The Russian Space Research Institute
• Russia Space Science Internet
• Space Russia-Moscow State Aviation Institute's comprehensive web page on Russian Space activities.
• Friends and Partners in Space list of Russian Space Institutions
• The MIR Space Station
• The International Space Station Alpha
• NASA-The U.S. Space Agency
• CNES-The French Space Agency
• INPE-The Brazilian Space Agency
• NASDA-The Japanese Space Agency
• ESA-The European Space Agency
• ISU-The International Space University-an international, interdisciplinary university dedicated to the peaceful exploration of space. It's summer program's "Space and Society" department teaches the history of space, including the work of Tsiolkovsky.
• Try the Astrobiology Web's comprehensive list of national and international space organizations if you need more.
• The ASPIRE list of National Space Oganizations and Groups (SEDS, National Space Soc., The Planetary Soc., SSI, etc.)

Space Education Web Resources

• The NASA Space Educators Handbook "Thats one smalll click for Mankind".
• A Guide to Sources for Air and Space history; Primary Historical Collections in U.S. Repositories.-NASM
• The NASA Teacher Resource Network
• NASA's brief introduction to rockets
• The Air and Space Museum list of online resources
• AspireSpace Online Interactive Tutorial-Includes the Rocket Equation
• K-12 Math and Science on the Internet-From the Lawrence Hall of Science, Univ. of California at Berkeley
• Space Movie Archive Thousands of space films and videos
• The prehistory of space travel
• Excellent History of Space Exploration page, with links to Russian and U.S. web sites, grapihcs, etc.
• U.S. National Science Teachers Association
• The History of Space and Aeronautics
• Scout's Rocket Merit Badge
• See a Cuban stamp honoringTsiolkovsky, Jules Verne, and Sergey Korolev
• The U.S. Clementine CD-RM contains high resolution images of the Lunar crater named for Tsiolkovsky
• A short biography of Tsiolkovsky and other space pioneers
• Photo of the Moon Crater Tsiolkovsky
• Space Quotes