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1. How To Become A Navy Fighter Pilot Not just anyone has the right disposition to become a fighter pilot. Read this short job description to discover if the high flying job will interest you. If you enjoy pushing the limit but have resigned yourself to a career that lacks the super-char...
2. The Moon Landing Conspiracy Theory For some time now moon landing conspiracy theory supporters claim that the moon landing never really took place, but was actually produced by clever movie makers! The moon landing conspiracy theory revolves around a few key issues, mainly footage an...
3. Space? Space Shuttle? Space Station? Space Science! July 20, 2009 is the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moonlanding. Here's another Site that Discusses the 1969 Moonlanding Observations from space can help us understand our planet's dilemma with climate change, global warming, environmental polluti...
4. Neil Armstrong Neil Armstrong is the first person to have set foot on the Moon.
5. Kalpana Chawla Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian-American woman in space and the first Indian-American to fly the space shuttle. She was one of seven astronauts killed in 2003 when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere.
6. First Watches in Space.     A short article about the first timekeepers in space.
7. Letter from Neil Armstrong, NASA, Man on the Moon NOTE: It's hard to believe that I stood outside the screened-in area of a camper with many others while working at summer camp one warm summer night 40 years ago this month (July,2009) watching the grainy black and white images of man walking on the...
8. Space Exploration Fun Facts Mankind has dreamed of space travel for centuries. Our quest to reach outer space has resulted in not only some interesting stories but some useful technology as well.
9. When I Grow Up The first career I took interest in, at the ripe age of two, was to be an airplane pilot. However, sometime between the age of two and adulthood my fear of heights took over, and I lost interest in that initial goal. Most of us went through several d...
10. Don Knotts Better known as 'Barney Fife' from the TV show Andy Griffith, Don Knotts was a great comedian and his movies are classics that will never go out of style.  My favorites are The Ghost and Mr. Chicken and The Apple Dumpling Gang (both highly recom...
11. NASA Images Many people don't know that, as a government agency, most of the media produced by NASA is in the public domain. For people interested in Space Exploration, Astrophysics, Astronomy, Rocket Science, and Satellite Technology the wealth of images produc...
12. Buzz Aldrin Buzz Aldrin is a former NASA astronaut who was the pilot of Apollo 11, the first lunar module to land on the moon, and he was the second man to ever set foot on the moon. Prior to joining NASA, he was an Air Force pilot who flew combat missions in th...
13. John Glenn John Glenn is an American astronaut. He is the first American man to orbit the earth.
14. Apollo Moon Shot Collectables The first human stepped foot on the moon in July 1969. Since then, only 12 men have walked on the moon's surface in a hectic several years and we haven't been back in more than 30 years. Collecting memorabilia from the Apollo missions has become a ve...
15. Do you have a dream vacation? Here's mine. Just about everyone has a dream vacation destination. Mine is outer space. Seeing earth from space is on my list of 10 things to do before I die. But, space travel ticket prices are out of this world! How on earth can a common Joe (or in my case, Joe...
16. The Space Age: The Challenges and the Possibilites Growing up in the 1970's, I was obsessed from a very early age with the concepts of outer space and inter-planetary travel. I have no doubt whatsoever that this was largely due to my favourite TV programme being "Star Trek" - already at that time bei...
17. Planet Earth Pictures of the Earth from far away
18. Douglas H Wheelock Colonel Douglas H Wheelock has bravely taken the Wheelock name further than anyone else in history when he took part in the Space Shuttle flight STS-120 in October/November 2007. Discover the background to an amazing spaceman. The official NASA Biog...