Space & Flight in the News

Links

• NASA www.nasa.gov

  Find information on NASA’s myriad research, exploration, and engineering projects.

• Space.com www.space.com

  Read breaking news stories on space-related science and technology.

• The Planetary Society planetary.org

  Check out the latest news about space exploration.

• SETI Institute www.seti.org

  Are we alone in the universe? Learn about SETI’s efforts to answer this question.

• Federal Aviation Administration www.faa.gov

  Explore the inner workings of America’s authority on aviation safety.

• The Wright Brothers www.nasm.si.edu/wrightbrothers/index_full.cfm

  Discover how Orville and Wilbur ushered in the age of modern aircraft at this site from the Smithsonian Institution.

• Virtual Skies virtualskies.arc.nasa.gov/index.html

  Take an in-depth look at aviation technology and air traffic management on this NASA website.

• Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association www.aopa.org

  Find flight-training resources, read accident analyses, browse flight-related articles, and more.

Books

• Cosmos

  by Carl Sagan

• The Universe in a Nutshell

  by Stephen Hawking

• Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic History

  by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith

• Far Out: A Space-Time Chronicle

  by Michael Benson

• Orbit

  by Jay Apt

• Distant Worlds: Milestones in Planetary Exploration

  by Peter Bond

• A Passion for Mars: Intrepid Explorers of the Red Planet

  by Andrew Chaikin

• Are We Alone? The Philosophical Implications of the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life

  by Paul Davies

• Aviation: The Early Years

  by Peter Almond

• Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight

  by Paul Hoffman

• The Wright Brothers and The Invention of the Aerial Age

  by Tom D. Crouch and Peter L. Jakab

• The Art of Flying

  by Robert N. Buck

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