Selected Internet Resources -- Aeronautics and Astronautics

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Aerofiles: a century of American aviation
   URL: http://www.aerofiles.com/
   Aerofiles is a comprehensive, non-commercial, free-access web site dedicated to the aviation history of North America and the airplanes that have graced its skies for 100 years.

Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP)
   URL: http://www.dtic.mil/search97doc/aulimp/main.htm
   The Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals is a subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals. The Index contains citations since 1988 and is updated continuously.

Aviation Sites
   URL:http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/aircraft.html
   Includes sections on aviation databases, aircraft manufacturers, specific aircraft types, missiles and rockets, aircraft engines, aviation periodicals, military bases, aviation publications, aviation links, government links, aircraft photographs, individual homepages, how to find relatives and friends who served, veteran links, aircraft museums, and squadron and group web sites.

Evolution of flight.
   URL:http://www.flight100.org/
   In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of flight, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics launched the Evolution of Flight.

Goddard Institute for Space Studies
   URL: http://www.giss.nasa.gov
   The Goddard Institute for Space Studies is a division of Goddard Space Flight Center's Earth Sciences Directorate. It was established in 1961 to do basic research in space and earth sciences in support of Goddard programs. GISS works cooperatively with area universities and research organizations.

Great Images in NASA (GRIN)
   URL: http://grin.hq.nasa.gov
   Provided by NASA, this site catalogs over 1,000 high-quality photos related to space and space exploration. The collection may be browsed by subject or center or keyword-searched. The images are offered as thumbnails with three resolution options and text descriptions. There are some really neat images here, and the site is well worth a visit.

Johnson Space Center
   URL: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov
   The Johnson Space Center, located in Houston, Texas, is the host center for the Space Station Program Office, and manages the development and operation of the space shuttle, a manned space transportation system developed for the United States by NASA.

Kennedy Space Center
   URL: http://www.ksc.nasa.gov
   The Kennedy Space Center designs, constructs, operates, and maintains space vehicle facilities and ground support equipment for launch and recovery operations.

Marshall Space Flight Center
   URL: http://www.msfc.nasa.gov
   The Marshall Center is one of NASA's largest centers, occupying 1,800 acres in Huntsville, Alabama. Its primary mission is to lead the Agency to develop and maintain space transportation and propulsion systems and conduct microgravity research.

NASA Ames Research Center
   URL: http://www.arc.nasa.gov
   In contributing to NASA, the Ames mission is to research, develop, and transfer leading edge aeronautical technologies through the unique integration of computation, simulation, ground and flight experimentation, and information sciences; answer fundamental questions concerning evolution ranging from astronomical and planetary environments to life, the adaptation of living systems to space, and the health of our planet and develop technologies for space flight; design, develop and deliver integrated information systems technologies and applications, enabling revolutionary advances in aeronautics and space.

NASA Glenn Research Center
   URL: http://www.lerc.nasa.gov
   The NASA Glenn Research Center defines and develops advanced technology for high priority national needs. The work of the Center is directed toward new propulsion, power, and communications technologies for application to aeronautics and space. The Center has been designated as the NASA Lead Center for Aeropropulsion. It is NASA's Center of Excellence in turbomachinery. It also leads NASA's research in the microgravity science disciples of fluid physics, combustion science, and some materials science.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
   URL: http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov
   The mission of the Goddard Space Flight Center is to expand knowledge of the earth and its environment, the solar system and universe through observations from space.

NASA Headquarters
   URL: http://www.hq.nasa.gov
   As the nexus of NASA's major aeronautical and space programs, NASA Headquarters is the voice of the Agency. Through sound agency management, integral functional/staff offices, and a vigorous enterprise management, NASA Headquarters integrates NASA as an aggregate sum of its many parts.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
   URL: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov
   The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is operated under contract by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, develops spacecraft and space sensors. It conducts mission operations and ground-based research in support of solar system exploration, earth science and applications, earth and ocean dynamics, space physics and astronomy, and life science and information systems technology.

NASA Langley Research Center
   URL: http://www.larc.nasa.gov
   NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia has been instrumental in shaping aerospace history for more than eight decades. Established in 1917 as the first national civil aeronautics laboratory, NASA Langley has become a world-class center for aeronautics, earth science, space technology, and structures and materials research.
   See especially: Langley Technical Reports Server
   URL:http://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/ltrs/
   LTRS is a service which allows users to search available online NASA published documents, including Meeting Presentations, Journal Articles, Conference Proceedings, and Technical Reports. Many documents are available in compressed PostScript and PDF formats. All documents are unclassified and publicly available. Documents published prior to 1959 can be found on the NACA Technical Reports Server at http://naca.larc.nasa.gov.

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics: NACA Technical Reports Server
   URL:http://naca.larc.nasa.gov
   The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was chartered in 1915 and operational from 1917-1958. The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 created NASA from NACA.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
   URL: http://www.nasa.gov
   The National Aeronautics and Space Administration conducts research concerning the problems of flight within and outside the earth's atmosphere and develops, constructs, tests, and operates aeronautical and space vehicles. It conducts activities required for the exploration of space with manned and unmanned vehicles and arranges for the most effective utilization of scientific and engineering resources of the United States with other nations engaged in aeronautical and space activities for peaceful purposes.
   See especially: NASA Technical Reports Server
   URL: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/
   Provides public access to NASA's technical literature.