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Aeronautics
A model airplane in a wind tunnel

What Are Wind Tunnels?
>  Read and Comment


 
A drawing of a jet flying above a desert, with arrows pointing away from the jet

What Is Aerodynamics?
>  Read and Comment


 
A helicopter pulls a Mercury capsule from the ocean

What Is a Helicopter?
>  Read and Comment


 
A speeding bullet

What Is Supersonic Flight?
>  Read and Comment


 


Astronauts
Glenn wears his silver Mercury spacesuit

Who Is John Glenn?
>  Read and Comment
 


Armstrong in a white spacesuit in front of a picture of the moon

Who Was Neil Armstrong?
>  Read and Comment
 


Sally Ride's official astronaut portrait

Who Was Sally Ride?
>  Read and Comment
 


Lee in a spacesuit in front of Earth, with the shuttle in the foreground

What Is a Spacesuit?
>  Read and Comment


 


An astronaut floating in space

What Is a Spacewalk?
>  Read and Comment


 


Alan Shepard wears his silver Mercury spacesuit

Who Was Alan Shepard?
>  Read and Comment


 


Earth Science
Rows of clouds

What Are Clouds?
>  Read and Comment


 
A large, white swirling storm over the ocean

What Are Hurricanes?
>  Read and Comment


 
A penguin standing in the snow

What Is Antarctica?
>  Read and Comment
 
A rocky and dry desert landscape

What Is Climate Change?
>  Read and Comment
 
Earth from space

What Is Earth?
>  Read and Comment
 


General
Satellites circle Earth

What Is a Satellite?
>  Read and Comment


 
Three astronauts float, with two sideways and one right side up

What Is Microgravity?
>  Read and Comment


 
An astronaut, wearing a spacesuit attached to several cables, floats in space

What Is NASA?
>  Read and Comment


 
Two Robonaut models hold tools

What Is Robonaut?
>  Read and Comment


 
A robot performs work outside the space station

What Is Robotics?
>  Read and Comment
 


History
Friendship 7 launches atop an Atlas rocket

What Was Project Mercury?
>  Read and Comment
 
An astronaut in a spacesuit outside the vehicle

What Was the Gemini Program?
>  Read and Comment


 
An astronaut sits in a lunar rover on the moon

What Was the Apollo Program?
>  Read and Comment
 


Rockets and Space Vehicles
A Saturn V rocket launches

What Is a Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle?
>  Read and Comment


 
An artist's drawing of the Juno spacecraft flying in front of Jupiter

What Is Juno?
>  Read and Comment
 
A drawing of the LRO spacecraft in orbit

What Is LRO?
>  Read and Comment


 
An artist's picture of the finished space station

What Is the ISS?
>  Read and Comment


 
An artist's drawing of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle in orbit

What Is Orion?
>  Read and Comment


 
Falcon 9's engines are test-fired

What Is a Rocket?
>  Read and Comment


 
A space shuttle landing

What Is the Space Shuttle?
>  Read and Comment


 
A Saturn V launches from the pad

What Was the Saturn V?
>  Read and Comment


 


Space Science

 
The planet Saturn and its rings

Ring-a-Round the Saturn
>  Read and Comment
 
The space station seen with the curve of Earth in the distance

What's an Orbit?
>  Read and Comment
 
A black hole with gas spiraling into it

What Is a Black Hole?
>  Read and Comment


 
Jupiter with a shadow from one of its moons

What Is Jupiter?
>  Read and Comment
 
Mars

What Is Mars?
>  Read and Comment
 
The planet Mercury

What Is the Planet Mercury?
>  Read and Comment
 
Graphic showing location of orbital debris

What Is Orbital Debris?
>  Read and Comment
 
Pluto and its three moons

What Is Pluto?
>  Read and Comment
 
The Fermi satellite in space above a partial view of Earth

What Is the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope?
>  Read and Comment
 
The Hubble Space Telescope orbits above Earth

What Is the Hubble Space Telescope?
>  Read and Comment
 
 
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