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Space.com 
  
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Space.com is an online forum for discussion of space, science and technological innovation. It has links to online magazines like Live Science, Space News, and Ad Astra, SETI science…
https://www.space.com/
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Astronomy Apps for Mobile Devices: A First Catalog 
  
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A. Fraknoi, Astron. Educ. Rev., 10 (1), 010302 (2011).
An annotated overview of 98 astronomy applications for smart phones and tablets has been published in the on-line journal "Astronomy Education Review." Compiled by Andrew Fraknoi…
https://doi.org/10.3847/AER2011036
NASA: Radioisotope Power Systems 
  
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This is a multimedia overview of RPS (radioisotope power systems), a type of nuclear energy technology that uses heat to produce electricity for powering spacecraft. The heat is…
https://rps.nasa.gov/
Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures 
  
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This series of video lectures covers a wide range of current topics in astronomy and astrophysics given by leading scientists in their fields. These are recorded from regular…
https://www.youtube.com/user/SVAstronomyLectures
SOHO: Solar and Heliospheric Observatory 
  
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The SOHO website provides an overview of the SOHO mission, the instruments involved, the operations of the mission, and the latest articles about the mission. There is also an image…
https://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/
NASA: The Apollo Missions 
  
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This website describes all the Apollo missions, including the goals, the spacecraft equipment, the events of the mission, and the outcomes. This website also includes links to…
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/index.html
Far-out Pathways to Space: Great Guns? 
  
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This is a set of six web pages describing four unconventional methods of accelerating spacecraft. These are using cannons, nuclear power, solar sails and ion rockets. Gravity-assist…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/SSHARP.htm
Mass - Comparing Masses Without Use of Gravity 
  
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This is the first of three linked web pages. The one listed introduces the concept of mass and the question of how it may be measured without recourse to gravity, e.g. in the…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Smass.htm
Explorers 1 and 3 - The Discovery and Early History of the Earth's Radiation Belts 
  
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The first of 6 linked web pages on how the inner radiation belt was discovered in 1958 by Van Allen, on the type of instrument used (Geiger counter), on the belt's explanation based…
http://www.phy6.org/Education/wexp13.html
Newtonian Mechanics 
  
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Algebra-based material at the high-school level, oriented towards astronomy and spaceflight, which explores Newton's Laws and their application. Concepts are stressed such as vectors…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Smechopen.htm
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