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Explore the Universe

The new online exhibit, Explore the Universe, is provided by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The site "presents the major discoveries that have given us our current scientific view of the universe, illustrates how the universe is taking shape and probes the mysteries that remain." The exhibit, which is especially interesting when viewed with necessary browsers and multimedia...

https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/explore-the-universe/...
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Google Arts & Culture: Space Exploration

Those who dream of traveling to another planet or are just fascinated by astronomy will want to check out Space Exploration, a project from Google Arts & Culture. Here, readers will find a curated collection of narratives, images, and online exhibits related to the history of space exploration. Visitors can explore the International Space Station via Google Street View and view stories and...

https://artsandculture.google.com/project/space-exploration
Memoirs of a Space Engineer

The homepage of this site, provided by the Australian Broadcasting Association, says, "In the early 1960s, the US began setting up deep-space tracking stations in Australia. Doug Rickard found himself tracking missions to Mars and the moon. Friendly scientific rivalry and those small but spectacular mistakes in space exploration made for a rich episode in Doug's life. These are stories from his...

https://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/memoirs/
Voyager Spacecraft Moves Towards Edge of Solar System

Traveling at 334 million miles per year, the Voyager 1 Spacecraft continues to return vast amounts of important astronomical data to researchers back on Earth, and has done so since its initial launch on September 5, 1977. Most recently, Voyager 1 has been in the news because it is rapidly approaching the boundary of the solar system, and will shortly reach interstellar space. Using measurements...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2003/1107