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Listed below are websites sponsored by companies and organizations which offer
information related to the subject matter of certain Arts & Letters thematic
products such as Aviation, Dinosaurs, and Space. Individuals and organizations
have created many of these sites for educational purposes only.
The Arts & Letters link list is your guide to some of the wonderful sites the
Internet has to offer. Below you will find different topics in which to choose
from. Not all of the categories are located on this page. Some links are found
elsewhere in our site as part of specific topics we provided information about. All of the links we provided can be accessed from this list. If you have a favorite site we have not listed which adheres to these simplistic guidelines, let us know so we may add it.
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- 13th Bomb Squadron Association
Join this elite fighting Squadron for a few moments and learn everything you ever wanted to know about low-level, night interdiction missions of the Korean War!
- B-17 Flying Fortress Virtual Tour
Take a virtual tour of a real B-17 Flying Fortress using both QuickTime VR panoramas and QuickTime VR Object movies.
- Museums-Cavanaugh Flight Museum
Addison Texas is home to one of the premier aviation museums in the country, featuring 50,000 square feet of war birds on display which are restored to their original flying condition. The museum also houses popular display of aviation art and memorabilia, as well as a gift shop.
- Education-Glenn Learning Technology Projects
GLTP is a NASA sponsored site featuring aeronautic resources for teachers and students with a focus for beginners to the subject.
- Education-The K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook
"The K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook" is an electronic multimedia text, teachers supplement and student workbook designed to be used over the internet in conjunction with the World Wide Web. This "electronic textbook" presents a comprehensive, cohesive study of the science of aeronautics at a level elementary and middle school students and their instructors can easily understand and enjoy.
- Golden web page, The
The Golden web page was created to honor our civilian and military American Patriots.
It represents the feelings of Master Sergeant George P. Crofton, United States Air Force Retired
(Active Duty 1952 - 1972), for our great country and for our responsibilities.
- Igor I. Sikorsky Historical Archives Inc.
This Foundation is dedicated to acquiring, preserving and protecting the historical materials that chronicle the aviation careers of Igor Sikorsky, the companies he founded and the accomplishments of its employees. The collection dates from the latter part of the nineteenth century to the present.
- Luft '46
During WWII, German aircraft designers put forth many aircraft project ideas, which ranged from the practical to the bizarre. Some of these ideas were ahead of their time and reached a more advanced design stage, and even affect aircraft today.
- Magazines-Air & Space Smithsonian
View the current issue of Air & Space online. This site is dedicated to providing information about aviation for everyone to enjoy
- Museums-National Air & Space Museum
The Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum (NASM) maintains the largest collection of historic air and spacecraft in the world. It is also a vital center for research into the history, science, and technology of aviation and space flight.
- Museums-USAF Museum
The United States Air Force Museum near Dayton, Ohio is the oldest and largest military aviation museum in the world. The Museum uses both chronological and subjective layouts to tell the exciting story of aviation development from the days of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk to the Space Age.
- The United States Navy
This is the World Wide web site for official information about the United States Navy. The purpose is to provide information and news about the United States Navy to the Navy community, the citizens of the United States, and the media.
- Warbirds Resource Group
The Warbirds Resource Group was formed to provide a cohesive organization that ties various resource groups together. There are currently six resource groups in existence, The Luftwaffe Resource Group which is the largest, is the most complete and is the flagship of the group.
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- Computational Paleontology
CP is devoted to the use of mathematical models, simulation, computer graphics and computers in general in paleontology.
- Museums-Dakota Dinosaur Museum
The mission of the Dakota Dinosaur Museum is to promote tourism by providing a facility to display earth science specimens excavated from the area as a community educational and economic development project.
- Education-Dinosaurs & Other Paleontology Books
Dinosaurs & Other Paleontology Books for Children & Young Adults is an Internet school library of juvenile titles related to paleontology. Topics include dinosaurs, fossils, mass extinction of dinosaurs and related topics.
- Fossils-Collections
Fossil Collections of the World provides hundreds of links to information in reference to fossils for research.
- Fossil News
Fossil News - Journal of Amateur Paleontology is one of the premier publications in the English-speaking amateur paleontological community, with subscribers in all 50 US states and almost two dozen foreign countries.
- Magazine-The Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette
The ultimate online dinosaur magazine.
- Museums-Peabody Museum, Yale: Invertebrate Paleontology
Yale's collection of invertebrate fossils is world-wide in scope. The holdings represent a treasure of more than 300,000 specimen lots which comprise approximately four million individuals. A total of 30,000 invertebrate fossils has been formally described; about 4,000 of these specimens form the basis of new species descriptions.
- Museums-Peabody Museum, Yale: Vertebrate Paleontology
The vertebrate fossil collections at Yale are world-wide in scope. At present, the Yale collection (YPM) is comprised of over 55,000 catalogued specimens.
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- Apollo Lunar Surface Journal
The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal is a record of the lunar surface operations conducted by the six pairs of astronauts who landed on the Moon from 1969 through 1972. The Journal is intended as a resource for anyone wanting to know what happened during the missions and why.
- Apollo-Chronology
The chronology of the development of the Apollo spacecraft and the lunar mission provides specific documented information covering a wide range of happenings both directly and indirectly related to the program.
- Apollo-Lunar Module/Grumman
The Space/Craft Assembly and Test page has been dedicated to the men and women that designed, built and tested the Lunar Module.
- Apollo-Saturn V Documents
These documents at the Spaceflight Library are official NASA items, or written by contractors during the Apollo era. They represent information not readily available in today's world, nearly thirty years after Neil Armstrong made that historic step.
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific
For over a hundred years, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific has worked to explain the mysteries of the universe to students, teachers, hobbyists, and the general public. The ASP has become the largest general astronomy society in the world, with members from over 70 nations.
- Earth Viewer
You can view either a map of the Earth showing the day and night regions at this moment, or view the Earth from the Sun, the Moon, the night side of the Earth, above any location on the planet specified by latitude, longitude and altitude, from a satellite in Earth orbit, or above various cities around the globe.
- Education-Space Awareness
Student Space Awareness, Inc. is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to educate students and the general public as to the values and benefits of the space program.
- Education-Space Voyage
Space Voyage Simulation...The Ultimate Field Trip is dedicated to parents and teachers to help students realize their full educational potential (Kindergarten through College).
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the lead U.S. center for robotic exploration of the solar system.
- JPL-Imaging Radar
The Imaging Radar home page exists to inform the public about the work NASA and JPL (and other institutions) are conducting in radar remote sensing of the Earth's surface.
- Lunar Prospector
The NASA/Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA invites you and the world to look at the events surrounding the first NASA Moon mission in 25 years!
- Magazines-Sky & Telescope
Since 1941 Sky & Telescope has been the world's leading source of accurate and up-to-date information about astronomy and space science. Sky & Telescope appeals to the full spectrum of astronomy enthusiasts, from the novice ready to purchase a first telescope, to the enthusiastic amateur looking to enhance observing skills and equipment, to the professional desiring to keep up with this dynamically changing field.
- Malin Space Science Systems
Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) was established in 1990 to design, develop, and operate instruments to fly on unmanned spacecraft.
- Manned Flight-Locations of Manned Space Capsules
This site contains a list of links to Mercury, Gemini and Apollo related topics for research.
- Mars-The Mars Society
This is the headquarters for information about the Mars Direct mission plan.
- Museums-Kansas Cosmosphere & Space Center
The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center is dedicated to the future of the Cosmosphere and is one of America's premier space museums and educational facilities.
- NASA Home Page
NASA is deeply committed to spreading the unique knowledge that flows from its aeronautics and space research by providing a unique website
with up to date information for research.
- Pioneer
Pioneer Project contains information about the Pioneer 10 mission which was the first spacecraft to travel through the Asteroid belt, and the first spacecraft to make direct observations and obtain close-up images of Jupiter.
- The National Space Society On-Line
The National Space Society's vision is people living and working in thriving communities beyond Earth. NSS members promote change in social, technical, economic, and political conditions to advance the day when people will live and work in space.
- The Planetary Atlas
Planetary image finders is dedicated to listing the best sources of high-resolution, often unprocessed images, for each planet or moon.
- The Planetary Society
Your connection to the exploration of the solar system and the search for life in the universe.
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