http://www.sharinglinks.com/bookmarks/surfnetkids/space Recent Space bookmarks posted to SharingLinks.com by user Surfnetkids. SharingLinks.com is an online bookmark manager and a community of parents and teachers. 60 http://www.surfnetkids.com/sputnik.htm On October 4, 1957, at the height of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, the Soviets launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, into orbit around the Earth. surfnetkids Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:45:10 +0000 cold war kids space space race sputnik surfnetkids teachers http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/ People the world over speak of the ‘Space Age' as beginning with the launching of the Russian Sputnik on 4 October 1957. surfnetkids Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:43:05 +0000 cold war space space race sputnik http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal114/gal114.htm After World War II, the Space Race was one component of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States... surfnetkids Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:39:55 +0000 cold war space space race sputnik http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/spacerace/ Based on recently declassified documents from the Soviet Union and the United States, this National Geographic television special (from 2006) adds new insight into why the two superpowers were racing into space. surfnetkids Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:38:20 +0000 cold war space space race sputnik http://www.nytimes.com/partners/aol/special/sputnik/ "It's difficult to recapture the sense of paranoia and self-doubt that Sputnik created in the U.S., but The New York Times' coverage of that week helps a bit." surfnetkids Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:36:37 +0000 cold war space space race sputnik http://www.mentallandscape.com/S_Sputnik.htm Don Mitchell is a retired research scientist with an interest in Soviet spacecraft. In honor of Sputnik's fiftieth anniversary, Mitchell created a site about the early days of the Soviet space program. surfnetkids Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:32:22 +0000 cold war space space race sputnik http://www.surfnetkids.com/international_space_station.htm The International Space Station (ISS) is a low-flying research facility jointly operated by the space agencies of the U.S., Russia, Canada, Japan, and eleven European countries. surfnetkids Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:33:46 +0000 iss kids space space station surfnetkids teachers http://iss.cet.edu/ The NASA-supported Classroom of the Future is a multimedia resource for both students and teachers. surfnetkids Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:29:22 +0000 iss space space station http://www.discovery.com/stories/science/iss/iss.html The first features that caught my eye were the Interactives such as the Spacewalk... surfnetkids Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:24:46 +0000 iss space space station http://science.howstuffworks.com/space-station.htm "Imagine waking up in the morning, looking out your window and seeing this view. Breathtaking, isn't it? What would it be like to live in space?" surfnetkids Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:20:37 +0000 iss space space station http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/ I can't possibly summarize all the great content NASA provides on their ISS pages, so here are just of few of my favorite sections. surfnetkids Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:17:36 +0000 iss space space station http://www.pbs.org/spacestation/ "The Space Station is the largest manned object ever sent into space, encompassing 43,000 cubic feet of living and working space - the equivalent of two Boeing 747's" surfnetkids Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:12:33 +0000 iss space space station http://www.surfnetkids.com/hubble.htm The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990 by space shuttle Discovery, orbits the earth about 380 miles above us. It uses two cameras and two spectrographs to record images of space. Hubble's pictures have delighted scientists and star gazers for more t surfnetkids Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:00:00 +0000 hubble kids space surfnetkids teachers telescope http://www.howstuffworks.com/hubble.htm "Like any telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has a long tube that is open at one end. surfnetkids Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:00:00 +0000 hubble space telescope http://hubble.nasa.gov/ "Not since Galileo turned his telescope towards the heavens in 1610 has any event so changed our understanding of the universe as the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope. surfnetkids Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:00:00 +0000 hubble space telescope