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"A jackpot of previously unknown black holes across the universe has been discovered by the infrared eyes of a prolific NASA sky-mapping telescope. The cosmic find comes from data collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey (WISE) telescope, which scanned the entire sky in infrared light from December 2009 to February 2011. The full catalog of observations by WISE during its mission was publicly released in March, and astronomers are still poring through this celestrial trove for discoveries."

The 100 Year Starship Study aims to stimulate students, academia, industry, researchers and the public to consider possibilities and issues surrounding long-duration, long-distance spaceflight. The 100 YSS public symposium will feature presentations of papers and panel discussion in seven relevant tracks related to interstellar travel: Time-Distance Solutions; Habitats and Environmental Science; Biology and Space Medicine; Education, Social, Economic and Legal Considerations; Destinations; Philosophical and Religious Considerations; and Communication of the Vision.

Space Lab - links to wide variety of materials, videos

"NASA and private space firms are determined to strengthen partnerships in the next phase of development in the agency's commercial crew transportation program, which is due to kick off in February, officials said last week. "

online space news

"The Kennedy Space Center is located on the east coast of Florida approximately midway between Jacksonville and Miami and is located about 35 miles east of Orlando International Airport in Brevard County, Florida. It is 55 km (34 miles) long and around 10 km (6 miles) wide, covering 567 km² (219 square miles). "

" huge info-dump of research material which I've added, unedited, at the end."

"Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge -- a programming competition run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Having endured months of hard work and three qualifying stages, players will fly miniature satellites aboard the space station using computer programs they've written. "

"explore or use the menu on the left side of this screen. Learn about outer space with KidsAstronomy.com."

NASA Missions - International Space Station"

The National Air and Space Museum offers a variety of free educational programs for school groups and organized youth groups. Here you will find information on educational activities at the Museum as well as resources provided for classroom learning.

Looking back on his flight into space as pilot of SpaceShipOne, Mike Melvill finds the whole experience somewhat surreal

In the 1980s, Nicole P. Stott was a student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach. Last year, however, she got to see Florida from a very different perspective -- from orbit.

"Pam Melroy, Pilot, 100th Shuttle Flight - STS-92 - Approximately twenty percent of the United States astronauts are women. In the history of the program only three women have been designated as pilot astronauts. On October 11, 2000 Lt. Col. Pamela Ann Melroy USAF, after a two-year delay, became the third woman to make her "rookie" flight into space as pilot on the orbiter Discovery.

This film documents the first historic flight of a space shuttle, the U.S. spacecraft Columbia, which launched on April 12, 1981. The footage highlights liftoff, the onboard activities of astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen, as well as the landing in Rogers Dry Lake bed in California. -

What happened from 1998 until 2010. Watch the pieces come together as they are sent up from Earth. The International Space Station (ISS) Assembly diagram, piece by piece.

the spacesuits that kept the astronauts alive beyond Earth. Most of the National Air and Space Museum's collection of about 300 spacesuits in a climate-controlled room.

"The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010. Data: Digital Universe, American Museum of Natural History http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe/"

"Serving 400,000 students each year, the national network of 48 Challenger Learning Centers takes students on simulated space missions into Earth orbit, to the Moon, Mars and beyond. "