Technology

A fast VHDL Compiler/Simulator [Freeware].

Site about Principia school's solar car

MIT Solar car.

Solar car project based out of the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada.

Description of the Mir orbital complex together with a detailed diary of onboard events.

Description of the Salyut 1 space station, its onboard equipment and its mission, together with a detailed diary of onboard events.

This NASA archive offers brief overviews and detailed transcripts of the American lunar landings. Includes crew biographies as well as audio, image, and video galleries.

Part of the NASA Historical Series. The chronology of the development of the Apollo spacecraft and the lunar mission. Provides specific documented information covering a wide range of events related to the Apollo manned spaceflight program.

An interactive experience recreating the historic Apollo 11 mission to the Moon in real time. Includes period photographs and video clips.

Recordings of the Apollo 11 lunar landing as experienced minute-by-minute by the crew and Mission Control.

Overviews of the various Apollo missions, including landing sites, lunar surface operations, science experiments, samplings, and an extensive gallery of mission photography.

Blueprint-type drawings of the Gemini spacecraft.

Homepage for the space mission that will fly close to a comet and, for the first time ever, bring cometary material back to Earth for analysis by scientists worldwide.

Payload manufacturer. Includes a spacecraft overview and information about the LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) instrument.

Landsat information from the Ecosystem Science and Technology Branch of the Earth Science Division at Ames Research Center. Includes news, mission status, laws, and policies on data use.

Find a summary of information about this scientific sensor on the Orbview-2 satellite.

Offers an overview of the program, discussion of science results, and animations.

Mission overview, quick facts, and extensive links to related news stories.

Clearinghouse of links for the Mars Exploration Rover Mission (Spirit and Opportunity).

NASA's official site. Detailed mission information, news reports, and a database of images from the satellite's orbits of Mars.

Explains why this mission is different from previous ones.

Detailed information, experiments, data, and images on the five survey missions (1966-1967).

Digital edition of Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas, 1971, with all 675 plates.

Full spectrometer and gravity data sets and archives.

Mission information and overview, with links to related sites.

Southwest Research Institute's site offers spacecraft details and program status.

Detailed information on NASA missions to the outer planets and the first spacecraft to reach Uranus and Neptune.

Fund-raising site to restore the Slate Covered Bridge, burned by an arsonist in 1993. History, photographs, progress reports. Hosted by Cheshire County USA.

Hank Bickel gives photographs, descriptions, locations and historical facts on bridges in the states of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Connecticut.

History and current data on this link between the United States and Canada. Also includes information on the prehistoric aboriginal discoveries adjacent to the bridge.

Review of Geoffrey Thornton's book. Includes a selection of bridge data and photographs including the Helmores Lane Bridge built in 1864, one of the oldest bridges still in use in New Zealand.

Biography with links to construction projects.

A detailed history of the two bridges spanning St Clair River between the Port Huron, United States and Point Edward, Canada. Paul Cret was consulted by the firm of Modjeski and Masters on the design of the first bridge in the 1930s.

News announcement of Russia's plans to deorbit Mir. [BBC News]

Provides extensive and updated information about the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, flown on two NASA spacecraft (Terra and Aqua).

MODIS data provided by the Distributed Active Archive Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Obtains detailed maps of land surface temperature, emissivity, reflectance and elevation of the Earth.

Offers an overview of the instrument.

Photographs and data of covered, arch, and steel bridges.

Historical data of this steel through-truss bridge across the Mississippi river. Includes facsimile of the original handbill with facts and diagrams, and a gallery of construction photographs.

Aims to save the 97-year-old Hojack Swing Bridge in Rochester, New York. News, images and related documents. Also a collection of illustrated articles about bridges worldwide.

About forty bridges in the state are illustrated and described.