Space

Offers history of Australia's activities in rocket and missile testing at the Woomera Range. Includes personal memories of many ex-residents.

A book-length history of the period between Sputnik I and the creation of NASA, by the NASA History Office.

A Soviet space expert discusses how recently declassified material confirms his painstaking discoveries over decades about why the Soviet Union was unable to win the space race.

Biography of the first woman in space.

A selective chronology of historically important manned space missions from 1961 to 1995. Some flights not covered.

Photographs of mission patches and astronauts.

Presents a brief multimedia history of John Glenn's Mercury flight, the first American mission into Earth orbit. Discusses the training and technology of the Mercury Program and the events of Glenn's space flight.