Space

Online Databases

Databases require login and passcode information to access from home. See library staff for guidance.

• Encyclopedia Britannica
• World Book Online
• Science in Context 

Space & Space Exploration Websites

Timelines

• NASA Planet Quest Historic Timeline
• Windows to the Universe: Astronomy Timeline
• Astronomy: Journey to the Cosmic Frontier – timeline
• Space Race Timeline 

Astronomers

• Early Astronomers: Ptolemy, Aristotle, Copernicus and Galileo
• Ancient Astronomers Timeline
• Astronomers Past and Present
• Caroline Herschel
• Edwin Hubble
• Tycho Brahe

General Space Websites

• BBC: On This Day in Space – great site from the BBC
• Earth Sky
• Hubble Site – Space Science Telescope Institute
• Human Space Flight – click on History tab across top – NASA
• NASA Images – NASA
• NASA Science Missions – NASA
• Solar System Exploration – NASA (look up Missions)
• Solar System Simulator – NASA
• Space Flight Now
• Space Place – NASA
• Space Wander
• Welcome to the Planets – NASA
• Windows to the Universe – click on Space Missions – UCAR