These courses, produced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, introduce the fundamental concepts and approaches of aerospace engineering, highlighted through lectures on aeronautics, astronautics, and design. ...

In this activity students read about the effects of radiation on airline passengers, and discover that during a trip in a jet plane at altitudes of 30,000 feet, cosmic rays and other energetic particles pose a great...

This web page provides milestones of the European Space Agency's first space probe to the moon. The ESA's ion driven SMART-1 probe entered lunar orbit on 2004 Nov 16 after an 80 million kilometer, 13 month journey. ...

The European Space Agency's homepage provides information on the ESA's telecommunications, navigations, Earth observations, human spaceflight missions, launches, space science, technology, industry, space operations,...

This web site features the Franklin Institute's (Philadelphia, Pa.) historic collection of photographs, writings, drawings and schematics from the Wright Brothers, as well as a section on the John Alcock and Arthur...