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Destination Mars, 1997 2001: A Space Odyssey, Warner Studios,1968, ASIN 6302760054 Mission to Mir: An IMAX Movie, Warner Home Video, 1997, ASIN B00005MEPG Skylab — The Second Manned Mission, Talas Enterprises, ASIN B0002FHQYQ Skylab: The First 40 Days, Cannata Communications, 1993, ASIN 6302795087 Four Rooms: Earth View, Cannata Communications, 1975, ASIN 6302795109 This is America, Charlie Brown: The NASA Space Station, Paramount Studios, 1988, ASIN 6303451640 Inside the Space Station, Artesian Entertainment, 2000, ASIN B000053VAM Living in Space Space Station Science: Life in Free Fall Beginner's Guide to Living in Space (Future Files) Space Colonies Kids and Technology: Space Colonization Future Missions to Mars Are We Moving to Mars? Lunar Bases (First Books) Build Your Own Moon Settlement Moon Quest (Choose Your Own Adventure, No. 167) Bretta Martyn Mir Space Station (Above and Beyond) Zero Gravity Living in Space Space Station Ice 3 Living on the Moon Moon Base: First Colony in Space The Snows of Olympus: A Garden on Mars The Case for Mars Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization Imagine Mars invites children, educators, and the community to imagine what it would be like to live on Mars. Children learn about the Red Planet, identify cultural elements for a colony, access interviews with scientists, and share their projects through the site. Discovery presents Life in Space, a site that explores what it is like to live and work on the International Space Station. Images, interviews with the astronauts, and interactive activities make this a good site for explorers of all ages. NASA Kids shares what it is like to live and work in space, including eating, sleeping, and washing, for ages 7–10. The site also provides links for other International Space Station information. Lockheed Martin's Space Day Site includes challenges to children to design colonies, instruments, and support for other human aspects of space exploration. News, events, discussion boards, materials, and resources are presented to enable children and educators to celebrate Space Day! Older children and adults can learn the latest International Space Station news on this NASA Web site. Interactive site for ages 8–14 for tracking the International Space Station. For more tracking information, check out this site for children and adults. Information about the Red Planet from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for ages 10–13. The site shares news, science, and links to past, present, and future missions. Lunar information from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for children ages 10 to 13. The site shares news, science, and links to past, present, and future missions. Artist Pat Rawlings creates images of colonies on Mars and the Moon, as well as a variety of space exploration and research subjects. A great site for sparking imagination! Collection of artists' images of what a colony on Mars might look like. Includes pictures and animations of transportation vehicles, bases, and research. NASA's Human Exploration and Development of Space provides links to resources that explore the human elements of living and working in space and NASA efforts to develop the technology to further human exploration. There are also links to instructional materials that support learning about living and working in space. The Space Site explores why humans should settle in space and some of the challenges to doing so. Colonization art, news, and a guide to space exploration's history and future are available. SkyScopes, a business that offers educational space toys, provides a potpourri of links, news, and overviews about furthering colonization of space. The Biosphere 2 site provides information about this large-scale experiment, which investigated long-term human habitation in an enclosed habitat in Tucson, Arizona. The Mars Society includes scientists and Red Planet enthusiasts who advocate the exploration and settlement of Mars. Learn about Mars and the most recent events in planning a journey there. Access songs and shop for Mars products. The Artemis Project is working to establish a self-sustaining Moon colony. The site contains a tour and a list of articles related to space travel and colonization. LunaCorp offers the public to access space events and exploration through telecommunications. They also develop instruments for exploring the Moon and planets. The Astrobiology Web is devoted to articles about terraforming written by researchers and science fiction writers in the field. Learn how terraforming is accomplished and the advantages of terraforming a planet. Images present what might happen on Mars. The Berlin University of Technology's Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics offers a quarterly lunar base newsletter geared toward interested adults, with updates on the latest ideas, conferences, and technologies about lunar bases. NASA's Advanced Life Support program is building an understanding of what is necessary for long-term missions in space, including air purification, waste management, and food production. This site provides adults and young adults with an overview of the program's objectives in the different areas of research. NASA's fact sheets about the space shuttle and the International Space Stations cover topics from mission highlights to construction and components, to astronaut selection and training. NASA's Moon and Mars Vision for Exploration page includes an overview of NASA's future plans, as well as links to exploration art, past Mars missions, and lunar exploration. NASA's Vision for Space Exploration, announced on January 14, 2004, offers a "building block" strategy of human and robotic missions, beginning with returning the space shuttle to flight and completing the International Space Station. The President's Commission on the Moon, Mars, and Beyond was formed to provide input to the President regarding U.S. goals for future exploration. The report of the committee is available as a downloadable document.
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