NASA Sites
Headquarters
NASA HeadquartersNASA Headquarters is the voice of the Agency. Through sound Agency Management, integral Functional/Staff Offices, and a vigorous Enterprise Management, NASA Headquarters integrates NASA as an aggregate sum of its many parts.
NASA Information Services
Good starting point to all NASA links.
Space & Research Centers
Ames Research CenterThe Ames Research Center is located at Moffett Field, California in the heart of "Silicon Valley." Ames was founded December 20, 1939 as an aircraft research laboratory by the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) and in 1958 became part of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Ames specializes in research geared toward creating new knowledge and new technologies that span the spectrum of NASA interests.
Dryden Flight Research Center
The Dryden Flight Research Center, located at Edwards, California, is NASA's primary installation for flight research. Projects at Dryden over the past 50 years have lead to major advancements in the design and capabilities of many civilian and military aircraft.
Glenn Research Center
The NASA Glenn Research Center defines and develops advanced technology for high priority national needs. The work of the Center is directed toward new propulsion, power, and communications technologies for application to aeronautics and space, so that U.S. leadership in these areas is ensured.
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
The Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) is located near Columbia University in New York City. A subdivision of the Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Sciences Directorate in Maryland, GISS is primarily engaged in studies of global climate change.
Goddard Space Flight Center
Goddard is the lead Center in NASA's Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE) program. Mission to Planet Earth is NASA's long term, coordinated research effort to study the Earth as a global environmental system. The Earth Observing System (EOS) is the centerpiece of MTPE and is managed by Goddard. EOS will feature a series of polar orbiting and low inclination satellites for global observations of the land surface, biosphere, solid Earth, atmospheres and oceans.
Indepedent Verification and Validation Facility
Located in the heart of West Virginia's emerging technology sector, the NASA Ames Research Center, Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Facility was established in 1993 as part of an agency-wide strategy to provide the highest achievable levels of safety and cost-effectiveness for mission critical software.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the lead U.S. center for robotic exploration of the solar system. JPL spacecraft have visited all known planets except Pluto (a Pluto mission is currently under study for the early part of the next decade). In addition to its work for NASA, JPL conducts tasks for a variety of other federal agencies.
Johnson Space Center
The Johnson Space Center is the focal point for advanced studies for future human exploration activities beyond low Earth orbit and the lead center for the space shuttle and the International Space Station programs and for biomedical research.
Kennedy Space Center
The Kennedy Space Center is responsible for the checkout, launch, and landing of the Space Shuttle and its payloads.
Langley Research Center
The Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA has been instrumental in shaping aerospace history for more than eight decades. Established in 1917, as the first national civil aeronautics laboratory, NASA Langley has become a world-class center for aeronautics, earth science, space technology, and structures and materials research.
Marshall Space Flight Center
Marshall Space Flight Center is primarily organized around four Directorates for major development and Lead Center areas. These Directorates are Space Transportation, Science and Flight Projects and the Engineering Directorate. The Center Operations and Customer and Employee Relations Directorates carry out institutional capabilities of the Center.
Stennis Space Center
The Stennis Space Center in South Mississippi is NASA's primary center for testing and flight certifying rocket propulsion systems for the Space Shuttle and future generations of space vehicles. Because of its important role in engine testing for more than three decades, Stennis Space Center has been designated NASA's Center of Excellence for rocket propulsion testing.
Wallops Flight Facility
Established in 1945 under NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), Wallops Flight Facility is one of the oldest launch sites in the world. It is located on the Virginia Eastern Shore. Supports scientific research and payload development.
Data Sources & Other Info
Applied Information Systems Research Program (Univ. of Colorado)ASTER Spectral Library
The ASTER spectral library includes data from three other spectral libraries: the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Spectral Library; the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Spectral Library; and the United States Geological Survey (USGS - Reston) Spectral Library.
Astro-2
BOREAS-Remote Sensing Science Group
Cassini: Voyage to Saturn
The Cassini spacecraft is exploring the exciting realm of Saturn.
Central Operations of Resources for Educators
Terrific information for educators.
Commercial Remote Sensing Program
Destination: Earth
The official website for NASA's Earth Science Enterprise
Distributed Active Archive Center
Earth Observation System Project Science Office
EOS is the centerpiece of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise. It consists of a science component and a data system supporting a coordinated series of polar-orbiting and low inclination satellites for long-term global observations of the land surface, biosphere, solid Earth, atmosphere, and oceans.
Earth From Space
NASA is publishing selected Shuttle photos and related captions on the Internet to provide a glimpse of this national treasure to the public. The database was compiled by NASA staff to illustrate some very interesting Earth features and processes, including cities as seen by astronauts from space.
Earth Science Enterprise
NASA uses the unique vantage point of space to provide the scientific basis for informed policymaking, and the research to support the operational missions of other US Governmental organizations. Results of ESE science research and applications provide an objective starting point for the development of sound global environmental policy.
Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology
Extreme altitude and long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft technology development and payload integration to support environmental science needs.
Gaia Research Group
Galileo: Journey to Jupiter
Launched in 1989, the Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter on December 7, 1995, when it fired its main engine for a successful orbit capture around Jupiter. On that day, Galileo's atmospheric probe plunged into Jupiter's atmosphere and relayed information on the structure and composition of the solar system's largest planet.
Global Change Master Directory
Global Hydrology and Climate Center
The GHCC's many areas of study are closely related to each other. Like the climate and environment they study, no one aspect stands alone; all connect in a complex, interactive Earth-Atmosphere system.
GLOBE Visualization
History of Space Exploration
Lots of good information and images from the manned space missions.
Human Spaceflight
Johnson Space Center Digital Image Collection
J-Track Satellite Tracking
J-Track lets you choose from a fairly large list of satellites and track those of interest.
Learning From Technologies Program
The goal of NASA's Learning Technologies Project is to promote the growth of a national information infrastructure using the vast amount of information NASA has acquired since its creation. Access to this knowledge will allow the public and industry to contribute to rapid and significant advances in science, engineering, and technology.
Mars Polar Lander
Information on the historical failed mission to Mars.
Mars Mission Research Center (North Carolina State Univ.)
Mission to Planet Earth
Mission to Planet Earth Enterprise
NASA Ames Research Center supports the MTPE Enterprise by conducting research and developing technology to expand the knowledge of Earth's atmosphere and ecosystems.
NASA Links
NASA News (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
NASA Technical Report Server
National Space Science Data Center
The NSSDC provides access to a wide variety of astrophysics, space physics, solar physics, lunar and planetary data from NASA space flight missions, in addition to selected other data and some models and software.
Natural Disaster Reference Database - NASA
The Natural Disaster Reference Database (NDRD) is a bibliographic database on research, programs, and results which relate to the use of satellite remote sensing for disaster mitgation.
New Millennium Program
As a new millennium approaches, NASA has an ambitious, exciting vision for the future: that of speeding up its exploration of space through the development of very advanced technology. The space agency has created the New Millennium Program (NMP) to develop revolutionary technical advances and space flight concepts that will help mankind push back the final frontier.
Observatorium
NASA is committed to education, providing ideas and material for teachers and students through its many programs and centers.
Office of Earth Sciences
The Office of Earth Sciences supports the Space Shuttle and International Space Station Programs by cataloging and archiving the photographs that astronauts--past, present, and future--take using hand-held cameras.
Public Use of Remote Sensing Data
Reflectance Experiment Laboratory
The Keck/NASA RELAB is supported by NASA as a multi-user spectroscopy facility, and laboratory time can be made available at no charge to investigators who are in funded NASA programs. RELAB has two operational spectrometers available to NASA scientists: 1) a near-ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared bidirectional spectrometer and 2) a near- and mid- infrared FT-IR spectrometer. The overall purpose of the design and operation of the RELAB bidirectional spectrometer is to obtain high precision, high spectral resolution, bidirectional reflectance spectra of earth and planetary materials.
Remote Sensing Thrust Office
Scientific and Educational Endeavors
Scientific and Educational Endeavors (SEE) is a small group (less than 10) of Earth scientists and technical specialists that seek funding and partnership for activities using satellite remote sensing data of Earth.
Shuttle Launches from Kennedy Space Center
Shuttle Missions
Space Grant
Space Instrument and Sensing Technology
Space Mission Acronym List & Hyperlink Guide
Spacelink