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International Space Station
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- International Space Station - official NASA site featuring a virtual tour of the ISS, scientific objectives, news, and FAQ.
- Where Is the International Space Station? - current longitude, latitude, altitude, and position map in real time; from the Marshall Space Flight Center.
- Virtual International Space Station - explore the interior and exterior of the ISS through a 3-D virtual model; requires 30-meg download and install.
- Boeing Space Systems: ISS - contains an ISS overview, updates, and sections on ISS components, systems, and science; from NASA's primary ISS contractor, Boeing.
- Canadian Space Agency: Canada & the International Space Station - discusses Canada's contribution to the ISS including manipulator systems used to maintain and service the ISS and payloads.
- European Space Agency (ESA): International Space Station - explains the reasons why Europe is participating in the programme, introduces the European-built hardware elements, and describes the utilisation potential of the station.
- How Space Stations Work - get an illustrated tour of the space station, learn what life is like aboard it, and find out about onboard systems. Also: How Space Suits Work. From Howstuffworks.com.
- How Weightlessness Works - what it is and what it does; from Howstuffworks.
- National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) - information on NASDA astronauts, status reports, and an explanation of the Kibo experiment module.
- NASA: Russian Space Agency - photographs, links, and other information.
- The Next Outpost - features archived stories, photo gallery, and a large conceptual graphic in pdf format on building the space station. From the Houston Chronicle.
- Explore the International Space Station - interactive graphic requiring VRML. From CNN.
- NASA - home page.