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- About John Glenn - Encarta encyclopedia article about the life of John Glenn, the first American to orbit in space.
beta.encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=761563272#5
- About Ronald McNair, PhD - African American astronaut who died in the Challenger explosion.
www.knox.edu/knoxweb/campus_services/mcnair/about_ronald.html
- Adm. Alan Shepard, Jr. - A biography and 1991 interview with the first American to go into space.
www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/she0int-1
- Astronauts - Brief biographies of two Canadian astronauts, Roberta Bondar and Ken Money.
www.senecac.on.ca/bondar/astronauts.html
- Christa McAuliffe - Biography of the teacher astronaut who died in the Challenger explosion.
www.framingham.com/history/profiles/christa.htm
- Comrade Kosmonaut - All about the Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.
www.kosmonaut.se/gagarin
- Dr. Ellen Ochoa - Ellen Ochoa is the first Hispanic female astronaut.
www.atomicmuseum.com/tour/sc1.cfm
- Dr. Mae Jemison - About the first African American woman astronaut.
www.quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/TODTWD/jemison.bio.html
- Dr. Ronald E. McNair - Biography of the astronaut from the University of New Hampshire.
www.unh.edu/mcnair/r_mcnair.html
- Dr. Ronald McNair - A brief biography of one of the Challenger astronauts.
mcnair.binghamton.edu/bio.html
- Dr. Sally Ride - Biography of the first American woman to orbit the earth.
starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/ride.html
- Eileen Collins - Short biography of the astronaut.
starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/collins.html
- Eileen Marie Collins - Official NASA biography of the first woman to command the Space Shuttle.
www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/collins.html
- Ellen Ochoa - NASA's biography of this three-time mission payload specialist.
www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ochoa.html
- Ellen Ochoa - Biography of the Hispanic engineer and astronaut.
web.mit.edu/invent/www/ochoa.html
- Glenn, John Herschel, Jr. - From the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000236
- Guion Bluford - Biography of the first African American to go into space.
www.windows.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/tour.cgi?link=/people/astronauts/bluford.html
- Jim Lovell, an Astronaut's Story - Extensive biography of one of the Apollo 13 astronauts.
www.mcn.org/Apollo13/Home.html
- John Glenn: Three Orbits to History - Presents a brief multimedia history of John Glenn's Mercury flight, the first American mission into Earth orbit.
www.capstonestudio.com/mercury
- John Hershel Glenn, Jr. - Student's report about John Glenn, first American to orbit in space.
dusd.k12.ca.us/des/bwebb/reports/space/glenn.html
- Julie Payette - Canadian astronaut who was the first Canadian to participate in the assembly of the International Space Station.
www.space.gc.ca/csa_sectors/human_presence/missions/sts-096/about/bio.htm
- Lt. Col. Eileen M. Collins - Text, video and audio interviews with the first woman shuttle commander.
quest.arc.nasa.gov/space/frontiers/collins.html
- MacLean, Steve - Information on his experience, special honors. Also includes personal information.
www.space.gc.ca/csa_sectors/human_presence/astronauts/astronauts/corps/biomaclean.asp
- Mae Jemison - The first African American woman to enter space.
starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/jemison.html
- Neil A. Armstrong - Biography of the first man to step on the earth's moon.
home.flash.net/~imagine5/bios/Armstrong.html
- Roberta Bondar Questions and Answers - The first Canadian woman to become an astronaut and fly in space answers some of the questions children have asked her.
www.senecac.on.ca/bondar/qabondar.html
- Roberta Lynn Bondar - Canadian astronaut biography from NASA.
www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/PS/bondar.html
- Ronald E. McNair - Biography on the Ronald E. McNair scholarship website at the University of Kansas.
www.soe.ukans.edu/aep/mcnair/about.html
- Sally Kristen Ride - First American woman in space.
www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/96may/ride.html
- Story Musgrave, M.D. - An American astronaut who has flown six missions into space.
www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/mus0pro-1
- Tereshkova, Valentina Vladimirovna - Encarta encyclopedia article about the famous Russian cosmonaut.
beta.encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=761575085
- The Apollo Astronauts - Contains pictures of all the Apollo astronauts, the men who went to the moon. Features information on mission launch dates.
mailbox.univie.ac.at/~prillih3/astronauts/mainpage.html
- Top-Biography.com: Neil Armstrong - Includes biographical sketch, quotations, and a timeline of his life.
www.top-biography.com/9099-Neil%20Armstrong
- Tryggvason, Bjarni - Information on his special honors, personal information and organizations.
www.space.gc.ca/csa_sectors/human_presence/astronauts/astronauts/corps/biotryggvason.asp
- Valentina Tereshkova - The Russian cosmonaut was the first woman to travel in space.
starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level1/tereshkova.html
- Williams, Dave - Includes information on his education, affiliations and experience.
www.space.gc.ca/csa_sectors/human_presence/astronauts/astronauts/corps/biowilliams.asp
- Yuri Gagarin - Article about the Russian astronaut, the first man in space.
starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level1/gagarin.html
- Yuri Gagarin - Very brief biography of the Russian cosmonaut.
www.windows.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/tour.cgi?link=/people/astronauts/gagarin.html
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