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<h1 id="awesome-space">awesome-space</h1>
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<p>A curated list of awesome resources related to Outer Space</p>
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<h3 id="jobs">Jobs</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://spacejobs.us/">SpaceJobs.US</a> - Free and
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interactive listing of Space Industry positions across all disciplines
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in the United States</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.space-careers.com/">Space Careers</a> -
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Listings of jobs and job applications in the space industry
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(worldwide)</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="media">Media</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacexphotos/">SpaceX</a> -
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Flickr account of SpaceX, with high resolution images and diagrams
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released in the Public Domain</li>
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<li><a href="http://spacelog.org">Spacelog</a> - Read the stories of
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early space exploration from the original transcripts. Now open to the
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public in a searchable, linkable format.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.citiesatnight.org/">Cities at Night</a> - High
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resolution night time city photos from the ISS. Help by classifying new
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cities!</li>
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<li><a href="http://diskdetective.org/">Disk Detective</a> - Comb the
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Milky Way looking for stars that could harbor planet-forming disks.</li>
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<li><a href="https://earthkam.ucsd.edu/home/">ISS EarthKAM</a> - A NASA
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education program that provides unique, high quality photographs of our
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planet taken by middle school students.</li>
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<li><a href="http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/">NASA World Wind</a> -
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Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography
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Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually
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rich 3D, just as if you were really there.</li>
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<li><a
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href="http://www.nasa.gov/connect/artspace/participate/royalty_free_resources.html">NASA
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ArtSpace</a> - Open source material across a variety of new media
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formats (still images, sounds, video, multimedia).</li>
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<li><a
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href="http://hubblesource.stsci.edu/sources/illustrations/">Hubble
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SOURCE</a> - All of Hubble Space Telescope’s press release images are
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available for downloading in various formats, including JPEG, PDF, and
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full-resolution TIFF.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.popsci.com/best-images-outer-space">Space
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Shots</a> - A gallery of photos, visualizations, and other pictures of
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outer space, updated almost daily by the editors of popular
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science.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="events">Events</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://2015.spaceappschallenge.org/">Space Apps
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Challenge</a> - A two-day hackathon where teams of technologists,
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scientists, designers, artists, educators, entrepreneurs, developers and
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students across the globe collaborate and engage with publicly available
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data to design innovative solutions for global challenges.</li>
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<li>[New Space 2015] (https://newspace.spacefrontier.org/) - A two-day
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event bringing space startups, established companies, and government
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agencies togeter with Silicon Valley’s investors and tech
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innovators.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.iafastro.org">International Astronautical
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Congress</a> - Global, multidisciplinary and covering all space sectors
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and topics, IAC offers everyone the latest space information,
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developments but above all contacts and potential partnerships.</li>
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<li><a href="http://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm">Night Sky
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Network</a> - The Night Sky Network is a nationwide coalition that
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regularly shares their knowledge, time, and telescopes to bring amazing
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aspects of astronomy to you (it’s essentially a one-stop-shopping site
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to find a club or event in your town)</li>
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<li><a href="http://isdc2015.nss.org/wordpress/">The National Space
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Society’s (NSS) annual International Space Development Conference®
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(ISDC®)</a> - This conference has attracted up to 1300 attendees from
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over 20 countries, with ISDC® 2014 bringing together over 1000
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attendees. ISDC® also features plenary talks, keynote speakers,
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multi-disciplinary tracks, exhibit hall, design contests, book signing,
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and more.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.aiaa.org/events/">American Institute of
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Aeronautics and Astronautics</a> - List of worldwide space events.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.aeroconf.org/">The International Conference for
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Aerospace Experts, Academics, Military Personnel, and Industry
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Leaders</a> - The international IEEE Aerospace Conference, with AIAA and
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PHM Society as technical cosponsors, is organized to promote
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interdisciplinary understanding of aerospace systems, their underlying
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science and technology, and their applications to government and
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commercial endeavors.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="software">Software</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://software.nasa.gov">NASA Software Catalogue</a> - An
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extensive portfolio of software products for a wide variety of technical
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applications, with varying licenses ranging from Open Source to
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Government Only.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.pdas.com/aerosoft.html">Public Domain
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Aeronautical Software</a> - A list of Public Domain Aeronautical
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Softwares.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="reference">Reference</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://arxiv.org/">arXiv.org</a> - Open access to 1,028,481
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e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative
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Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics</li>
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<li><a href="http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp">NASA Technical Reports
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Server</a> - Providing Acess to NASA’s Technolo, Research, and
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Science</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="research">Research</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a
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href="http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/tech/asr/intelligent-robotics/nasa-vision-workbench/">Vision
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Workbench</a> - The VW is a general purpose image processing and
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computer vision library.</li>
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<li><a href="https://bedreststudy.jsc.nasa.gov/apply.aspx">Flight
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Analogs Project</a> - In the Flight Analogs Project investigations,
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volunteers are in a controlled research environment, spending various
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periods in bed to simulate spaceflight, in the Flight Analog Research
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Center located within the General Clinical Research Center at the
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University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston, Texas).</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.oewf.org/cms/polares.phtml">PolAres</a> - The
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PolAres program aims to develop strategies for human-robotic
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interactions in preparation for a future human-robotic Mars surface
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expedition.</li>
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<li><a href="https://c3.nasa.gov/dashlink">DASHlink</a> - A virtual
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laboratory for scientists and engineers to disseminate results and
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collaborate on research problems in health management technologies for
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aeronautics systems.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="policy">Policy</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/SpaceLaw/outerspt.html">Outer
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Space Treaty</a> - Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of
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States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and
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Other Celestial Bodies.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="rockets-starships">Rockets & Starships</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a
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href="http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/index.php">Atomic
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Rockets</a> - This site originally focused on rocketry equations, but
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has grown to encompass other topics of interest to SF authors and game
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designers.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/">Icarus Interstellar</a>
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- An International organization dedicated to starship research and
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development.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/psas/av3-fc">av3-fc</a> - Open Source
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event driven flight computer for rockets. Created by the Portland State
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Aerospace Society.</li>
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<li><a href="http://psas.pdx.edu">Portland State Aerospace Society</a> -
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Portland State Aerospace Society is a student aerospace engineering
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project at Portland State University, building ultra-low-cost, open
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source rockets that feature some of the most sophisticated amateur
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rocket avionics systems out there today.</li>
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<li><a href="http://stephenmurphey.com/open-source-space-program/">DIY
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Rocket Science</a> - Open Source Hardware is ushering in a new era of
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personal & DIY space exploration. Starting your own space program
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has never been easier. Only a few years ago you needed millions (or
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billions) of dollars and a huge manufacturing facility. Not anymore.
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Thanks to low cost software and manufacturing tools – you can build
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satellites in your garage.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="higher-learning">Higher Learning</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://www.isunet.edu">International Space University</a> -
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The International Space University is a private non-profit institution
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that specializes in providing graduate-level training to the future
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leaders of the emerging global space community at its Central Campus in
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Strasbourg, France, and at locations around the world.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="educational">Educational</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://theinspireproject.org/">INSPIRE Project</a> - A
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non-profit scientific, educational project whose objective is to bring
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the excitement of observing natural and man-made radio waves to high
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school students.</li>
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<li><a href="http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/">My NASA Data</a> -
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Mentoring and inquiry using NASA Data for Atmospheric and earth science
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for Teachers and Amateurs (MY NASA DATA) is a project to enable K-12
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teachers and students, as well as citizen scientists, to explore the
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large volumes of data that NASA collects about the Earth from
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space.</li>
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<li><a href="http://mars.nasa.gov/msip//">Mars Student Imaging
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Project</a> - Teams of students in grades 5 through college sophomore
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level will have the opportunity to work with scientists, mission
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planners and educators on the THEMIS team at ASU’s Mars Space Flight
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Facility or via distance learning, to image a site on Mars using the
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THEMIS visible wavelength camera onboard the Mars Odyssey spacecraft
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which is currently orbiting Mars every 2 hours.</li>
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<li><a
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href="http://windows.ucar.edu/citizen_science/starcount/index.html/">Great
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World Wide Star Count</a> - Interested individuals have the opportunity
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to get involved by making observations, and collecting and reporting
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data.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rHUDWjR5gg">Crash Course
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Astronomy</a> - An easily accessible and informative introduction to
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outer space.</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://www.mcgill.ca/miae/mcgill-institute-aerospace-engineering">McGill
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Institute for Aerospace Engineering</a> - This training program will
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prepare graduate-level engineering students to step directly into
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industry from university research projects, thereby helping to maintain
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and expand Canada’s strong presence in the global aerospace
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industry.</li>
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<li><a
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href="http://www.investquebec.com/international/en/industries/aerospace/cutting-edge-training.html">Aerospace
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education in Quebec</a> - When it comes to training engineers,
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technicians and specialized workers, Québec has partnered with key
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industry players to develop training programs adapted to industry
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needs.</li>
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<li><a href="http://study.com/aerospace_universities.html">List of
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Aerospace Universities and Colleges in the U.S.</a> - Students looking
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to earn a degree in aerospace engineering must consider a few things
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when choosing a school, such as aerospace programs available, research
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and work-study opportunities and a university’s accreditation
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status.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="collective-research">Collective Research</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://milkywayproject.org/">Milky Way Project</a> - A
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project where you can help create a better understanding of how the
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Milky Way evolves over time and potentially make new unexpected
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scientific discoveries.</li>
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<li><a href="http://planethunters.org/">Planet Hunters</a> - Help
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discover new exoplanets (aka extrasolar planets/planets orbiting other
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stars) by exploring space telescope data from NASA’s Kepler
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mission.</li>
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<li><a href="http://galaxyzoo.org/">Galaxy Zoo</a> - Hubble needs your
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help classifying images of hundreds of thousands of galaxies taken by
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.</li>
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<li><a href="http://radio.galaxyzoo.org/">Galaxy Zoo Radio</a> - Help
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astronomers discover supermassive black holes.</li>
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<li><a href="http://moonzoo.org/">Moon Zoo</a> - A citizen science
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project around classifying high resolution images of craters and various
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parts of the lunar surface</li>
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<li><a href="http://solarstormwatch.com">Solar Stormwatch</a> - Learn
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how to spot solar explosions and track them across space to Earth. Your
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work could make a new scientific discovery as well as give astronauts an
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early warning if dangerous radiation is headed their way.</li>
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<li><a href="http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/">Stardust@Home</a>
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- Together, you and thousands of other Stardust@Home participants will
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find the first pristine interstellar dust particles ever brought to
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Earth.</li>
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<li><a href="http://gtn.sonoma.edu/">Global Telescope Network</a> - The
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Global Telescope Network is a network of small telescopes around the
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world for the purpose of supporting the science of NASA and ESA high
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energy astrophysics missions, including XMM-Newton, Swift and
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GLAST.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.planetfour.org//">Planet Four</a> - Unearth
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secrets about Mars’ climate by scouring the Martian surface for distinct
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features and blotches.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="distributed-computing">Distributed Computing</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://theskynet.org/">theSkyNet</a> - Use your spare
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computing power to process radio astronomy data</li>
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<li><a href="http://lhcathome.web.cern.ch/">LHC@home</a> - By
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contributing spare processing capacity on your computer, people are able
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to run simulations of beam dynamics and particle collisions in the Large
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Hadron Collider’s giant detectors.</li>
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<li><a href="http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu">Einstein@Home</a> - An effort
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to discover new neutron stars (massive stars that have collapsed under
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their own weight) and hopefully directly detect one of Albert Einstein’s
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predictions for the first time: gravitational waves</li>
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<li><a
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href="http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/">Constellation</a> - A
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community that provides distributed computing power to aerospace
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research projects that might not otherwise have access to
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supercomputers</li>
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<li><a href="http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/">Milky Way@Home</a> -
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Milkyway@Home uses the BOINC platform to harness volunteered computing
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resources, creating a highly accurate three dimensional model of the
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Milky Way galaxy using data gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky
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Survey.</li>
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<li><a href="http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/">SETI@Home</a> - SETI
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(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a scientific area whose
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goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="telescopes">Telescopes</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a
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href="http://www.chabotspace.org/visit/telescopeworkshop.asp/">Telescop
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Makers’ Workshop</a> - Telescope Makers’ Workshop is an all-volunteer
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group committed to helping people build their own telescopes</li>
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<li><a href="http://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/">Radio JOVE</a> - The Radio
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JOVE project is a hands-on inquiry-based educational project that allows
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students, teachers and the general public to learn about radio astronomy
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by building their own radio telescope from an inexpensive kit and/or
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using remote radio telescopes through the internet</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="misc-cool-sites">Misc & Cool Sites</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://space.stackexchange.com/">StackExchange Space
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Exploration</a> - A network of questions and answers around Space
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Exploration.</li>
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<li><a href="http://spacehack.org/">SpaceHack</a> - A directory of ways
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to participate in space exploration.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="other-space-related-lists-at-github">Other space-related lists
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at GitHub</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a
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href="https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books">Awesome
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space books</a> - a list of mostly offline books on spaceflight and
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science.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="android-apps">Android apps</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a
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href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rayan.spaceiss">ISS
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Tracker</a> - An android app showing the actual position of the
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International Space Station (ISS), with also the astronauts inside it
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and the news</li>
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</ul>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/elburz/awesome-space">space.md
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Github</a></p>
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