Specific+Astronauts

This page explains the steps that scientists took to allow for human space exploration. Through the experiemental orbits with pet astronauts, we allowed for safe, well planned human missions. Also this page gives information on specific astronauts and thier contributions to space history. _ **Website:** [] Spacetoday.org has a very thorough write up on ALL the animals that were first used to pave the way for manned space flight, including ones that were lost in space. It explains the trasnition for suborbital to orbital flights that allowed for a more clear picture of making human orbits possible. I would rate this site as PG since it does involve what some would see as animal cruelty. The human form of space flyers can be found on the same site at the following link. []
 * Animals in space **
 * Editor: Greg Smyers **
 * Date Read: 3/16/2009 **
 * Editor: Jennifer Chivers **
 * Updated: 5/16/2011 **
 * Audience: Teens and Adults **
 * Author: [] **

**Website:** [] The Animal Astronauts Homepage! The Space Physics Research Group at the University of Minnesota named its computers after famous animals in space, so they thought it might be neat to learn a little bit more about these early space travellers, in doing so they created this site. Ham Space has listed and outlined all animals and thier missions. I would rate this site as my second favorite.
 * Editor: Greg Smyers **
 * Date Read: 3/18/2009 **
 * Editor: Jennifer Chivers **
 * Updated: 5/16/2011 **
 * Audience: Teens and Adults **
 * Author: [] **

** Date Read: 3/18/2009 **

 * Editor: Jennifer Chivers **
 * Updated: 5/16/2011 **

** Website: ** []
This is a continuing education site that has information on some of the animal flights. Although this site has some good information it does not go into deep details nor does it list all animal flights. I would rate this as the least helpful site that is listed here. The main page is not very user friendly and the set up of the page is very unorganized compared to the other ones.

Website:**[]** On April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuir Gagarin became the first human in space. Many Americans forget this fact because of the Apollo Missions. This article was submitted on the NASA website and is very helpful in giving true information. This site is intended for readers of all ages.
 * Yuri Gagarin **
 * Editor: Greg Smyers **
 * Date Read: 3/16/2009 **
 * Editor: Jennifer Chivers **
 * Updated: 5/16/2011 **
 * Audience: **** All ages **
 * Author: ** ** NASA **

** Editor: Jennifer Chivers **

 * Updated: 5/16/2011 **

This website is just a definition of who he was and what he did I did not find more information on the top 20 sites
== I would like to dedicate this page to the men of Apollo1, who during a pre-launch test for Apollo 1, astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee died when a fire broke out in the cockpit of their spacecraft on January 27, 1967. May they rest in peace. ==
 * Apollo1 **
 * Astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee**

**Editor: Greg Smyers ** **Date Read: 3/16/2009 ** **Editor: Jennifer Chivers ** **Date Updated: 5/23/2011 ** **Audience: Teens and Adults ** **Author: **** Horst Prillinger **  **Website:** [] == **The link above is a good summary of the Apollo missions into space from Apollo 1-17. ** == == **Included in the sight is this Test Project information: **[|Apollo-Soyuz Test Project] ==

== **Editor: Greg Smyers ** == == **Date Read: 4/30/2009 ** == == **Editor: Jennifer Chivers ** == == **Date Updated: 5/23/2011 ** == == **Audience: Teens and adults ** == == **<span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat;">Author: ** **NASA** == == **<span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat;">Website: ****<span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; font-weight: normal;">[|**http://history.nasa.gov/Apollo204/**] ** == == **<span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; font-weight: normal;">This is the official NASA site and goes into good detail of the first Apollo mission and its tragic end. I think that this sight gives the best info available of the three posted. ** ==

**<span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat;">Editor: Greg Smyers ** **<span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat;">Date Read: 4/30/2009 ** **<span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat;">Audience: Teens and adults ** **<span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat;">Author: ****NASA <span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ff; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">[|Jim Dumoulin (dumoulin@titan.ksc.nasa.gov)] ** == **<span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat;">Website: ****<span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; font-weight: normal;">[|**http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-1/apollo-1.html**] ** == == **<span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; font-weight: normal;">This is the official NASA site and is a summary of the first Apollo mission and its tragic end. ** ==

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==  **Current Astronauts at the Space Station in 2011** Expedition 28 CrewAndrei Borisenko, Aleksandr Samokutyayev, Ron Garan, Sergei Volkov, Mike Fossum, Satoshi Furukawa ** Expedition 28 ** **Editor: Jennifer Chivers** **Date Read: 5/23/2011**    **Audience: Teens and Adults**   **Author: NASA**   **Website: []**    This is the International Space Station home page which describes all of the expeditions but the link I have provided is specifically Expedition 28. I think that this sight is the best information out there for the expeditions since it comes directly from NASA. **Andrei Borisenko (RSA)** **Editor: Jennifer Chivers**  **Date Read: 5/23/2011**   **Audience: Teens and Adults**   **Author: NASA**   **Biography:[]**   **Interview: []**   This is the offical crew bio from the NASA website it gives personal data, education, experience, and training information. Also linked above is a personal interview with Borisenko. **Aleksandr Samokutyayev****﻿ (RSA)** **Editor: Jennifer Chivers** **Date Read: 5/23/2011**   **Audience: Teens and Adults**   **Author: NASA**   **Biography: []**   **Interview: []**  This is the offical bio from the NASA website, it gives personal data, education, experience, and training information. Also linked is a personal interview with Samokutyayev. **Ron Garan (NASA)**      **Editor: Jennifer Chivers** **Date Read: 5/23/2011**    **Audience: Teens and Adults**   **Author: NASA**   **Biography:[]**   **Interview: []**  **Twitter: []** This is the official bio from the NASA website, it gives personal data, education, organizations, awards, special honors, experience, NASA experience, and space flight experience. Also linked is a personal interview, and his twitter page that you can follow if you have a twitter account.

**Sergei Volkov (RSA)** **Editor: Jennifer Chivers** **Date Read: 5/23/2011**   **Audience: Teens and Adults**   **Author: NASA**   **Biography: []**   **Interview: []**   This is the official biography from the NASA sight and includes personal data, education, awards, experience, spaceflight trainning, and spaceflight experience. Also linked is an interview with Volkov.

**Mike Fossum (NASA Astronaut)** **Editor: Jennifer Chivers** **Date Read: 5/23/2011**   **Audience: Teens and Adults**   **Author: NASA**   **Biography: []**   **Interview: []**   This is the official bio from the NASA sight and includes personal data, education, special honors, experience, NASA experience, and spaceflight experience. Also linked is an interview with Fossum.

**Satoshi Furukawa (JAXA Astronaut)** **Editor: Jennifer Chivers** **Date Read: 5/23/2011**   **Audience: Teens and Adults**   **Author: NASA**   **Biography: []**   **Interview: []**  This is the official bio from the NASA sight and includes personal data, education, experience, and NASA experience. Also linked is an interview with Furukawa.