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