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• - Follow the biweekly communications of two LEGO minifigures who are flying to Mars as part of the Mars Exploration Rover mission set to land in January 2004 on the red planet.
  
• - About the usefulness of this technology, with a section on space probes and satellites, Canada's role, and some pictures.
  
• - A 3D game-like computer interface that allows students to virtually explore remote places like Mars and other planets. Students assume the roles of space scientists in the exploration of these locations from their own classrooms.
  
• - A timeline of space exploration from the 1957 launch of Sputnik I to the present time. Includes links to other sites.
  
• - Includes facts about launches, satellites, space stations, and astronaut training.
  
• - Four stories about the Cassini/Huygens Mission to Saturn/Titan. Explains the spacecraft names, what's cool about Saturn, and what will happen at Saturn.
  
• - Timeline of missions to Earth's moon and the planets, by year, from the NASA Data Center.
  
• - Offers historical facts about the space race between the U.S. and Russia and how the cooperation of the two countries thereafter helped build an international space station.
  
• - The lead U.S. center for robotic exploration of the solar system.
  
• - Drive a LEGO Rover over the internet at a series of Mars Stations.