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 First of all, welcome to our ThinkQuest website, Space Colonization: Expansion into the Unknown. With this website, we hope we can get you excited about spaceflight, research, development and maybe even space colonization. We also hope that by surfing our website, you'll increase your knowledge on the various subjects contained on this website, without getting bored. If you are getting bored with the influx of information, we have thought about that too. Just click on the menu button labelled "Diversions" and you'll be taken to a page with links to all kinds of fun stuff related to space travel, research and colonization. Finally, for those teachers that wish to incorporate the Internet into their lesson plans (and we applaud you!), we have included a section labelled Educational Resources ("Education" on the menu bar) with links to other websites designed to be used in school. Now something about why we made this website. This website is made for the ThinkQuest contest, which is an international contest in which students from all over the world form teams to make educational websites. Follow this link to read about ThinkQuest's mission. The teams compete for over $2 million in scholarship and cash prizes, so if you're between 12 and 19 years of age and you would like to take part too, go to the ThinkQuest website [http://www.thinkquest.org], and sign up for ThinkQuest 2000!   Site best viewed in 800x600 or 1024x768 in Internet Explorer 4+ or Netscape 4+  |
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8/15/99 - Cassini Flyby Cassini has performed another flawless maneuver and will therefore perform a flyby of Earth on August 17. The flyby will increase Cassini's speed so that it can make the journey to its destination: Saturn. Full story |
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Space Future Space Future is for everyone who would like to travel in space. Their direct goal is to make space travel tickets as normal as airline tickets. If you would like to make a trip into orbit, read what Space Future has to say about it! |
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