Space Links

"April 12, 1961: Gagarin Yuriy Alekseevich performed the first space flight in the world onboard the Vostok space vehicle-satellite."
Read all about him here.

NASA - the US Space Agency. Lots of information about satellites, space, stars and planets. Plus games to play and things to make.

The Hubble Space Telescope has been taking amazing pictures of deep space for ages. They're all on this website, and you can download them to your computer too.

This is the JPL Education Gateway. Their primary mission is the robotic exploration of the Solar System. On their site you can find out all about the planets and the spacecraft that visit them.

ESA are the European Space Agency, and this is their kid's site. Lots of information about the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn. There are also news pages, games and all sorts of other useful stuff.

In 1998, the first two modules of the International Space Station were launched and joined together in orbit. Other modules soon followed and the first crew arrived in 2000.