Links of recommended websites to explore

Columbia Space Science Learning Center
Link to Downey's "Memorial" learning center highlighting the center's plans, agenda, and future.

The Space Island Group.
Visit the future of living in space!
From Solar Satellites as a means for clean energy to the development of space habitation, exploration, and tourism.

A NASA/JPL/Caltech spyglass on the cosmos. Find a mixture of space-related images and programs which will help you visualize the Solar System. and NASA space missions using computer graphics.

The Project Apollo Archive
"Earth bound history has ended. Universal history has begun."

Space Images Archive
Most comprehensive archive of images yet!
Planets, asteroids, comets, spacecraft, shuttle, eclipses, space art etc.

NASA
Search all the NASA websites from one location!
Multimedia Gallery.

STS 1 Launch

Boeing History Home page
This site describes the legacy of The Boeing Company. It tracks the development of the companies that merged to become a single enterprise as the twentieth century ended.

The Space Frontier Foundation
The Foundation is an organization of people dedicated to opening the space frontier to human settlement as soon as possible.

The Hubble Project
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Not since Galileo turned his telescope towards the heavens in 1610 has any event so changed our understanding of the universe as the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Earthrise, Columbia 2003

The Team and the Tools- Chariots for Apollo
Harrison A. Storms, Jr. (widely known as "Stormy"), Vice President of North American and President of its Space and Information Systems Division….

The Apollo Saturn Reference Page
Awesome resource site with pictures and info concerning the Apollo and Saturn programs.

Apollo 4 launch

Discovery Science Center- California
A great science and discovery environment sponsored by Taco Bell. Recently received a Boeing Delta III rocket  on display.

The Apollo Mission Tragedy
The whole story…..1967.

ECHO- Exploring history online.
Virtual center of Science and Technology

The Downey Patriot Newspaper
Home of Apollo

"After describing his upbringing, education, and work at Wright Field beginning in 1928, Atwood (b. October 26, 1904) reviews his work for Douglas Aircraft in the early 1930s and his acceptance of the position of chief engineer at North American shortly thereafter. He then discusses North American's wartime efforts; its early post-war work on airplanes, rockets, and missiles; projects beginning in the 1950s for the USAF and NASA, including Saturn, Minuteman, and Apollo; post-war changes in organizational structure; contracting procedures and problems with various federal agencies; the responsibilities and ramifications from the Apollo 204 fire; his promotions at North American; and relations over the years with Arthur Raymond, Dutch Kindleberger, James Webb, Stan Smithson, Fred Black, and others."     More?

Quick Info about
Aviation and
Aerospace History in Downey:

Downey Aviator

Columbia Memorial Space Science
Learning Center Info

Aviation History
Archive Project

Cradle of the Cosmic Age-
A comprehensive
history of the Downey NASA site

North American P-51 Mustang

Historical Links

The Acorn Days:
Early greats
of aviation

US Air Force
Museum

Vultee XA-19

NASA Plant 1:
Timeline

WWII U.S. Fighter Plane
Manufacturers

North American
NA-73

NAA P-51 Mustang

NAA F-86 Sabre Jet

Donald W. Douglas

NASA Plant 1:
Timeline

Emsco Aircraft

S-II Program Team

Downey:
Space race center

Downey History

Downey Eagle
Archive

Downey California's
Columbia Memorial Space Science
Learning Center

Home

The Legacy

North American Aviation

Boeing Heritage 

Downey Aviator
     

President Reagan speaks at Rockwell in Downey.

More on the Aerospace Legacy Foundation

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