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We are big fans of aviation and especially, space flight. This web site started out being a photo album of a couple of trips to Kennedy Space Center (which we are still working on!) but the News section has "taken over". The main focus is manned space flight - historical stuff as well as Space Shuttle missions, Space Stations (Mir and ISS), and rocket launches. We'll cover major astronomical events (comets, etc) and space science, too.

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- Tony Fernandez, Editor

Update Log -

13-14 July 1999 - Processed first batch of KSC tour photos.
16 July - Began work on website.
17-18 July - Published initial website in time for Apollo 11 30th Anniversary.
25 July - Made separate News page out of Links We Like (LWL) page.
26 July - Did more photo processing - 3 more shots that haven't been published yet.
28 July - Added up-to-the-minute news on historic STS-93 Shuttle mission.
1 August 1999 - Added this "About" page. Added email link to home page.
15 Aug - Moved Eclipse links to separate page.
17 Aug - Added hit counter.
21 Aug - Added GPS page to cover GPS1K bug.
27 Aug - Sort of opened up the Gift Shop by adding a link to Amazon.com.
29 Aug - Added CDnow link to Gift Shop.
12 Sep 1999 - Added Fatbrain to the Gift Shop. Improved site navigation by adding buttons at bottom of pages and links to top of page.
25 Sep - Moved older, Shuttle-specific stories from the News page to the Shuttle page to make the News page a little quicker.
8 Oct 1999 - Added link to NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day on main navigator.
7 Nov 1999 - Broke News page into current quarter and archive for previous stories, to make the News page load faster. Moved Eclipse page under the Archive. Stripped down this log to only cover changes to the site itself (not every News update!).
16 Dec 1999 - First use of screenshots from NASA TV. It's about time we spruced up the old place!
18 Dec - First "live" coverage of a launch (EOS Terra) as it happens - we even scooped CNN!
19 Dec - First "live," minute-by-minute coverage of a Space Shuttle launch (STS-103).
2 Jan 2000 - Added Search page.
22 Jan - Added Guest Book.
25 Jan - Made an Archive2 page for news from Oct - Dec 1999, permitting current News page to load faster.
16 Feb 2000 - Temporarily removed Guest Book due to technical difficulties.
22 Feb - Last posting to the old "doggydance" URL.
7 Mar 2000 - Registered NEWSFROMSPACE.COM domain.
11 Mar - Started site redesign (offline), making up a new FrontPage theme.
22 Apr 2000 - Resurrected the site under www.newsfromspace.com.
2 May 2000 - Added Space Day link to left navigator.
7 May - Changed look of main page, making it more symmetrical. Added scrolling marquee to main page.
20 May - Worked with style sheets for link properties; fixed display problem with Netscape Navigator browser.
June 2000 - Added more Archive pages.
15 Jul 2000 - Added Java news ticker linking back to UniSci for science news.
15 Aug 2000 - Added Archive 6 page for July's news.
22 Aug - Made lots of additions to the Virtual Gift Shop.
5 Sep 2000 - Reorganized the Photo Tour page, in preparation for a new batch of photos.
7 Sep - Customized our "Favorites" icon, so if you drag our URL to your desktop, a little lunar lander (no, really!) appears instead of the generic IE icon.
8 Sep - Extensive coverage of Space Shuttle mission STS-106. Started use of in-line images in News pages.
10 Sep - Added Archive 7 page for August's news.
14 Sep - There was so much coverage (including photos) of the STS-106 mission to the ISS, that it was becoming difficult to find non-Shuttle news. We decided that each Shuttle mission that we cover in-depth should have its own subdirectory, summary page, and news page, leaving the main news page for other items.
17 Sep - Did a similar reorg for STS-99 and STS-103 (breaking them out from the old Shuttle page), and STS-92.
24 Sep - The main page counter exceeds 1000! Not a lot of visitors compared to other sites, but a milestone nonetheless.
29 Sep - The "official" debut of the STS-92 Mission Journal.
3 Oct 2000 - Added Archive 8 page for September's news.
27 Oct - The debut of the STS-97 Mission Journal.
1 Nov 2000 - Added Archive 9 page for October's news. Main counter is over 1200.
20 Dec 2000 - Added Archive 10 page for November's news. Main counter is over 1500.
All Through 2001 - Kept adding to the site - especially for Shuttle launches.
25 Jan 2002 - Joined WebRing to participate in a community of Space websites.
27 Jan 2002 - Added a separate Electronics page to the Space Shop.

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