One of the most popular Internet Web sites of the
federal government now offers links to a variety of aerospace
news and information in Spanish.
“NASA produces a lot of important information for a large and
diverse audience,” said NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe.
“Organizing and offering access from our primary Internet
site to the Spanish-language material we produce reflects the
agency’s interest in and commitment to our growing Hispanic
audience.”
The primary web portal for NASA, www.nasa.gov, regularly
receives more than 650,000 hits a week and offers links to a
variety of agency news and information produced by field
centers across the country.
NASA’s initial offerings in Spanish include a mix of project-
specific sites and general information about NASA programs.
Selected sites include:
* Amesnews, http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov/index_span.html,
provides information from NASA’s Ames Research Center,
located near San Francisco. The center researches
aeronautics, astrobiology and supercomputing.
* ciencia@nasa, http://ciencia.nasa.gov, is the Spanish-
language companion to NASA’s award-winning science@nasa site,
featuring stories from all fields of science, aeronautics and
aerospace.
* El Programa Milenio Nuevo,
http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/espanssol.html, features NASA’s New
Millennium Program, which develops and tests advanced
technology for space flight.
* Spaceplace, http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/espanol,
features spacey things to make and do for kids.
* Stennis es, http://www.ssc.nasa.gov/about/stennis/stennis-
es.html, is an online introduction to NASA’s Stennis Space
Center, which conducts propulsion testing and remote-sensing
research on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
As additional sites go online, they’ll be added to a
comprehensive list of Spanish-language Web sites being
managed on the agency’s primary homepage. Internet users can
find links to all these sites at:
http://www.nasa.gov/hqpao/espanol.html
You can find a Spanish version of this release at:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2002/02-095s.txt
