Brian Dunbar/Bob Jacobs
Headquarters, Washington                  May 22, 2002
(Phone: 202/358-0873/1600)

RELEASE: 02-95

NASA HOMEPAGE OFFERS LINKS TO NASA EN ESPANOL: 
SPANISH LANGUAGE CONTENT

     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

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You can find a Spanish version of this release at:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2002/02-095s.txt