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Article: Out-of-this-world success: NASA's portal draws unprecedented crowds.(National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
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- October 1, 2004
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NASA's new Web portal strategy is bringing space up close and personal to millions of visitors. Children can drive a virtual rover on Mars. Adults can watch streaming, real-time video of important space events. Educators can adapt creative online lessons to teach American children. All of those audiences are benefiting from the millions of documents and archived photos taken from NASA's missions and events that are now available online.
NASA has completely restructured how it communicates to the public over the Web. In 2003, NASA turned its diverse 3,000 Web sites--comprising more than 2 million Web pages, thousands of databases and millions of online ...
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