The Space and Astronomy CDROM is a collection of images, text files and software related to space exploration and astronomy. Educators, students and space enthusiasts will enjoy this disc. You can run this disc on both PC compatible and Macintosh computers. The 1000 image files on the Space and Astronomy CDROM will dazzle your eye. There are images of the earth, the planets, the stars, astronauts and spacecraft. Most of these images are from NASA. You will see our solar system from the vantage point of deep space probes. You will see portraits of space shuttle crews and the hardware that makes their missions possible. The 5000 text files included (and fully readable directly from the disc) will fill your mind with detailed accounts of space missions and comprehensive data on astronomic topics. These files include information on asteroids, NASA news bulletins, NASA press releases since 1962, the Usenet sci.space archives from the Internet, and more. A collection of astronomy and space-related shareware rounds out the Space and Astronomy CDROM. The disc's handy viewer program lets you browse the disc viewing images, reading documents, and unzipping program files. The Space and Astronomy CDROM is BBS-ready, with index files for RBBS, opus, PCBoard, Spitfire, Maximus, and Wildcat BBS software.