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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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