NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

Many space activies center around large Government or International
Bureaucracies.  In this country that means NASA.  If you have basic
information requests: (e.g., general PR info, research grants, data,
limited tours, and ESPECIALLY SUMMER EMPLOYMENT (typically resumes should
be ready by Jan. 1, etc.), consider contacting the nearest NASA Center to
answer your questions. EMail typically will not get you any where, computers
are used by investigators, not PR people.  The typical volume of mail per
Center is a multiple of 10,000 letters a day.  Seek the Public Information
Office at one of the below, this is their job:

NASA Headquarters (NASA HQ)
Washington DC 20546

NASA Ames Research Center (ARC)
Moffett Field, CA 94035

Dryden Flight Research Facility [DFRF]
P. O. Box 273
Edwards, CA  93523

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Greenbelt, MD 20771
[Outside of Washington DC]

NASA Lewis Research Center (LeRC)
21000 Brookpark Rd.
Cleveland, OH 44135

NASA Johnson Manned Space Center (JSC)
Houston, TX 77058

NASA Kennedy Space Flight Center (KSC)
Titusville, FL 32899

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSC)
Huntsville, AL 35812

NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC)
Hampton, VA 23665
[Near Newport News, VA]

Not a NASA Center, but close enough:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory [JPL/CIT]
California Institute of Technology
4800 Oak Grove Dr.
Pasadena, CA 91109

There are other small facilities, but the above major Centers are set up
to handle public information requests.  They can send you tons of
information. Specific requests for software must go thru COSMIC at the
Univ. of Georgia, NASA's contracted software redistribution service.  You
can reach them at cosmic@uga.bitnet.  If this gives you problems, tell me.

NOTE:  Foreign nationals requesting information must go through their
Embassies in Washington DC.  These are facilities of the US Government and
are regarded with some degree of economic sensitivity. Centers cannot
directly return information without high Center approval. Allow at least 1
month for clearance.  This includes COSMIC.

EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY        (O) 202/488-4158
955 L'Enfant Plaza S.W.,
Washington, D.C.  20024

Arianespace Headquarters
Boulevard de l'Europe
B.P. 177
91006 Evry Cedex France

ARIANESPACE, INC. (O) 202/728-9075
1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 875
Washington, DC  20006

SPOT IMAGE CORPORATION           (FAX) 703/648-1813    (O) 703/620-2200
1857 Preston White Drive
Reston, VA 22091

National Space Development Agency (NASDA)
4-1 Hamamatsu-Cho, 2 Chome
Mina to-Ku, Tokyo 105, Japan

SOYUZKARTA
45 Vologradsij Pr.
Moscow 109125, USSR

SPACE COMMERCE CORPORATION (U.S. agent for Soviet launch services)
504 Pluto Drive
Colorado Springs, CO  80906