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Organizational Histories
Astronautics and Space (general)
Rockets and
Rocket Propulsion
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People and Memoirs
Atomic/Nuclear Programs - History and Memoirs
Space and Rockets in
Foreign Countries
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Corporate and Organizational
Histories
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Aerojet: The Creative Company,
Aerojet History Group,
1995 (ISBN 0-9659769-0-4)
T.D. Crouch,
Rocketeers and Gentlemen Engineers: A
History of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ...
and What Came Before, AIAA, 2006
A.J. Dunar and S. Waring,
Power to Explore. A History of
Marshall Space Flight Center 1960-1990,
NASA, 1999
D. Dyer,
TRW: Pioneering Technology and Innovation
Since 1900, Harvard Business
School Press, Boston, Mass., 1998
M. Gruntman,
Blazing the Trail. The Early History of Spacecraft
and Rocketry, AIAA, 2004
R.S. Kraemer
and V. Wheelock,
Rocketdyne: Powering Humans into Space,
AIAA, 2006
R.D. Launius,
NASA: A History of The U.S. Civil Space Program, Krieger,
Malabar, Fla., 1994
J.E. Lewis,
Spy Capitalism: Itek and the CIA,
Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, CT, 2002
R.A. McDonald (ed.),
Beyond Expectations - Building an American National Reconnaissance
Capability: Recollections of the
Pioneers and Founders of National Reconnaissance,
ASPRS, 2002
B.L.R. Smith,
The RAND Corporation,
Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1966
F.H. Winter,
Prelude to Space Age: the Rocket Societies,
1924-1940, Smithsonian
Institution Press, Washington, DC, 1983
Astronautics and
Space (general)
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D.R. Baucom,
The Origins of SDI, 1944-1983,
University Press of Kansas, 1992
W.E. Burrows,
This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age,
1998.
A. R. Curtis, ed.,
Space Almanac,
Gulf Publishing, 1992
D.H. DeVorkin,
Science with a Vengeance,
Springer-Verlag, New York, 1992
C.S. Gillmor and
J.R. Spreiter,eds., Discovery of the Magnetosphere, AGU, 1997
M. Gruntman,
Blazing the Trail. The Early History of Spacecraft
and Rocketry, AIAA, 2004
M. Gruntman,
From
Astronautics to Cosmonautics, BookSurge, North Charleston, SC, 2007
A.G. Haley,
Rocketry and Space Exploration,
Van Nostrand, Princeton, NJ, 1958
T.A. Heppenheimer,
Countdown, A History of Space Flight,
Wiley and Sons, 1997
L.M. Krauss,
The Physics of Star Trek, Harper
Collins, 1995
C.G. Lasby,
Project Paperclip,
Atheneum, NY, 1971
D.
Lasser, The Conquest of Space, Apogee Books, 2002. (Reprint
of a classic 1931 book)
J.M. Logsdon (ed.),
Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in
the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program: Vol. 1: Organizing for
Exploration
Vol.1,
Washington, DC, 1996
J.M. Logsdon (ed.),
Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in
the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program: Vol. 2,
Washington, DC, 1996
J.M. Logsdon (ed.),
Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in
the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program: Vol. 3, Using Space,
Washington, DC, 1996
J.M. Logsdon (ed.),
Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in
the History of the United States Civil Space Program, V. 4: Accessing
Space, Washington, DC, 1996
M. Okuda, D. Okuda, and D. Mirek,
The Star Trek Encyclopedia. A Reference Guide to the Future,
Pocket Books, 1994
G.K. O'Neill,
The High Frontier
M. Rycroft,
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Space,
Cambridge University Press, 1990
W. Von Braun, F. I. Ordway III, D. Dooling,
Space Travel. A History,
Harper and Row, 1995
F.H. Winter and F.R. van der
Linden, 100 Years of Flight, A
Chronicle of Aerospace History, 1903-2003,
AIAA, 2003
Rockets and Rocket
Propulsion
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J. Baar and W. Howard,
Polaris! The Concept & Creation of a New and Mighty Weapon,
Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1960
R.E. Bilstein,
Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of
the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles
J.L. Chapman,
Atlas: The Story of a Missile,
Harper and Brothers, New York, 1960
J.N. Gibson,
Navaho Missile Project: The Story of the "Know-How"
Missile of American Rocketry, Schiffer
Military/Aviation History, 1996
D. Graham,
High Frontier. A Strategy for National Survival,
1983
D. E. Graves,
Sir William Congreve and the Rocket Red Glare,
Museum Restoration Service, 1989
C.M. Green and M. Lomask,
Vanguard: A History,
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington,
DC, 1971
M. Gruntman,
Blazing the Trail. The Early History of
Spacecraft and Rocketry, AIAA,
2004
J. Hartt,
The Mighty Thor: Missile in Readiness,
Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1961
T.A. Heppenheimer,
The Space Shuttle Decision, 1965-1972. History of
the Space Shuttle, Vol.1, Smithsonian
Institution Press
T.A. Heppenheimer,
Development of the Space Shuttle, 1972-1981. History of
the Space Shuttle, Vol.2, Smithsonian
Institution Press, 2002
J. W. Herrick and E. Burgess, editors,
Rocket Encyclopedia,
Aero Publishers, 1959
R.S. Kraemer
and V. Wheelock,
Rocketdyne: Powering Humans into Space,
AIAA, 2006
R.D. Launius
and D.R. Jenkins (eds.), To Reach the
High Frontier. A History of the U.S. Launch Vehicles,
Univ. of Kentucky Press, Lexington, KY, 2002
A. Lawrie,
Saturn,
Collector's Guide Publishing, 2005
D. Millard,
The Black Arrow Project: A History of a
Satellite Launch Vehicle and Its Engines,
Science Museum, London, 2001
J. Neufeld,
The Development of Ballistic Missiles
in the United States Air Force, 1945–1960,
U.S. Air Force, Washington, DC, 1990
H. Noordung,
The Problems of Space Travel. The Rocket
Motor, translation, NASA SP-4026,
NASA, Washington, DC, 1995
F.I. Ordway III and R.C.
Wakeford, International Missile and
Spacecraft Guide, McGraw–Hill,
New York, 1960
M.W. Rosen,
The Viking Rocket Story,
Harper & Brothers, New York, 1955
G.P. Sutton,
History of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines, AIAA,
2006
P.J.
Turchi, editor, Propulsion Techniques: Action and Reaction, AIAA,
1998
C. Walker with J. Powell,
Atlas: The Ultimate Weapon. By Those Who Built It,
Apogee Books, 2005
K.P. Werrell,
The Evolution of the Cruise Missile,
Air University Press, 1985
F.H. Winter,
The First Golden Age of Rocketry,
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995
Spacecraft
and Space Systems
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W.R.
Corliss, Scientific Satellites, NASA
SP-133, Washington, DC, 1967
W.R.
Corliss, Spacecraft Tracking, NASA
EP-55, Washington, DC, 1969
C.S. Draper, W. Wrigley, and
J. Hovorka, Inertial Guidance,
Pergamon, New York, 1960
M. Gruntman,
Blazing the Trail. The Early History of
Spacecraft and Rocketry, AIAA,
2004
E.G. Hall,
Journey to the Moon. The History of the
Apollo Guidance Computer, AIAA,
1996
T.J. Kelly,
Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo
Lunar Module
J.E. Lewis,
Spy Capitalism: Itek and the CIA,
Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, CT, 2002
D. H. Martin,
Communication Satellites, 1958-1995,
The Aerospace Corporation, May 1996
D. MacKenzie,
Inventing Accuracy: an Historical
Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance,
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993
J.T.
Richelson, America's Space Sentinels:
DSP Satellites and National Security,
Univ. Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 1999
J. Stoff,
Building Moonships : The Grumman Lunar
Module, Arcadia, 2004
W. Von
Braun, The Mars Project
D.J. Whalen, The
Origins of Satellite Communications: 1945-1965, Smithsonian Institution
Press, Washington, DC, 2002
People and
Memoirs
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N.R. Augustine,
Augustine's Laws, AIAA, 1983
J.
Cornwell, Hitler's Scientists. Science, War, and the Devil's
Pact, Penguin, 2003
W.
Dornberger, V-2,
Viking Press, New York, 1954
R.H. Goddard,
The Papers of Robert H. Goddard, edited by
E.C. Goddard and G.E. Pendray, Vol. I: 1898–1924,
McGraw–Hill, New York, 1970
M. Gruntman,
Blazing the Trail. The Early History of
Spacecraft and Rocketry, AIAA,
2004
M. Gruntman,
From
Astronautics to Cosmonautics, BookSurge, North Charleston, SC, 2007
J. Harford, Korolev, John
Wiley and Sons, 1997
D.K. Huzel,
Peenemünde to Canaveral,
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1962
J.R.
Killian, Jr., Sputnik, Scientists,
and Eisenhower, MIT Press, 1977
G. Kranz,
Failure is not an Option, Mission
Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond,
Simon and Schuster, 2000
C.L.
"Kelly" Johnson with M. Smith, Kelly. More Than My Share of It
All, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989
J.B. Medaris
and A. Gordon, Countdown for
Decision, Putnam, New York, 1960
S. Ramo,
The Business of Science,
Hill and Wang, New York, 1988
B.R.
Rich and L. Janos, Skunk Works. A Personal Memoir of My Years at
Lockheed, Little, Brown, and Co., 1994
E. Stuhlinger and F. I. Ordway III,
Wernher von Braun, Crusader for Space: A Biographical Memoir, Krieger,
Malabar, Fla., 1994, 1996
T. von Karman with L. Edson,
The Wind and Beyond,
Little, Brown and Co., 1967
Atomic/Nuclear Programs - History and Memoirs
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J.
Bernstein (annotated by), Hitler's Uranium Club. The Secret
Recordings at Farm Hall, Copernicus Books, 2001
H.A.
Bethe, The Road from Los Alamos, Simon and Schuster, 1991
J.
Cornwell, Hitler's Scientists. Science, War, and the Devil's
Pact, Penguin, 2003
L. Fermi,
Atoms in the Family. My Life with Enrico Fermi, University of
Chicago Press, 1961
B.
Goldschmidt, Atomic Rivals. A Candid Memoir of Rivalries Among
the Allies Over the Bomb, Rutgers University Press, 1990
S.A. Goudsmit,
Alsos, AIP, 1983
L.M. Groves,
Now It Can Be Told. The Story of the Manhattan Project, Da Capo
Press, 1983
R.G. Hewlett and
O.E. Anderson, Jr., The New World, 1939/1946, Vol.1, A History of
the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Pennsylvania State
University Press, 1962
D. Holloway,
Stalin and the Bomb: the Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956,
Yale University Press, 1994
L. Johnson and D.
Schaffer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The First Fifty Years,
University of Tennessee Press, 1994
W. Lanouette with
B. Silard, Genius in the Shadows. A Biography of Leo Szilard, The
Man Behind the Bomb, University of Chicago Press, 1992
R. Rhodes,
The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Simon and
Schuster, 1995
R. Rhodes,
Dark Sun. The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, Simon and
Schuster, 1996
A.
Sakharov, Memoirs, Alfred A. Knopf, 1990
G.T.
Seaborg with B.S. Loeb, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Test Ban,
University of California Press, 1981
E.
Segre, Enrico Fermi Physicist, University of Chicago Press,
1970
R.
Serber, The Los Alamos Primer, University of California
Press, 1992
H.D.
Smyth, Atomic Energy for Military Purposes. Official Report on
the Development of the Atomic Bomb Under the Auspices of the United
States Government, 1940-1945, Stanford University Press, 1989
L.L.
Strauss, Men and Decisions, Doubleday, 1962
E.
Teller with J. Shoolery, Memoirs. A Twentieth-Century Journey in
Science and Politics, Perseus Publishing, 2001
S.M.
Ulam, Adventures of a Mathematician, University of California
Press, 1991
H.F. York, The Advisors. Oppenheimer, Teller, and the Superbomb,
Stanford University Press, 1976
D.
Zimmerman, Top Secret Exchange. The Tizard Mission and the
Scientific War, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996
Space
and Rockets in Foreign Countries
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C. Carlier
and M. Gilli, The First Thirty Years
at CNES, La Documentation
française/CNES, Paris, 1994 (English edition, 1995)
I. Chang, Thread of the Silkworm,
Basic Books, New York, 1995
J. Johnson-Freese,
The Chinese Space program: A Mystery
within a Maze, Krieger, 1998
V.P. Glushko,
Development of Rocketry and Space Technology in the USSR (in English), Novosti
Press, Moscow, 1973
M. Gruntman,
Blazing the Trail. The Early History of
Spacecraft and Rocketry, AIAA,
2004
M. Gruntman,
From
Astronautics to Cosmonautics, BookSurge, North Charleston, SC, 2007
R. Hall and
D.J. Shayler,
The Rocket Men: Vostok and Voskhod.
The first Soviet Manned Spaceflights,
Springer, 2001
R. Hall and
D.J. Shayler,
Soyuz: A Universal Spacecraft,
Springer, 2003
J. Harford, Korolev, John
Wiley and Sons, 1997
B. Harvey,
The Japanese and Indian Space
Programmes: Two Roads Into Space,
Springer-Verlag, New York, 2000
D. Millard,
The Black Arrow Project: A History of
a Satellite Launch Vehicle and Its Engines,
Science Museum, London, 2001
H. Massey
and M.O. Robins, History of the
British Space Science, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, England, 1986
P. Morton,
Fire Across the Desert,
Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1989, 1997
A.A. Siddiqi,
Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the space race, 1945-1974,
NASA, 2000
A.A. Siddiqi,
Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge,
University Press of Florida, 2003
Corona Space Reconnaissance System
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M. Gruntman,
Blazing the Trail. The Early History of
Spacecraft and Rocketry, AIAA,
2004
F.C.E. Oder,
J.C. Fitzpatrick, and P.E. Worthman,
The Corona Story, National
Reconnaissance Office, 1987
R.A. McDonald (ed.),
Beyond Expectations - Building an American National Reconnaissance
Capability: Recollections of the
Pioneers and Founders of National Reconnaissance,
ASPRS, 2002
C. Peebles,
The Corona Project. America's First Spy Satellite,
Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 1997
K.C. Ruffner
(ed.), Corona: America's First
Satellite Program, Central
Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC, 1995
V-2 (A-4)
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D.H. DeVorkin, Science With A Vengeance, Springer-Verlag,
1992
M. Gruntman,
Blazing the Trail. The Early History of
Spacecraft and Rocketry, AIAA,
2004
D.K.
Huzel,
Peenemünde to Canaveral,
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1962
G.P. Kennedy,
Vengeance Weapon 2,
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington,
DC, 1983
C.G. Lasby,
Project Paperclip,
Atheneum, NY, 1971
M. Middlebrook,
The Peenemünde Raid,
Cassel & Co., London, 1988
M.J. Neufeld, The Rocket and the Reich. Peenemunde
and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era,
The Free Press, 1995
F.I. Ordway III and M.R.
Sharpe, The Rocket Team,
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1982
E. Stuhlinger and F.I. Ordway
III, Wernher von Braun. Crusader for
Space, Krieger, Malabar, FL, 1996
Space in Art
and Literature ("classics" only)
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M. Gruntman,
Blazing the Trail. The Early History of
Spacecraft and Rocketry, AIAA,
2004
E.E. Hale,
Brick Moon.
R. Miller, The Dream Machines. An Illustrated
History of the Spaceship in Art, Science and Literature, Krieger
Publishing Co., 1993
R. Miller,
F.C. Durant III, and M. Schuetz, The
Art of Chesley Bonestell.
R.D. Launius
and B. Ulrich, NASA and the
Exploration of Space: With Works from the Nasa Art Collection.
F.I. Ordway
III, Visions of Spaceflight: Images
from the Ordway Collection,
Publishers Group West , 2001
M.H. Schuetz,
A Chesley Bonestell Space Art Chronology,
Universal Publishers, 1999
J. Verne,
From the Earth to the Moon.
J. Verne,
Round the Moon.
Space
Movies ("classics" only)
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Apollo
13: The Real Story
Buck Rogers
(1939) - DVD
The
Liftoff! Success and Failure on the Launch Pad - DVD
The Mighty
Saturns - Saturn V - DVD
Moon
Race-History of Apollo (1998) - VHS
Nukes in
Space - Rainbow Bombs (1999) - DVD
The Right
Stuff - DVD
Star Trek: Original Series - DVD
Star Trek: Next Generation Series - DVD
Star Trek:
Voyager Series - DVD
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Series - DVD
Star
Trek - The Motion Pictures Collection (2002) - DVD
Star Trek -
The Motion Pictures DVD Collection (2001) - DVD
Star Wars
Trilogy - DVD
Tom Corbett
Space Cadet, Vol. 1 (1950) - VHS
Tom Corbett-Space Cadet, Vol. 2 (1950)
- VHS
Tomorrowland (Disney's classic of 1950s)
- DVD
The War of
the Worlds (1953)
- DVD
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