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Further Reading and References

© By Gary Agranat

Listed here are books and websites I used for reference. In particular, while I was in college years ago I read a number of the NASA history books when they first came out in hard-copy. The NASA history office has transcribed many of those books to their website (although they don't always include all the illustrations). I also used books I've kept from the 1960's and 70's from when I was a child. Besides that, I've also listed some interesting links that you can use to explore more.

Online

NASA Websites

• National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)
• Human Spaceflight Gallery
• NASA Headquarters History Office
• NASA Histories On-Line.
  I list some specific books below.
• Apollo Program Summary Report on PDF files.
• Sputnik and The Dawn of the Space Age.
• Friendship 7.
• 40th Aniversary of the Mercury 7 Astronauts.
• NASA Apollo 11 30th Anniversary.
• Earth Science Enterprise 40th Anniversary
• Great Images in NASA library
• NASA Glenn Research Center
• NASA Experimental Communications Satellites 1958-1995 Daniel R. Glover.
• Satellite Communications Tutorial for grades 7-12 by Dr. Regis Leonard.
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• National Space Science Data Center.
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) NASA / Cal Tech.
• JPL History
• Mission and Spacecraft Library
• NASA Johnson Space Center
• JSC Digital Image Collection
  Includes image archive for each of the U.S. manned programs.
• The Lunar Orbiter Program.
• The Space Educators' Handbook, Space Stamp Home Page
• NASA Kennedy Space Center
• NASA Historical Archive for Manned Missions
• NASA Kennedy Space Center Historical Archive
• NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
• NASA Marshall Space Flight Center History
• Looking Back at Apollo 17
• Wernher von Braun
• J-Track Satellite Tracking
  Watch the ground tracks of many current satellites and the manned missions. With a mouse click at any location you can show the next time the satellite will pass overhead.
• NASA Ames
• Ames Astrogram October 2003 NASA Ames 45th Aniversary special issue.

Online NASA Publications (Originally in Hardcopy)

• On the Moon with Apollo 16 NASA EP-95. 1972.
• Pioneer Odyssey 1977. SP-349.
• Apollo Expeditions to the Moon NASA SP-350.
• Apollo Over the Moon - A View From Orbit (#SP-362)
• A New Sun: The Solar Results from Skylab SP-402
• SKYLAB's Astronomy and Space Sciences SP-404. 1979.
• Atlas of Mercury NASA SP-423.
• The Voyage of Mariner 10 NASA SP-424. 1978.
• Project Mercury, A Chronology SP-4001. 1963.
• The Apollo Spacecraft - A Chronology NASA SP-4009.
• NASA Historical Data Book, Vol. III, Programs and Projects 1969-1978 NASA SP-4012.
• This New Ocean - A History of Project Mercury NASA SP-4201.
  
• On The Shoulders of Titans A History of Project Gemini NASA SP-4203.
• Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations NASA SP-4204, 1978. By Charles D. Benson and William Barnaby Faherty.
• Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft NASA SP-4205. By Courtney G. Brooks. James M. Grimwood and Loyd S. Swenson, Jr.
• Stages to Saturn, A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles SP-4206.
• Living and Working in Space - A History of Project Skylab SP-4208.
• Lunar Impact - A History of Project Ranger NASA SP-4210.
• Beyond the Atmosphere: Early Years of Space Science NASA SP-4211, 1980. Written by Homer Newell, former NASA Associate Administrator for Space Science.
• On Mars: Exploration of the Red Planet 1958-1978 NASA SP-4212, 1984. Written by Linda Ezell and Edward Ezell. Covers the Mariner, Voyager, and Viking projects.
• Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Explorations Missions NASA SP-4214, 1989. By William David Compton.
• Beyond The Ionosphere: Fifty Years of Satellite Communication NASA SP-4217.
• "Before This Decade is Out...." Personal Reflections on the Apollo Program NASA SP-4223.
• Uplink-Downlink, A History of the Deep Space Tracking Network, 1957-1997 NASA SP-4227. PDF file.
• Origins of NASA Names SP-4402.
• Liquid Hydrogen as a Propulsion Fuel, 1945-1959 by John L. Sloop. NASA SP-4404.
• SP-4901 Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter - Unmanned Space Project Management NASA SP-4901.
• Destination Moon: A History of the Lunar Orbiter Program NASA TM-3487.
• Enchanted Rendezvous - John C. Houbolt and the Genesis of the Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous Concept NASA history monograph.
• Project Apollo Annotated Bibliography
• Deep Space - A Chronology of Deep Space and Planetary Probes, 1958-2000. PDF file.
• Computers in Spaceflight -- The NASA Experience by James E. Tomayko

More Space Flight and History Websites

• National Air & Space Museum
• NASM Space History Division Artifact Collection Home Page
• Milestones of Flight
• The Space Race.
• Gallery 210--Apollo to the Moon
• John F. Kennedy Library and Museum
• Dr. Robert Goddard archives at Clark University
• Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
• Arthur C Clarke - 1945 Wireless World Article The Science Museum (UK).
• Life Magazine - A Giant Leap for Mankind From Sputnik to Man on the Moon.
• Why Land on the Moon by Robert Jastrow and Homer E. Newell. An article from August 1963 in the Atlantic Monthly magazine.
• Mariner IV - First Flyby of Mars, Some personal experiences by Bill Momsen.
• Caltech Archives Oral Histories Online - Interview with Norman H. Horowitz
  In 1965 Dr. Horowitz became chief of JPL's Bioscience section. He created one of the biology experiments (the pyrolytic release experiment) on board the Viking Mars landers. He describes his JPL experience in the second part of the interview. PDF file.
• Lunar Module, SpaceCraft Assembly & Test, Grumman Bethpage NY
• Apollo 8 Command Module Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
• Pieces of Science Franlin Institute. Sections about Apollo 8, Apollo 10 and the LM.
• The Apollo Guidance Computer Dibner Institute at MIT History of Recent Science and Technology Project.
• Zvi Har'El's Jules Verne Collection
• Tsiolkovsky museum
• Hermann Oberth Spaceflight Museum Feucht, Germany.
• Theodore Von Karmán Marco Casillas
• National Aviation Hall of Fame
• AIAA History of Flight
• From Stargazers to Starships by Dr. David P. Stern, NASA GSFC.
• Encyclopedia Astronautica Mark Wade.
• Spaceline
• Russian Aviation and Space Agency
• Russian Space Web by Anatoly Zak.
• Soviet Space Web Asif Siddiqi.
• 'Zarya' - Soviet and Russian Space Programmes
• Friends and Partners in Space (FPSPACE) Jennifer Green.
• Intro to Spaceflight / Russian Space History Dr. Lance K. Erickson. Embry Riddle University.
• Russian Space History Fall 2004. Dr. Lance K. Erickson. Embry Riddle University.
• Sven's Space Place -- Space history, Space radio tracking, and Space technology
• Animals in Space
• One Small Step - The Story of the Space Chimps by David Cassidy and One Small Step - The Story of the Space Chimps by Kristen Davy, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Student Projects. Fall 2001.
• Soviet Dogs in Space - Their Stories on Stamps by Ed Dietz
• Space -- The Final Frontier Rafael Martínez Ramón. (broken link)
  History of the Russian and American space programs through postal stamps.
• Foundations of Space Travel philately.com
• Space and Astronomy Stamps
  Has many stamps about early space history.
• Space.Com
• Lockheed Martin History
• NHK Science & Technology Research Labs
• The Evolution of TV, A Brief History of TV Technology in Japan
• Search for ET! ---Are Humans All Alone in the Universe JST Virtual Science Center (Japan).
  In English and Japanese. A children's website about the search for life in space. Most of this is about the solar system, and so includes presentations about some of the interplanetary missions, including the Viking to Mars.
• Channel 4 - Science UK
• Planetary weather probes
• Destination Mars
• Exploring Space Timeline with Flash
• AnnOnline online interviews
• Interview with David Greenspoon about Venus
• Interview with James Schefter about the space race.
• The Transit of Venus and the Quest for the Solar Parallax by David Sellers
• Transit of Venus by Chuck Bueter
• Beginner's Radio Propagation Primer AE4RV A.R.T.S. Club Technet
  About how the sun influences our ionosphere and how radio signals can bounce off the ionosphere so that they can be received around the planet. This was the principle way we communicated by radio around the world before satellites. This method is still in use. Cool presentation with flash. ( More information on my radio pages. )

Children's Space Books:

• Space Art in Children's books 1950's to 1970's
• Children's Space Books by Alexa Smith

Books Offline

• Space Vehicles by Kent Alexander. Michael Friedman Publishing Group. © 1989.
• Exploration of the Moon by Franklyn M. Branley. American Museum Science Books. © 1963.
• A First Book of Radio, From Marconi to the Space Age by Alden R. Carter. ©1987. Franklin Watts.
• Ignition, An Informal History of Liquid Propellants by John D. Clark. Rutgers University Press. © 1972.
• The Coming of the Space Age Edited by Arthur C. Clarke. Meredith Press. © 1967.
• The Promise of Space by Arthur C. Clarke. Harper & Row. © 1968.
• Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. © 1974.
• Liftoff, the Story of America's Adventure in Space by Michael Collins, illustrated by James Dean. © 1988. Gorve Press.
• Concise Encyclopedia of Astronautics by Thomas de Galiana. With Introduction by Willy Ley. English Language Edition, Wm. Collins Sons & Co., Glasgow and Follet Publishing Company, Chicago. © 1968.
• The First Book of the Moon by Carroll V. Glines, Col., U.S.A.F. Franklin Watts, Inc. © 1967.
• Venus Revealed by David Harry Greenspoon. Addison Wesley. © 1997. (The link includes some excerpts and images.)
• Americans to the Moon by Gene Gurney. Random House. © 1970.
• The First Small Step, Peterson's Book of Man in Space, Vol. 1, Ed. by Al Hall. Peterson Publishing. © 1974.
• Saturn V The Moon Rocket by William G. Holder. Julian Messner. © 1969.
• Robert H. Goddard, Pioneer of Space Research by Milton Lehman. © 1963, 1988. Da Capo Press.
• Events in Space by Willy Ley. © 1969. Popular Library.
• The Decision to Go to the Moon by Dr. John M. Logsdon. MIT Press. © 1970.
• On the Path of Venus by Lloyd Motz. Illustrated by Susan Detrich. © 1976. Pantheon Books.
• Spaceflight: A Smithsonian Guide by Valerie Neil, Catherine S. Lewis and Frank H. Winter. Macmillan. © 1995.
• First to Venus, the Story of Mariner II by Irl Newton. NY:McGraw-Hill Book Co. © 1963.
• Red Star in Orbit by James Oberg. Random House. © 1981.
• Planetary Exploration, 30 Years of Unmanned Space Probes by Arthur Smith. © 1988. Patrick Stephens Ltd. (Thorsons Publishing Group).
• Telstar by Louis Solomon. NY: McGraw Hill. © 1962.
• Soviet Rocketry by Michael Stoiko. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. © 1970.
• Echos Among the Stars, A Short History of the U.S. Space Program by Patrick J. Walsh. M.E. Sharpe. © 2000.

Film and Video

I have seen many of NASA's public affairs movie films about their specific space missions made during the 1960's and 1970's. (Most of these I obtained through the Education Office at NASA Goddard while I worked there.) All together that adds up to over a hundred hours of film. It is not pracitcal for me to list them all. Sometimes I picked out specific information from them. But more usually I just used them for general information. From studying the history through other sources, I'm aware that sometimes the films's stories have certain "spin" that are not necessarily reliable. I've tried to take that into account when using film information.

• NOVA - To the Moon WGBH / PBS documentary.
• NOVA - The Schoolboys Who Cracked the Soviet Secret. BBC /WGBH / PBS (1989).
• Legendary Observer of the Cold War Space Race Dies Space.Com 20 January 2000.
  Obituary of Geoffrey Perry, a physics teacher at the Kettering Grammar School in England. Together with a chemistry teacher there, Derek Slater, who was also G3FOZ, they tracked satellites that passed overhead, beginning with Sputnik 4 in 1960. They eventually involved their students, forming the "Kettering Space Group." The group surprised the world when they discovered a secret Soviet launch site in 1966. Also see Sven's Space Place above.
• NOVA - Hitler's Secret Weapon, The V2 at Peenemuende. WGBH / PBS (1977).
• "Milestones of Flight.", Smithsonian Nat'l Air & Space videotape.
• Return to the Moon Japan Science & Technology Virtual Science Center.
  Online video presentation with Flash; in Japanese.
  If you don't speak Japanese, this still can be interesting for the story in pictures. There are some interview segments in English (with Japanese translation).

More Information

My Astronomy Homework Help website has links to more information. In particular, look at the Space Missions section, which includes solar system missions (including Apollo to the Moon), and a space technology page. There is also a seperate history section with a page for astronautics history.