LIBRARY

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Voyager : seeking newer worlds in the third great age of discovery

Stephen J. Pyne | [S.l.] : Viking | 2010

Escaping the bonds of Earth : the fifties and the sixties

Ben Evans, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in space exploration | 2009

Project Vanguard : the NASA history

Constance McLaughlin Green, Author ; Milton Lomask, Author | [S.l.] : Dover Publications | 2009

Vanguard: a history, this award-winning book deals with the origin, course of development, and results of the first American earth satellite project. Primarily an analysis of the scientific and technical problems in this pioneering venture in th[...]

Digital Apollo : human and machine in spaceflight

David A. Mindell | Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press | 2008

Digital Apollo : human and machine in spaceflight

David A. Mindell | Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press | 2008

E-resource

Exploring the unknown : selected documents in the history of the U.S. civil space program. Vol. 7, human spaceflight: projects Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo

John M. Logsdon, Editor ; Roger D. Launius, Editor | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Program Office | NASA History Series | 2008

Les relations franco-américaines dans le domaine spatial : 1957-1975 ; actes, quatrième Rencontre de l'IFHE sur l'essor des recherches spatiales en France, Paris, France, 8-9 décembre 2005..

Institut français d'histoire de l'espace (2005; Paris), Author ; Institut francais d'histoire de l'espace, Editor | Paris : Edite | 2008

NASA - 50 years of exploration and discovery

[S.l.] : Faircountmedia group | 2008

The politics of space security : strategic restraint and the pursuit of national interests

James Clay Moltz | [S.l.] : Stanford Security Studies | 2008

In Sputnik's shadow : the President's Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America

Zuoyue Wang | [S.l.] : Rutgers University Press | 2008

American public science, 1863-1945 -- The origins of technological skepticism, 1945-1950 -- Mobilizing science for the Korean War under Truman, 1950-1952 -- Science and the national security state under Eisenhower, 1952-1957 -- Eisenhower, Sputn[...]

Epic rivalry : the inside story of the Soviet and American space race

Von Hardesty ; Gene Eisman ; Sergei Khrushchev | [S.l.] : National Geographic Society | 2007

A history of the Kennedy Space Center

Kenneth Lipartito, Author ; Orville R. Butler, Author | [S.l.] : University Press of Florida | 2007

"This is the first comprehensive history of the Kennedy Space Center, NASA's famous launch facility at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Vehicle Assembly Building and launchpads dominate the flat terrain of the Cape and attract more than 1.4 million [...]

Into the black : JPL and the American space program, 1976-2004

Peter J. Westwick | New Haven : Yale University Press | 2007

Into the black : JPL and the American space program, 1976-2004

Peter J. Westwick | New Haven : Yale University Press | 2007

In the decades since the mid-1970s, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has led the quest to explore the farthest reaches of the solar system. JPL spacecraft Voyager, Magellan, Galileo, the Mars rovers, and others have brought[...]

E-resource

Mars wars : the rise and fall of the Space Exploration Initiative

Thor Hogan | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Program Office | NASA History Series | 2007

Winner of the 2007 AIAA History Manuscript Award.

NASA'S scientist-astronauts

David J. Shayler ; Colin Burgess | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in space exploration | 2007

Praxis manned spaceflight log 1961-2006

David Shayler, Author ; Michael D. Shayler, Author ; Tim Furniss, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in space exploration | 2007

This book is a comprehensive guide to all the space missions, from Gagarin to the ISS and the latest Chinese Shenzhou missions. A chronological sequence of orbital flights includes facts on the sub-orbital and ballistics flights that are a funda[...]

In the Shadow of the Moon : A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969

Francis French, Author ; Colin Burgess, Author | [S.l.] : University of Nebraska Press | Outward odyssey : a people's history of spaceflight | 2007

Tells the story of the exciting and challenging years in space flight, with two superpowers engaged in a titanic struggle to land one of their own people on the moon. This book explores the inspirations, ambitions, personalities, and experiences[...]

E-resource

Societal impact of spaceflight

Steven J. Dick, Editor ; Roger D. Launius, Editor | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA SP | 2007

E-resource

U.S. human spaceflight : a record of achievement, 1961-2006

Judy A. Rumerman, Editor ; United States., Editor ; National Aeronautics and Space Administration., Editor ; History Office National aeronautics and Space Administration, Editor | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Program Office | Monographs in Aerospace History | 2007

This handy and richly illustrated reference work is an updating of the similarly titled Monograph 9 that was published in 1998.

E-resource

Critical issues in the history of spaceflight

Steven J. Dick ; Roger D. Launius 2006

E-resource

Go for launch : an illustrated history of Cape Canaveral

Joel W. Powell ; Art. LeBrun | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | Apogee Books space series | 2006

Defining NASA : the historical debate over the agency's mission

W.D. Kay | [S.l.] : State University of New York Press | 2005

Saturn V : the complete manufacturing and test records : plus supplemental material

Alan Lawrie ; Robert Godwin | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | Apogee Books space series | 2005

Women in space - Following Valentina

David J. Shayler ; Ian A. Moule | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in space exploration | 2005

The story of woman in space charts the pioneering aeronautical developments of the early decades of the 20th century to the very start of human exploration, and on to the Shuttle and space station era. The authors chronicle these missions into s[...]