NASA SP 4206. NASA History Series. Study of the development of the Saturn launch vehicle for the Apollo Moon Missions. Recounts the exploits of the Saturn vehicle's operational life from orbital missions around Earth testing Apollo equipment to the Moon and back. First published in 1980, this superior quality reprint contains photographs and illustrations.

Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles

History

NASA History Office

Bilstein, Professor Roger E.

Lucas, William R

World

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Taking advantage of the Soviet archives, which were opened in the 1990s, Siddiqi has written a groundbreaking work that examines why the Soviet Union fell behind in the space race of the 1960s after changing the course of human history with the first artificial satellite launch, Sputnik, in 1957.

Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974 (NASA History Series SP-2000-4408)

Science & Math

Siddiqi, Asif A.

Astronomy & Space Science

NASA SP 2004-4109. NASA History Series. Presents the memoirs of Dr. Kenneth W. Iliff, the retired Chief Scientist of NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. He worked at NASA from 1962-2002. Reprint of 2004 publication.

From Runway to Orbit: Reflections of a NASA Engineer

Biographies & Memoirs

Iliff, Kenneth W.

Peebles, Curtis L.

Professionals & Academics

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NASA History Series NASA SP-2007-4232. First published in 2006. Illustrated.

Facing the Heat Barrier: A History of Hypersonics

Engineering & Transportation

HEPPENHEIMER, T.A.

Transportation

Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program, but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoir of academician Boris Chertok, translated from the original Russian, fills that gap. Chertok began his career as an electrician in 1930 at an aviation factory near Moscow. Thirty years later, he was deputy to the founding figure of the Soviet space program, the mysterious "Chief Designer" Sergey Korolev. Chertok's 60-year-long career and the many successes and failures of the Soviet space program constitute the core of his memoirs, Rockets and People. In these writings, spread over four volumes (volumes two through four are forthcoming), academician Chertok not only describes and remembers, but also elicits and extracts profound insights from an epic story about a society's quest to explore the cosmos. This book was edited by Asif Siddiqi, a historian of Russian space exploration, and General Tom Stafford contributed a foreword touching upon his significant work with the Russians on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Overall, this book is an engaging read while also contributing much new material to the literature about the Soviet space program.

Rockets and People, Volume I (NASA History Series. NASA SP-2005-4110)

Chertok, Boris

Military

This first volume, plus the succeeding five now in preparation, covers the impact of aerodynamic development on the evolution of the airplane in America. As the six-volume series will ultimately demonstrate, just as the airplane is a defining technology of the twentieth century, aerodynamics has been the defining element of the airplane. Volumes two through six will proceed in roughly chronological order, covering such developments as the biplane, the advent of commercial airliners, flying boats, rotary aircraft, supersonic flight, and hypersonic flight. This series is designed as an aeronautics companion to the Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program (NASA SP-4407) series of books. As with Exploring the Unknown, the documents collected during this research project were assembled from a diverse number of public and private sources. A major repository of primary source materials relative to the history of the civil space program is the NA

The Wind and Beyond: A Documentary Journey Into the History of Aerodynamics in America. Volume 1: The Ascent of the Airplane in America (NASA History Series Sp-2003-4409)

Hansen, James R.

When Biospheres Collide: A History of NASA's Planetary Protection Programs (NASA History publication SP-2011-4234)

Meltzer, Michael

Rockets and People Volume I (NASA History Series. NASA SP-2005-4110)

Americas

Ikhana: Unmanned Aircraft System Western States Fire Missions (NASA Monographs in Aerospace History series, number 44)

Merlin, Peter W.

Remembering the Giants: Apollo Rocket Propulsion Development (NASA Monographs in Aerospace History series, number 45)

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