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Vol. 15 No. 1 (February 2007) -

- "Martin-Bell's Alternate 1958 Dyna-Soar I Studies Revealed" by Dave Stern
- "The Failure of Cosmos 57: A Case History in Telemetry Analysis" by Frank Whitmire and Edward Correll
- "The ORDCIT Project at JPL (1943 - 1946) America's First Long Range Missile and Space Exploration Program" by Frank Malina
- "Earth Satellites: A First Look by the U.S. Navy" by R. Cargill Hall
- "An Interview with Konrad Dannenberg" by Roger Launius, Lori Walters, and Stanley Starr
- "The Lunar Exploration Scrapbook: A Pictorial History of Lunar Vehicles" by Robert Godwin, Apogee Books
- Review: "We Came in Peace for all Mankind: The Apollo 11 Silicon Disk" by Tahir Rahman, review by Dr. Margaret Weitekamp
- Review: "Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age" by Matthew Brzezinski, review by Dr. Roger Launius


Vol. 14 No. 4 (October 2007) - Special SPUTNIK Issue
- "Sphere of Influence: The Sputnik Crisis and the Master Narrative" by Roger Launis
- "The Sputnik Decision Revisited" by Asif Siddiqi
- "Sputnik, Eisenhower, and the Formation of the United States Space Program" by R. Cargill Hall
- "Sputnik: The Human Story" by Matt Bille and Erika Lishock
- "In Public and Behind Closed Doors: President Eisenhower and Sputnik" by Howard Trace
- Sputnik System Specifications
- Media Accounts of Sputnik: Pravda - 7 October 1957
- Media Accounts of Sputnik: Houston Chronicle - 4 October 1987
- Memorandum of Conference with the President
- Book Review: "The Gaither Committee, Eisenhower, and the Cold War" by David Snead
- Book Review: "Spy Satellites and other Intelligence Technologies that Changed History" by Thomas Graham Jr and Keith Hansen
- Movie Review: "The Fever of '57"


Vol. 14 No. 3 (Mailed August 21, 2007)
- "Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: The Real Story of the Challenger Accident" by Allan McDonald and James Hansen
- "TIMATION and the Invention of GPS 1964-1973" by Richard Easton
- "Mission to Planet Earth: NASA's Earth Science Program" by Edward Goldstein
- "Pioneering Space, Part II" by Gideon Marcus
- "Sci-Fi and the Mobilization of Youth in the Cold War" by Larry Owens
- "An Interview with Joe Allen - A Scientist, Astronaut, and Entrepreneur Discusses His Two Shuttle Flights and Post-NASA Career, Part II" by Jennifer Ross-Nazzal
- Book Review: 'Too Far From Home" by Chris Jones
- Book Review: 'Spying from Space: Constructing America's Command and Control System" by David Arnold
- Book Review: 'Stargazer: The Life and Times of the Telescope' by Fred Watson
- Book Review: 'Project Mars: A Technical Tale' by Wernher von Braun
- Book Review: 'Religions of Star Trek' by Kraemer, Cassidy & Schwartz


Vol. 14 No. 2 (Mailed May 2007)
- "The ‘Star Wars” Which Never Happened - Part II by Konstantin Lantratov, Translated from the Russian by Dr. Asif Siddiqi
- "'How to Land Next to a Surveyor: Bill Tindall and the Apollo Pinpoint Lunar Landing" by Andrew Baird
- "Deep Space 1: A Revolution n Space Exploration" by Erik Conway and Mirella Flores
- "Pioneering Space" by Gideon Marcus
- "An Interview with Joe Allen - A Scientist, Astronaut, and Entrepreneur Discusses His Career at NASA" by Jennifer Ross-Nazzal
- Book Review: 'Spacepower for a New Millenium: Space & National Security' by Hays, Smith, van Tassel, and Walsh
- Book Review: 'Inventions from Outer Space: Everyday Uses for NASA Technology' by David Baker
- Book Review: 'Space 50' by Piers Bizony
- Book Review: 'Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed' by Jared Diamond


Vol. 14 No. 1 (Mailed February 2007)
- "The ‘Star Wars” Which Never Happened - Part I by Konstantin Lantratov, Translated from the Russian by Dr. Asif Siddiqi
- "'He Introduced the Word 'Cosmonautics': The Story of Ary Sternfeld, a Forgotten Space Pioneer" by Michael Gruntman
- "Byron’s Story… A 50-Year Odyssey from Young Rocketeer to Auto Safety Expert" by Byron Bloch
- "The Birth and Early Rise of “Astronautics: The REP-Hirsch Astronautical Prize, 1928-1940" By Frank H. Winter
- "An Interview with Satellite Communications Pioneer Sajjad Durrani" by Michael Geselowitz
- "The Road to Mach 10 - A History of the X-34A Hypersonic Flight Test Program - Part II" - by Curtis Peebles
- Book Review: "The Human Experiment - Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside the Biosphere 2" by Jane Poynter
- Book Review: "International Space Commerce"


Vol. 13 No. 4 (Mailed November 2006)
- "The AVRO Manned Blue Steel Rocket" by John Allen
- "The Pioneer Rocket" by Gideon Marcus
- "Secret Boost Glider Porjects of the Cold War (part II)" by Dave Stern
- "An Interview with Frank Buzard Regarding Discoverer/Corona" by Robert Mulcahy
- "Convair's Apollo Lunar Excursion Module Proposal - The Forgotten LEM" by Paul Carsola
- "A Hit or a Myth: Critiques of the Space Race in Popular Recordings" by Apollo C. Vignette
- "The Herman Potocnik Noordung Memorial Centre" by Goran Jovic
- Book Review: 'Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity & The Exploration ofthe Red Planet' - Book by Steve Squyres, Review by Dr. David Fisher

On The Bookshelf:
- 'Russia's Cosmonauts: Inside the Yuri Gagarin Training Center', published by Praxis
- 'U.S. Spacesuits', published by Praxis
- 'Go For Launch: An Illustrated History of Cape Canaveral', published by Apogee Books
- 'Destination Moon; The Apollo Missions in the Astronauts Own Words', published by Collins
- 'International Space Commerce: Building From Scratch', published by Univ. Press of Florida
- '2006 North American Space Directory', published by SpaceBusiness.com



Vol. 13 No. 3 (August 2006)
- "The Road to Mach 10: A History of the X-43A Test Program at NASA Dryden" by Curtis Peebles
- "Malinowski in Orbit: 'Magical Thinking' in Human Spaceflight" by Deana Weibel & Glen Swanson
- "The Space Station: A Laboratory for Policy Sustainment" by Jeff Bingham
- "The Changing Purpose of the Space Station" by James Vedda
- "An Interview with Shannon Lucid" by Mark Davison, Rebecca Wright, and Paul Robbins
- Review: "Riding Rockets: Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut" by Mike Mullane, Review by Valerie Neal

On The Bookshelf:
- 'Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Near Side of the Moon' by Charles Byrne
- 'The Last of the Great Observatories: Spitzer and the Era of Faster, Better, Cheaper at NASA' by George Rieke
- 'Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space' by Deborah Cadbury
- 'Apollo: The Definitive Sourcebook' by Richard Orloff and David Harland
- 'Spacecraft Technology: The Early Years' by Mark Williamson
- 'George Marshall National Security Space Project - Presidential Decisions / NSC Documents' by Stephanie Feyock and R. Cargill Hall


Vol. 13 No. 2 (Mailed May 2006)
-"The Space Shuttle: 25 Years On (What Does It Mean to Have Reusable Access to Space)" by Dr. Roger Launius
-"Secret Boost Glider Projects of the Cold War - America's Winged Space Plane Studies of the 1950s" by Dave Stern
-"Saturn Observations: Four Hundred Years of Viewing the Planet" by Matt Berggren
-"Cosmic Radiation Pioneers" by Duane Gravelin MD, David Simons MD, and Marcelo Vazquez MD
-"Saving a Saturn V - A Case Study in Artifact Preservation" by Allan Needdell
-"An Interview with Simon Ramo - The 'R' in TRW" by Rober Mulcahy
-Book Review - "Sky Walking: An Astronaut Memoir" Book by Tom Jones, Review by Valerie Neal
-Book Review - "Testing the Limits: Aviation Medicine & the Origins of Manned Space Flight" Book by
Maura Phillips Mackowski, Review by Prof. Nicholas de Monchaux


Vol. 13 No. 1 (Mailed February 2006)
-"'Mr. Inside' the Rogers Commission: NeilArmstrong's Engineering Style of Analysis in the Space Shuttle Challenger Investigation" by Dr. James Hansen (author of First Man)
-"Taking the First Step: Science on Apollo 11" by Christopher Gainor
-"Reliability in the Apollo Program" by Yasushi Sato
-"The A4 Rocket - The March 1946 Interrogation of Wernher von Braun by Lt.Commander Robert Truax
-"An Interview with Charles Mathews" by Donald Pealer
- "Always Aim to Be First - The Yuri Gagarin Story...Using Words from the Cosmonaut, His Family, and Colleagues"
-Book Review - "Shades of Gray: National Security and the Evolution of Space Reconnaissance". Book by L. Parker Temple III. Review by Dr. Roger Launius
-Book Review - "Heavens Fill with Commerce". Book by Virgil Labrador and Peter Galace. Review by Scott Sacknoff


Vol. 12 No. 4 (Mailed 10/28/05) - OUT OF STOCK
- "Got Filk? - Lament for Apollo in Modern Science Fiction Folk Music" by Roger Launius
- "Charles Lindbergh's Flight into Space-Sculpture Taking Aboard SpaceShipOne" by Colin Fries
- "Apollo and the Origin of the Moon" by Christopher Gainor
- "India's Remote Sensing Program" by Shubhada Savant and Sanithosh Seelan
- "A Brief History of Commercial High-Resolution Satellite Remote Sensing" by Incigul Polat-Erdogan
- "An Interview with Robert Heselmeyer" - edited by Sandra Johnson
- Book Review - "First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong" - Book by James Hanson, Review by Tom Crouch
- Book Review - "Gus Grissom: The Lost Astronaut" - Book by Ray Boomhower, Review by David Arnold


Vol. 12 No. 3 (Mailed July 7, 2005)
- "Outer Space Exploration from Utah: Leon Linford & Rocket Science" by Doran Baker & Kay Baker
- "Launch Vehicle Human Rating Before the Space Shuttle" by T Harold Robertson
- "Apollo Panoramas" by Mike Constantine
- "An Interview with Robert Crippen by Donald Pealer
- "Astro Projection: Virtual Reality, Telepresence, and the Evolving Human Space Experience" by Savan Becker


Vol. 12 No. 2 (Mailed April 22, 2005)
- "The Solar System from Earth Orbit" - by Howard Trace
- "Getting into the Launch Business - The American Rocket Co Story" - George Koopman Speech w/Commentary by Matthew Trace
- "Recollections of Max Faget: Colleague, Mentor, and Friend" by Dr. Joe Allen
- "An Interview with Max Faget (A discussion on the Space Shuttle) by Carol Butler
- "Heritage Sites of the U.S. Space Program in Australia" - by Dirk Spennemann and Linda Kosmer


Vol. 12 No. 1 (Mailed January 29, 2005)
- "Landsat - An Integrated History" by James Allen and Shanaka de Silva
- "A Day in the Life of the NASA Astronaut Corps - January 27, 1967" by John Charles
- "The Apollo Moon Program at Hamilton Standard" - by Harvey Smith
- "Safeguard - North Dakota's Front Line in the Cold War" - Gregory Bowen
- "An Interview with Jay Honeycutt" by Rebecca Wright
- Photo Book Review -- "Building Moonships - The Grumman Lunar Module"


Vol. 11 No. 4 (Mailed-October 29, 2004)
- "Chronicling Space-Adventures in Space History" by Matt Billie with Erika Lishock
- "Rise of the Machines-Telerobotic Operations in the U.S. Space Program" by Savan Becker
- "Risk Management in the X-Planes Era (D-558-II vs X-IA at Mach 2)," by Curtis Peebles
- "Canadian Radarsat Program," by Howard Edel, Edryd Shaw, John Falkingham, William Jefferies, Dave Wilson, and Gary Borstad
- Interview with Neil Hutchinson (Space Station Program Manager) by Jennifer Ross-Nazzal
- Book Review: "Lost in Space: The Fall of NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age" written by Greg Klerkx, reviewed by Kristen Starr
- Book Review: "To the End of the Solar System: The Story of the Nuclear Rocket" written by James Dewar, reviewed by Stephen Johnson


Vol. 11 No. 3 (Mailed August 2, 2004)
- "The NRO in the 21st Century: Ensuring Global Information Supremacy" by R. Cargill Hall
- "The Turkish Space Program: Just a Beginning" by Incigul Polat-Erdogan
- "A History of the United States Anti-Satellite Program and the Evolution to Space Control and Offensive and Defensive Counterspace," Robert Kilgo
- "A Look into the History of American Satellite Navigation," by Chris Banther
- Interview with Dr. Bradford Parkinson (the creator of GPS) by Stephen Strom
- "Will it Go 'Round in Circles? A Colorful Mosaic of Art Flown in Space." by Colin Fries
- Letters to the Editor - Peter Pesavento and Charles P. Vick, "Recently Declassified US Documents Highlight Aspects of USSR Manned Lunar Landing Efforts."


Vol. 11 No. 2 (Mailed April 16, 2004)
- The Moon Race End Game - Part II, by Peter Pesavento and Charles Vick
- An Interview with Gemini and Apollo Flight Controller John Aaron, by Kevin Rusnak


Vol. 11 No. 1 (Mailed January 30, 2004)
- The Moon Race End Game, by Peter Pesavento and Charles Vick
- Launch Vehicles and the Development of Systems Engineering
- Traditions of the Space Age, by Colin Fries
- An Interview with Joseph Kerwin by Kevin Rusnak
- Exhibit: Space: A Journey to Our Future


Vol. 10 No. 4 (Mailed Oct 30, 2003)
- The Chapman Report and the Development of Canada's Space Program by Christopher Gainor
- History of Human Spaceflight Mission Operations by Ken Peek
- Nike-Zeus' Thunder & Lightning: From Antiballistic Missile to Antiballistic Interceptor by Clayton Chun
- A Pinpoint on the Ocean of Storms: Finding the Target for Apollo 12 by David Clow & Ewen Whitaker
- An Interview with H. Morgan Smith (NASA Astronaut Survival Training School) by Rebecca Wright
- A Commercial Communications Satellite Timeline by Scott Sacknoff
- Book Review: Exploring Space, Exploring Earth - New Understanding of the Earth from Space Research
- Book Review: We Have Capture - Tom Stafford and the Space Race


Vol. 10 No. 3 (Mailed July 29, 2003)
- Heated Debates: A History of the Development of the Space Shuttle's Thermal Protection System 1970-1981 - by Brian Woods
- Collecting Literature in the Space & Rocket Fields, Part II & III - by Frederick Ordway
- The Green Hills of Earth - Views of the Earth as Described by Astronauts & Cosmonauts - by Colin Fries
- An Interview with Joseph Wambolt - Principal Director, Aerospace Corporation
- Book Review: Visions of Spaceflight, Images from the Ordway Collection


Vol. 10 No. 2 (Mailed April 18, 2003)
- The "First Lady of Space" Remembers - Memoirs by Valentina Tereshkova
- Slayton's Unexpected Orders - by John Charles
- Defending Against Hitler's Vengeance - The U.S. Army and the V-2 - by Clayton Chun
- An Interview with Edward Fendell - by Kevin Rusnak
- Collecting Literature in the Space & Rocket Fields, Part I - by Frederick Ordway
- Sports Milestones in Space - by Colin Fries
- The Russia and U.S. Library of Space Science & Exploration


Vol. 10 No. 1 (Mailed January 17, 2003)
- An Interview with Neil Armstrong
- Those Hollywood Spooks and Their Spying Machines - Spy Satellites in Film and Reality
- Red Bear on the Prowl - Strategic Warning in the Soviet Union, Part 2
- The Air Force Space Museum


Vol. 9 No. 5 (Mailed October 15, 2002)LIMITED STOCK
- Space Suit Backpacks: U.S. Space Portable Life Support Systems
- The Tragic Story of Apollo 1
- Reverse Salients in the Air Force Satellite Control Facility 1961-1965
- The Soviet Buran Space Shuttle
- An Interview with Eilene Galloway
- Review: "Moonstruck - Werner von Braun and the Birth of Space Travel Out of the Spirit of Barbarism"


Vol. 9 No. 4 (June 2002) LIMITED STOCK
- Effects of a Saturn V Launch Pad Explosion
- Pioneering the Solar System and Beyond
- History of Commercialization of Manned Space in Europe
- Space-related Strategic Defense in the Soviet Union, Part I
- Calculating Women: A Brief History of the LRWE/WRE Computing Team
- Atlas-Vega: Early NASA Launch Vehicle Development
- Computer Use During the Early Manned American Space Missions
- Museum: The National Space Centre
- Book Review: "Beyond the Moon: A Golden Age of Planetary Exploration 1971-1978"
- Book Review: "Sputnik: The Shock of the Century"
- Letters to the Editor


Vol. 9 No. 3 (March 2002) LIMITED STOCK
- Remembering the Space Race with Walter Cronkite
- Early History of Satellite Insurance
- Owen Maynard: Lunar Module Pioneer from Canada
- Space Age Milestones Celebrated in Music
- Chicken Little was Right: The Sky(lab) is Falling Down
- Forging America's Shield: Issues of National Missile Deployment
- The Astronaut Hall of Fame


Vol. 9 No. 2 (December 2001) - OUT OF STOCK
- History of the Military Polar Orbiting Meteorological Satellite Program
- The First Apollo 2: Operations Planned for "The Leaping Green Frog"
- Australia: Spacefaring Under the Southern Cross
- An Interview with Colonel Thomas Haig
- Archival Records of the NASA Ames Research Center
- Book Review: The Moon Hunters
- Book Review: The Unbroken Chain


Vol. 9 No. 1 (September 2001) LIMITED STOCK
- Space, Energy & Crisis
- Apollo-Soyuz Test Project:  "In Tune" with Détente
- Evolution of the Indian Launch Vehicle
- Political History of the Establishment of Air Force Space Command
- "Lights, Camera, Action":  Camera Capsules and the Saturn Launch Vehicle
- The Industrial Space Facility
- Interview: Alan Rochford
- Book Review: Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race 1945-1974


Vol. 8 No. 4 (June 2001) OUT OF STOCK
- The One-Way Manned Mission to the Moon
- James A. Chamberlin: A Forgotten Leader of the U.S. Space Program
- E and E-Prime - The Forgotten Apollo Missions
- The Technical Evolution of the Europa Rocket
- External Tank Applications: A Brief Overview and Current Status Report
- A Brief History of the Atlas Rocket Vehicle, Part III
- An Interview with Charles “Pete” Conrad, Jr.
- The Anti-Ballistic Missile Defense System
- Astronautics in the Deutsches Museum


Vol. 8 No. 3 (March 2001) - OUT OF STOCK
- Re-Viewing the Earth: Remote Sensing and Cold War Clandestine Knowledge Production.
- The Robot Explorers of Venus, Part III
- Ivan T. Kleimyonov: A Talented Organization
- Navy's Pioneering Venture into the Space Program
- A Brief History of the Atlas Rocket, Part II
- Conestoga I: Emergence of the New Pioneers
- From Sea to Space: Evolution of the Sea-Based Launch Concept (Traux Engineering)
- An Interview with Sen. Edwin Jacob "Jake" Garn
- Smithsonian Breaks Ground for New Facility


Vol. 8 No. 2 (2000)
- The Psychological and Social Effects of Isolation on Earth & Space
- The Robot Explorers of Venus, Part II
- The Foundation of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and the Roots of West German Space Research
- Rashomon in Space:  A Short Review of Official Spy Satellite Histories
- A Brief History of the Atlas Rocket, Part I
- An Interview with Walter Mondale
- Neil Armstrong Air & Space Museum


Vol. 8 No. 1 (2000) - OUT OF STOCK
- The Race to Valhalla:  Launching the First Earth Satellite
- Space Age Legends:  Urban Folk Tales Collected by the NASA Headquarters History Office
- The Robot Explorers of Venus, Part I
- Elektron:  The Soviet Response to Explorer
- Oral History Interview:  Rodney Rose
- Space Business Archives


Vol. 7 No. 4 (2000) OUT OF STOCK
- Pathfinding the Rings:  The Pioneer Saturn Trajectory Decision
- Liberty Bell 7, This is Hunt Club 1
- In His Own Words:  A Brief Review of the Events Surrounding the Premature Release of Grissom's MR4 Hatch
- The Future of Liberty Bell 7
- Soviet Fractional Orbiting Bombardment Systems (FOBS):  A Short Technical History
- Program 437:  Thor's Hammer Strikes, Part II
- Oral History Interview:  General Bernard Schriever
- Hanger 9 -- Edward White II Memorial Museum:  Making the Transition from Air to Space


Vol. 7 No. 3 Fall 1999 - OUT OF STOCK
- Back Down to Earth:  A Look Back at Space During the Carter Administration
- U.S-Soviet/Russian Cosmos Biosatellite Program
- Program 437:  Thor's Hammer Strikes, Part I
- Titan II: Space Launch Vehicle Program, Part III
- Oral History Interview:  Tasillo Romisch
- JPL Archives:  Preserving the History of JPL
- Book Review:  Last Man on the Moon
- Book Review: The Race:  The Uncensored Story of How America Beat Russia to the Moon
- Book Review:  Space Station:  The Journey Begins



Vol. 7 No. 2 Summer 1999 - OUT OF STOCK
- Multiple Means to an End: A Reexamination of President Kennedy's Decision to Go to the Moon
- Revisiting the Challenger
- Mars-69: The Forgotten Mission to the Red Planet
- Securing the High Ground: The Army's Quest for the Moon
- Titan II: Research and Development, Part II
- Guenter Wendt Interview
- U.S. Space and Rocket Center Archives


Vol. 7 No. 1 Spring 1999 - LIMITED STOCK
- Missile Defense Alarm: The Genesis of Space-based Infrared Early Warning
- The French Diamant Rockets
- CORONA: A Program Profile
- Titan II: Sword and Plowshare
- Marlowe Cassetti
- Exhibiting the Space Race -- The Newseum Exhibit
- Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir
- Space and the American Imagination.


Vol. 6 No. 4 Winter 1998
- Walter Orr Roberts & the Development of Boulder's Aerospace Community
- A Hare Turned Tortoise: 40 Years of UK Space Policy
- Why "Apollo 1?" The Numbering of Apollo Missions
- Yuri Kondratyuk: Stolen Past, Stolen Future?
- Watch the Skies (Chat with the Author)
- GPS & Beyond: How the Aviation Industry is Advancing the Usefulness of GPS
- James Alton McDivitt Oral History Review
- The Titan Missile Museum National Historic Landmark


Vol. 6 No. 3 Fall 1998
- Soyuz-1 Revisited: From Myth to Reality
- "Not Too Wild a Dream": NASA and the Quest for Life in the Solar System
- The Early Years of the Molniya Program
- The Icarus Paradox: Air Force Doctrine and Space Technology
- U.S. Spacecraft Nuclear Power Systems: Past, Present and Future
- Richard Nygren Oral History Interview
- European Space Agency Archives


Vol. 6 No. 2 Summer 1998 - OUT OF STOCK
- Godspeed and War Eagle: Auburn University's Astronautical History
- Craft or System? The Development of Systems Engineering at JPL
- Before the Fire: NASA's Plans for Apollo
- Development of China's Recoverable Satellites
- A Falling Star: SAINT, America's First Anti-satellite System
- Training for Lunar Landing: The LLRV and LLTV
- The Johnson Space Center Oral History Project
- Alan B. Shepard Interview
- Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center


Vol. 6 No. 1 Spring 1998 - OUT OF STOCK
- Soyuz-Based Manned Reconnaissance Spacecraft
- The Evolution of Large Solid Propellant Rocketry in the United States
- Buzz Aldrin's Return to Earth: The Astronaut and Social Values in Apollo-Era America
- The Curious Case of Draco and the "Secret" Cape Canaveral Launches of 1959
- Interview with Martin Caidin; Air Force Space Command History Office (HQ AFSPC/HO) Archives


Vol. 5 No. 4 Winter 1996
- Apollo One: A Memorial Ceremony
- Tracing Apollo One: A Spacecraft Chronology
- Skylab B Unflown Missions, Lost Opportunities
- The Excluded: Hermann Oberth and Rudolf Nebel
- The Greatest Story on Planet Mars
- Time Stood Still After Delta II Explosion
- Eight Eyes on Hubble
- New & Improved Titan Launches
- NASA History News & Notes


Vol. 5 No. 3 Fall 1996 - OUT OF STOCK
- STS-78 Mission Overview
- STS-79 Mission Overview
- Shannon Lucid's 188 Days in Space
- Shannon Lucid; The Triumph and Tragedy of Salyut 1
- Salyut 1 Experiments
- China's Ancient Rockets
- "There It Is!" An Account of the First Dog's-in-Space
- Mission Impossible: The Kidnapping of Lunik 5
- News Items; Cosmonautics
- The Hybrid Saturn: Saturn IB
- NASA History News & Notes


Vol. 5 No. 2 Summer 1996 - LIMITED STOCK
- The Past Revisited: An Unpublished Account Goddard's Pump-fed Rockets
- Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) Part 3
- David Lasser:  Spaceflight Visionary
- STS-76 Mission Overview
- STS-77 Mission Overview
- Life Without Dad: An Interview with Scott Grissom;
- Cosmonautics
- Clusters Last Stand: The Saturn 1
- NASA History News and Notes


Vol. 5 No. 1 Spring 1996
- A History of the Project Galileo Part 1
- EPCOT, NASA and Plant Pathogens in Space
- STS-72 Mission Overview
- Cosmonautics
- STS-75 Mission Overview
- From Pencils to Planets
- Titan IV Launch Reviews
- 30th Anniversary of the World's First "Prox Ops"
- Trailblazing for the Moon: Interview with Jim Lovell
- Space Digest and Launch Manifests


Vol. 4 No. 4 Winter 1995 - OUT OF STOCK
- The Origin of the Rocket-Propelled Spaceship
- An Illustrated Chronology of the First Experiments in Space Rocketry
- Rockets Red Glare:  From Bird Watch Hill
- Preserving Moon Rocks
- Apollo's Top Ten Discoveries
- Viewing Moon Rocks
- Dusting Off the Moon Machines
- Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) Part 2
- Interagency Rivalry: NASA, The Air Force and MOL
- American Reconnaissance Satellites Part 2: Beyond Imaging
- NASA History News and Notes


Vol. 4 No. 3 Fall 1995 - OUT OF STOCK
- CORONA: America's First Spy Satellite (Part 2)
- A History of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory(MOL) Part 1
- The Soviet Legacy of the V-2
- "Houston, We Have a Problem": A Nitpicker's Guide to APOLLO 13 the Movie
- A Piece of the Action: An Exhibit on the Making of APOLLO 13
- Mighty Moon Machine Hits the Big Screen: Modeling the Saturn V for the Movies
- Read More About It: Books on Apollo 13
- The Real Thing: Original Apollo 13 hardware on display
- NASA History News & Notes


Vol. 4 No. 2 Summer 1995 - OUT OF STOCK
- CORONA: America's First Spy Satellite (Part I)
- U.S. Reconnaissance Satellite Program Part I: Imaging Satellites
- Mercury 7 Monument
- "Freddo" An Interview with Apollo 13 Astronaut Fred Haise
- Letters, Quarter Centuries, Rockets Red Glare
- Thor-Able: America's First Moon Rocket
- NASA History News & Notes.


Vol. 4 No. 1 Spring 1995 - OUT OF STOCK
- Houston, We've Had A Problem (The Mission of Apollo 13)
- Lost Moon-Found Earth (Jim Lovell Interview)
- Down to Earth: Apollo 13 from the CapCom's Chair (Jack Lousma Interview)
- E Pluribus Unum: Apollo 13 and American Unity
- The Rockets of GIRD
- Is It Now Possible to Attempt a Voyage From The Earth to the Moon? by Luigi Gussalli.


Vol. 3 No. 4 Winter 1994 - OUT OF STOCK
- Why the X-20 Program was Proposed
- A Historical Overview of the X-20 Dyna-Soar Program
- The X-20 Pilots, The X-20 Hardware and Technology
- In the Hot Seat: The X-20 Cockpit
- The X-20 Pressure Suit
- Why the X-20 Program was Canceled
- Mourning Star:  The Nedelin Disaster
- Dyna-Soar and the Development of the Titan III Launch Vehicle


Vol. 3 No. 2&3 Summer/Fall 1994 (SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE)-LIMITED STOCK
- Apollo 11 at 25
- "It's Time to Go" A Salute to Apollo
- Spider Talk: Builders of the LM Reunite for 25th Anniversary
- Project Apollo Bibliography of Books
- A Race to the Moon: The Flight of Luna 15
- Moon Shooter: An Interview with Alan Shepard
- Atlas Shrugged: Future of Historic Monument Up in the Air
- The German Space Pioneers: An Interview with Marsha Freeman
- Project Adam: The Army's Man in Space Program;
- Moon Men: An Interview with Andrew Chaikin author of "A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts"
- Footprints on the Moon: An Interview with Charlie Duke
- Celebrating Apollo at Home: A Look at the Various Model Kits Produced of the Saturn V
- The Secret Life of the Redstone Missile.


Vol. 3 No. 1 Spring 1994 - OUT OF STOCK
- The X-15 Spaceplane
- X-15 Flight Log
- Test Pilot Elite: An interview with Milt Thompson
- The X-15 Experience: Milt Thompson Talks about Flying the X-15
- In Search of X-15
- Thirtysomething Vostok...
- A History of Air-Launched Space Vehicles
- Three Saturn Vs: A Look at the Remaining Saturn V Hardware
- Poland's Meteor Sounding Rockets
- The NOTSNIK Program: The Top Secret Air-Launched Satellite Attempts of 1958.


Vol. 2 No. 4 Winter 1993 - OUT OF STOCK
- A Survey of Surveyor: A Look Back at America's Robotic Lunar Landing Program
- Money Talks in Russia
- Mercury Atlas 10: A Mission Note Flown
- The Russian Space Auction at Sothebys in New York
- The Viking Rocket: Filling the Gap
- Soviet Manned Lunar Programs
- Bye, Bye, Buran: Soviet Shuttle Made into Amusement Park Ride.


Vol. 2 No. 3 Fall 1993 - OUT OF STOCK
- Land Landings for Gemini: NASA's Paraglider Program
- The 1963 Soviet Space Platform Project
- The Right Stuff, The Wrong Story: A "Hollywood History" Blurs the Truth Behind America's Second Manned Spaceflight
- Semyorka Family Values
- The Hunt for Liberty Bell 7
- ALSO: Air-Launched Sounding Rocket, The Anonymous Atlas H.


Vol. 2 No. 2 Summer 1993 - OUT OF STOCK
- They Might Be Giants: A History of Project Nova 1959-1964 Part III
- The Russian Space Support Fleet--A Sad End
- The Lockheed CL-635
- Mothballed Potential: Energia & Buran
- A Pioneer of Space: Georgi Grechko's Story
- All Suited Up and No Place to Go: Soviet Lunar EVA Suit
- More Data on the Soviet Manned Lunar Program
- U.S. and Soviet Manned Lunar Landing Projects
- Scuds for Science: The V-11-A
- Unique Atlas-Agena Configurations
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Vol. 2 No. 1 Spring 1993 - OUT OF STOCK
- Rocket Men In Their Rocket Ships: The Astronauts and Their Corvettes
- NASA's Hot Rods: Souped-up Coupes Served Role in space race
- They Might Be Giants: A History of Project Nova 1959-1964 Part II
- Two Decades Later, Another Hand Shake in Space
- New Apollo/Saturn V Museum to be Built at KSC
- Diamant A and the First French Satellite
- Nancy Yasecko on "Growing Up with Rockets;"
- The Navaho XSM-94 Missile.


Vol. 1 No. 4 Winter 1992 - OUT OF STOCK
- From Heaven to Hell: The Pioneer Venus Story
- The Soviet Manned Lunar Program Revealed; The Soviet Manned Circumlunar Program
- The N-1 and the Soviet Manned Lunar Landing Program
- Chelomei's Alternative Manned Lunar Program
- The Problem of Re-entry and the X-17
- Titan III & IV
- Dennis Jenkins Interview: The Past, Present and Future of the Space Shuttle Program
- Destination Moon: U.S. and Soviet Manned Lunar Hardware Compared.


Vol. 1 No. 3 Fall 1992 - OUT OF STOCK
- Crashing Success: An Overview of Project Ranger
- They Might Be Giants: A History of Project NOVA 1959-1964 Part I
- START:  Forging Some Swords into Plowshares
- Space Center Houston
- Sputnik: The Shot Heard Around the World
- More on the 'Meatball'
- Life, the Universe and CD-ROMS
- Top Secret Titan and Atlas Revealed.


Vol. 1 No. 2 Summer 1992 - OUT OF STOCK
- Spaceport Michigan: When Rockets Flew from the Great Lakes State
- The 'Meatball' Is Back!: A Look at the Origins of NASA Insignias and Crew Patches
- Russian Lifeboats for Space Station Freedom?
- NASA Spacelink
- U.S., Russian Agree to Collaborate in Space: Cosmonauts to Fly on Shuttle; Astronauts, Shuttle to Visit Mir.


Vol. 1 No. 1 Spring 1992 (Originally Named Lift Off) OUT OF STOCK
- V-2 Ventures: A Look at Early U.S. Testing of the Infamous German Rocket;
- Salute to Salyut: A History of Soviet Space Station Programs;
- From the Sea to the Stars: New Air & Space Museum Opens in Virginia;
- More Russian Right Stuff: Commonwealth of Independent States Leaders Create New Space Program;
- The Minsk Agreement on Joint Activity in Space Research and Exploration;
- Getting a Piece of the Rock: NASA's Lunar Sample Education Program.








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