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Back Issues: List of Articles by Issue

Vol 13-17         Vol 9-12         Vol 5-8        Vol 1-4     By Topic    

Vol. 17 No. 1
(Mailed 26 February 2010)

  • An Interview with Joe Engle: To Space by Stick and Rudder
  • Rogers Dry Lake Bed: The Role of Nature's Aerodrome in Spaceflight by Matt Berggren
  • Man, Money, and the Moon: Astronaut Ken Money and the Future of Space Exploration by David Kurtz
  • Survival after Decompression to a Vacuum by John Billingham
  • The Animal Test Program: The MR-2 and MA-5 Flights
  • Book Review: A Fiery Peace in a Cold War, book by Neil Sheehan, review by Rick Sturdevant
  • Book Review: For the Soul of Mankind, book by Melvyn Leffler, review by Dr. Roger Launius
  • Book Review: Rocketbelt Pilot Manual: A Guide by the Bell Test Pilot, book by William Suitor, review by Dave Stern
  • Book Review: The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets, book by Alan Boss, review by Dr. Roger Launius.
    • Vol. 16 No. 4
    (Printer 23 November 2009)

  • An Interview with Joe Gavin jr: Engineering a Vehicle for Another World
  • An Interview with Bruce Hall: Reporting Triumph & Tragedy int he Space Shuttle Program
  • "The Intelligence Agencies Help Find Whales: Civilian Use of Classified Overhead Photography under Project Argo" by James David
  • "The Elusive Human Maximum Altitude Record" by Daniel Adamo
  • "Kosmic Konspiracy: How I Learned to Question the Evidence" by Joe Felice
  • An Ordinary Joe Lives His Dream When He Least Expected It by Joe Lennox
  • Book Review: A Dictionary of the Space Age
  • Book Review: The Space Shuttle Program: How NASA Lost its Way
  • Book Review: Missiles for the Fatherland: Peenemunde, National Socialism, and the V-2 Missile
  • Book Review: The Adaptive Optics Revolution
  • Book Review: The Saturn V, F-1 Engine: Powering Apollo into History
    • Vol. 16 No. 3
    (Mailed 21 September 2009)

  • An interview with Chris Kraft - The Courageous Flight of Apollo 8 by Rebecca Wright
  • Seeing Earth: A New Look at the Apollo 8 Earthrise Photograph by Jennifer Levasseur
  • Picturing Apollo: Illustrated Histories Commemorating the Moon Landings by Dr. Roger Launius
  • Gagarin's Last Flight
  • Cosmonaut Number Two
  • Atomic Power in Space: A History
  • Book Review: The Adaptive Optics Revolution
  • Book Review: On Mars: Exploration of the Red Planet
    • Vol. 16 No. 2 - The 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11
    (Mailed - 10 June 2009)
  • An interview with Michael Collins - Gemini X, Apollo 11 by Michelle Kelly
  • Commemorative Medals and Apollo 11 Symbolism by Dr. Margaret Weitekamp
  • A Legacy of Service and Corporation: ARCAS by Dr. Roy Houchin II
  • Saturn Launch Options: A Bellcomm Report
  • The Man in the Moon will be Your Husband by Fifi Booth
  • Political and Technical Aspects of Planting a Flag on the Moon by Annie Platoff
  • Teaching Geology to Astronauts by Gary Lofgren
  • Apollo: A Young Engineer's Perspective
  • The Apollo Era: Working at NASA Marshall in the 1960s
  • Movie Review: Orphans of Apollo, A Michael Potter film
  • Book Review: Project Vangard: The NASA History by McLaughlin-Green/Lomask
  • Book Review: Chariots for Apollo by Brooks/Grimwood/Swenson
  • Book Review: Digital Apollo by David Mindell
  • Book Review: Decoding the Heavens by Jo Marchant
  • Book Review: The Very First Light by Mather/Boslough
    • Vol. 16 No. 1 (Mailed - March 2009)
  • An interview with Paul Calle
  • John Glenn: Pilot's Debriefing after the MA-6 Flight: From the USS Noa Recovery Vehicle
  • The Politics of Apollo during the Kennedy Administration
  • How CBS News Televised Early Space Achievements: Mercury & Gemini
  • The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: Detente and the Cold War
    • Vol. 15 No. 4 (Mailed - 24 November 2008)
  • An interview with George M. Low - Gemini Program Decisions
  • "Reconnaissance and Prestige: Cold War Engines Driving the Creations of a Trinitarian American Space Program in the Early Space Age" by Mark Erickson
  • "Selling Symbol & Science: Sputnik and the NASA Office of Public Information" by Kristen Starr
  • "Selection of Training of Soviet Cosmonauts" - Archives of the CIA
  • "Snooping on Space Pictures" by Henry Plaster, CIA
  • Review: 'U.S. Space Launch Vehicle Technology', book by J.D. Hunley, review by Dr. Roger Launius
  • Review: 'Slipping the Surly Bonds: Reagan's Challenger Address', book by Mary Stuckey, review by Dr. Roger Launius


    		• Vol. 15 No. 3 (Mailed September 2, 2008)

    - "An Interview with Robert C. Seamans, Jr - Decisions with Lunar Proportions"
    - "Astrobiology & Robotic Lunar/Planetary Exploration" by Yasushi Sato
    - "America's Manned Scramble to Orbit - The Navaho and the X-15B Plan" by Dave Stern
    - "General Electric: Early Space Age Adventures" by Roy E. Anderson
    - Review: "Read you Loud and Clear! The Story of NASA's Spaceflight & Data Network" by Sunny Tsiao, review by David Arnold
    - Review: "Canada's Fifty Years in Space" by Gordon Shepherd & Agnes Kruchio, review by Christopher Gainor
    - Review: "In the Shadow of the Moon" by Colin Burgess and Francis French, review by Tyler Peterson

    Vol. 15 No. 2 (Mailed May 19, 2008)

    - "An Interview with Eberhardt Rechtin: Architect of the Deep Space Network" by Frederik Nebeker
    - "The Cresent Engineering & Research Company"
    - "The B-9 Incident: Why Did an Atlas Rocket Explode Without Warning"
    - "Utilization of the V-2 (A-4) Rocket in Upper Atmosphere Research" by Charles Green
    - "Broomstick Scientists: Personal Recollections of the Army V-2 Program" by Arnie Crouch
    - "A-4 Across Germany: Tracing Development of the A-4 (V-2) in Present Day Germany" by Dr. Andrew Thomson
    - "The Kidnapping of the Lunik" by Sydney Finer
    - From the Archives: Projecxt Corona - Security in 1960
    - Statistics & Economics: Human Spaceflight Program Costs in the 1960s
    - Review: "von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War" by Michael Neufeld, review by Donald Baucom
    - Review: "Spies in the Sky: Surveillance Satellites in War and Peace" by Pat Norris, review by David Arnold

    Vol. 15 No. 1 (February 2008)

    - "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 Pictoral History of Lunar Vehicles" by Rober 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 Launius
    - "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
    • Vol. 13 No. 3 (Mailed - 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


    		• 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