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X-Planes

ˇ  1-4     The Problem of Re-entry and the X-17

ˇ  3-1     The X-15 Spaceplane

ˇ  3-1     X-15 Flight Log

ˇ  3-1     Test Pilot Elite: An interview with Milt Thompson

ˇ  3-1     The X-15 Experience: Milt Thompson Talks about Flying the X-15

ˇ  3-1     In Search of X-15

ˇ  3-4     Why the X-20 Program was Proposed

ˇ  3-4     A Historical Overview of the X-20 Dyna-Soar Program

ˇ  3-4     The X-20 Pilots, The X-20 Hardware and Technology

ˇ  3-4     In the Hot Seat: The X-20 Cockpit

ˇ  3-4     The X-20 Pressure Suit

ˇ  3-4     Why the X-20 Program was Canceled

ˇ  3-4     Dyna-Soar and the Development of the Titan III Launch Vehicle

ˇ  11-4     "Risk Management in the X-Planes Era (D-558-II vs X-IA at Mach 2)," by Curtis Peebles

ˇ  13-2     "Secret Boost Glider Projects of the Cold War - America's Winged Space Plane Studies of the 1950s" by Dave Stern

ˇ  13-3     "The Road to Mach 10: A History of the X-43A Test Program at NASA Dryden" by Curtis Peebles

ˇ  13-4     "Secret Boost Glider Porjects of the Cold War (part II)" by Dave Stern

ˇ  14-1     "The Road to Mach 10 - A History of the X-34A Hypersonic Flight Test Program - Part II" - by Curtis Peebles

ˇ  17-1     Rogers Dry Lake Bed: The Role of Nature's Aerodrome in Spaceflight by Matt Berggren

ˇ  17-1     An Interview with Joe Engle: To Space by Stick and Rudder

Launch Vehicles

ˇ  1-3     They Might Be Giants: A History of Project NOVA 1959-1964 Part I

ˇ  1-3     Top Secret Titan and Atlas Revealed.

ˇ  1-4     Titan III & IV

ˇ  2-1     They Might Be Giants: A History of Project Nova 1959-1964 Part II

ˇ  2-1     Diamant A and the First French Satellite

ˇ  2-1     The Navaho XSM-94 Missile.

ˇ  2-2     They Might Be Giants: A History of Project Nova 1959-1964 Part III

ˇ  2-2     Scuds for Science: The V-11-A

ˇ  2-2     Unique Atlas-Agena Configurations

ˇ  2-3     ALSO: Air-Launched Sounding Rocket, The Anonymous Atlas H.

ˇ  2-4     The Viking Rocket: Filling the Gap

ˇ  3-1     A History of Air-Launched Space Vehicles

ˇ  3-1     Three Saturn Vs: A Look at the Remaining Saturn V Hardware

ˇ  3-3     The Secret Life of the Redstone Missile.

ˇ  4-1     The Rockets of GIRD

ˇ  4-2     Letters, Quarter Centuries, Rockets Red Glare

ˇ  4-2     Thor-Able: America's First Moon Rocket

ˇ  4-4     "The Origin of the Rocket-Propelled Spaceship

ˇ  4-4     An Illustrated Chronology of the First Experiments in Space Rocketry

ˇ  4-4     Rockets Red Glare: From Bird Watch Hill

ˇ  5-1     Titan IV Launch Reviews

ˇ  5-2     The Past Revisited: An Unpublished Account Goddard's Pump-fed Rockets

ˇ  5-2     Clusters Last Stand: The Saturn 1

ˇ  5-3     The Hybrid Saturn: Saturn IB

ˇ  5-4     Time Stood Still After Delta II Explosion

ˇ  5-4     New & Improved Titan Launches

ˇ  6-1     The Evolution of Large Solid Propellant Rocketry in the United States

ˇ  6-1     The Curious Case of Draco and the "Secret" Cape Canaveral Launches of 1959

ˇ  7-1     The French Diamant Rockets

ˇ  7-1     Titan II: Sword and Plowshare

ˇ  7-2     Titan II: Research and Development, Part II

ˇ  7-3     Program 437: Thor's Hammer Strikes, Part I

ˇ  7-3     Titan II: Space Launch Vehicle Program, Part III

ˇ  7-4     Program 437: Thor's Hammer Strikes, Part II

ˇ  8-1     The Race to Valhalla: Launching the First Earth Satellite

ˇ  8-2     A Brief History of the Atlas Rocket, Part I

ˇ  8-3     A Brief History of the Atlas Rocket, Part II

ˇ  8-3     From Sea to Space: Evolution of the Sea-Based Launch Concept (Traux Engineering)

ˇ  8-4     The Technical Evolution of the Europa Rocket

ˇ  8-4     A Brief History of the Atlas Rocket Vehicle, Part III

ˇ  9-1     Evolution of the Indian Launch Vehicle

ˇ  9-1     "Lights, Camera, Action: Camera Capsules and the Saturn Launch Vehicle

ˇ  9-4     Effects of a Saturn V Launch Pad Explosion

ˇ  9-4     Atlas-Vega: Early NASA Launch Vehicle Development

ˇ  10-4     Nike-Zeus' Thunder & Lightning: From Antiballistic Missile to Antiballistic Interceptor by Clayton Chun

ˇ  11-1     Launch Vehicles and the Development of Systems Engineering

ˇ  12-3     "Launch Vehicle Human Rating Before the Space Shuttle" by T Harold Robertson

ˇ  13-4     "The AVRO Manned Blue Steel Rocket" by John Allen

ˇ  13-4     "The Pioneer Rocket" by Gideon Marcus

ˇ  14-2     "Pioneering Space" by Gideon Marcus

ˇ  15-1     "Martin-Bell's Alternate 1958 Dyna-Soar I Studies Revealed" by Dave Stern

ˇ  15-1     "The ORDCIT Project at JPL (1943 - 1946) America's First Long Range Missile and Space Exploration Program" by Frank Malina

ˇ  15-2     "The B-9 Incident: Why Did an Atlas Rocket Explode Without Warning"

ˇ  15-3     "America's Manned Scramble to Orbit - The Navaho and the X-15B Plan" by Dave Stern

ˇ  16-2     Saturn Launch Options: A Bellcomm Report

ˇ  17-4    Saturn I Guidance and Control Systems

ˇ  17-4    In Memorium:  Robert Truax


V-2 Rocket

ˇ  1-1     V-2 Ventures: A Look at Early U.S. Testing of the Infamous German Rocket;

ˇ  10-2     Defending Against Hitler's Vengeance - The U.S. Army and the V-2 - by Clayton Chun

ˇ  13-1     "The A4 Rocket - The March 1946 Interrogation of Wernher von Braun by Lt.Commander Robert Truax

ˇ  15-2     "Utilization of the V-2 (A-4) Rocket in Upper Atmosphere Research" by Charles Green

ˇ  15-2     "Broomstick Scientists: Personal Recollections of the Army V-2 Program" by Arnie Crouch

ˇ  15-2     "A-4 Across Germany: Tracing Development of the A-4 (V-2) in Present Day Germany" by Dr. Andrew Thomson

Technology

ˇ  6-3     U.S. Spacecraft Nuclear Power Systems: Past, Present and Future

ˇ  8-2     The Psychological and Social Effects of Isolation on Earth & Space

ˇ  9-4     Calculating Women: A Brief History of the LRWE/WRE Computing Team

ˇ  9-4     Computer Use During the Early Manned American Space Missions

ˇ  13-2     "Cosmic Radiation Pioneers" by Duane Gravelin MD, David Simons MD, and Marcelo Vazquez MD

ˇ  16-3     Atomic Power in Space: A History

ˇ  17-4     Deep Space Navigation: The Apollo 8 Mission

ˇ  17-4    Saturn I Guidance and Control Systems

Commercial Space

ˇ  8-3     Conestoga I: Emergence of the New Pioneers

ˇ  8-4     External Tank Applications: A Brief Overview and Current Status Report

ˇ  9-1     Space, Energy & Crisis

ˇ  9-1     The Industrial Space Facility

ˇ  9-3     Early History of Satellite Insurance

ˇ  9-4     History of Commercialization of Manned Space in Europe

ˇ  10-4     A Commercial Communications Satellite Timeline by Scott Sacknoff

ˇ  12-2     "Getting into the Launch Business - The American Rocket Co Story" - George Koopman Speech w/Commentary by Matthew Trace

ˇ  14-1     "An Interview with Satellite Communications Pioneer Sajjad Durrani" by Michael Geselowitz

ˇ  15-2     "The Cresent Engineering & Research Company"

ˇ  15-2     Statistics & Economics: Human Spaceflight Program Costs in the 1960s

ˇ  15-3     "General Electric: Early Space Age Adventures" by Roy E. Anderson

ˇ  16-2     A Legacy of Service and Corporation: ARCAS by Dr. Roy Houchin II

Remote Sensing & Reconnaissance

ˇ  8-3     Re-Viewing the Earth: Remote Sensing and Cold War Clandestine Knowledge Production.

ˇ  10-3     The Green Hills of Earth - Views of the Earth as Described by Astronauts & Cosmonauts - by Colin Fries

ˇ  11-4     "Canadian Radarsat Program," by Howard Edel, Edryd Shaw, John Falkingham, William Jefferies, Dave Wilson, and Gary Borstad

ˇ  12-1     "Landsat - An Integrated History" by James Allen and Shanaka de Silva

ˇ  12-4     "A Brief History of Commercial High-Resolution Satellite Remote Sensing" by Incigul Polat-Erdogan

Space Suit

ˇ  9-5     Space Suit Backpacks: U.S. Space Portable Life Support Systems

ˇ  12-1     "The Apollo Moon Program at Hamilton Standard" - by Harvey Smith

Space Station

ˇ  13-3     "The Space Station: A Laboratory for Policy Sustainment" by Jeff Bingham

ˇ  13-3     "The Changing Purpose of the Space Station" by James Vedda

Space Shuttle

ˇ  5-1     STS-72 Mission Overview

ˇ  5-1     STS-75 Mission Overview

ˇ  5-3     Shannon Lucid's 188 Days in Space

ˇ  7-2     Revisiting the Challenger

ˇ  10-3     Heated Debates: A History of the Development of the Space Shuttle's Thermal Protection System 1970-1981 - by Brian Woods

ˇ  13-1     "'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)

ˇ  13-2     "The Space Shuttle: 25 Years On (What Does It Mean to Have Reusable Access to Space)" by Dr. Roger Launius

ˇ  14-3     "Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: The Real Story of the Challenger Accident" by Allan McDonald and James Hansen

Hubble Space Telescope

ˇ  17-2    An Interview with Kathryn Sullivan

ˇ  17-2    A Brief History of the Hubble Space Telescope

ˇ  17-2    The Hubble’s Anniversary by Elizabeth Kessler

ˇ  17-2     Reflections of Hubble: Twenty Years and Counting by Hayman Tam


Skylab

ˇ  5-4     Skylab B Unflown Missions, Lost Opportunities

ˇ  9-3     Chicken Little was Right: The Sky(lab) is Falling Down

Exploration / Science

ˇ  1-3     Crashing Success: An Overview of Project Ranger

ˇ  1-4     From Heaven to Hell: The Pioneer Venus Story

ˇ  2-4     A Survey of Surveyor: A Look Back at America's Robotic Lunar Landing Program

ˇ  5-1     A History of the Project Galileo Part 1

ˇ  5-1     EPCOT, NASA and Plant Pathogens in Space

ˇ  5-4     Eight Eyes on Hubble

ˇ  6-2     Craft or System? The Development of Systems Engineering at JPL

ˇ  6-3     "Not Too Wild a Dream": NASA and the Quest for Life in the Solar System

ˇ  7-4     Pathfinding the Rings: The Pioneer Saturn Trajectory Decision

ˇ  8-1     The Robot Explorers of Venus, Part I

ˇ  8-2     The Robot Explorers of Venus, Part II

ˇ  8-3     The Robot Explorers of Venus, Part III

ˇ  9-4     Pioneering the Solar System and Beyond

ˇ  11-4     "Rise of the Machines-Telerobotic Operations in the U.S. Space Program" by Savan Becker

ˇ  12-2     "The Solar System from Earth Orbit" - by Howard Trace

ˇ  12-3     "Astro Projection: Virtual Reality, Telepresence, and the Evolving Human Space Experience" by Savan Becker

ˇ  13-2     "Saturn Observations: Four Hundred Years of Viewing the Planet" by Matt Berggren

ˇ  14-2     "Deep Space 1: A Revolution n Space Exploration" by Erik Conway and Mirella Flores

ˇ  14-3     "Mission to Planet Earth: NASA's Earth Science Program" by Edward Goldstein

ˇ  14-3     - "Pioneering Space, Part II" by Gideon Marcus

ˇ  15-3     "Astrobiology & Robotic Lunar/Planetary Exploration" by Yasushi Sato

ˇ  17-3     An Interview with Thomas Duxbury: The Soviet Phobos and Mars 96 Missions

Mars

ˇ  5-4     The Greatest Story on Planet Mars

ˇ  7-2     Mars-69: The Forgotten Mission to the Red Planet

ˇ 17-4    An Interview with Thomas Duxbury: The Soviet Phobos and Mars 96 Missions   

Manned Spaceflight

ˇ  2-3     The Hunt for Liberty Bell 7

ˇ  2-3     Land Landings for Gemini: NASA's Paraglider Program

ˇ  2-4     Mercury Atlas 10: A Mission Note Flown

ˇ  5-1     30th Anniversary of the World's First "Prox Ops"

ˇ  7-4     Liberty Bell 7, This is Hunt Club 1

ˇ  7-4     The Future of Liberty Bell 7

ˇ  17-1   Survival after Decompression to a Vacuum by John Billingham

Policy

ˇ  1-3     Sputnik: The Shot Heard Around the World

ˇ  4-4     Interagency Rivalry: NASA, The Air Force and MOL

ˇ  6-3     The Icarus Paradox: Air Force Doctrine and Space Technology

ˇ  6-4     A Hare Turned Tortoise: 40 Years of UK Space Policy

ˇ  7-2     Multiple Means to an End: A Reexamination of President Kennedy's Decision to Go to the Moon

ˇ  7-3     Back Down to Earth: A Look Back at Space During the Carter Administration

ˇ  14-4     "Sphere of Influence: The Sputnik Crisis and the Master Narrative" by Roger Launius

ˇ  14-4     "The Sputnik Decision Revisited" by Asif Siddiqi

ˇ  14-4     "Sputnik, Eisenhower, and the Formation of the United States Space Program" by R. Cargill Hall

ˇ  14-4     "Sputnik: The Human Story" by Matt Bille and Erika Lishock

ˇ  14-4     "In Public and Behind Closed Doors: President Eisenhower and Sputnik" by Howard Trace

ˇ  16-1     The Politics of Apollo during the Kennedy Administration

Culture

ˇ  2-1     NASA's Hot Rods: Souped-up Coupes Served Role in space race

ˇ  2-4     Money Talks in Russia

ˇ  2-4     The Russian Space Auction at Sothebys in New York

ˇ  8-1     Space Age Legends: Urban Folk Tales Collected by the NASA Headquarters History Office

ˇ  9-3     Space Age Milestones Celebrated in Music

ˇ  10-2     Collecting Literature in the Space & Rocket Fields, Part I - by Frederick Ordway

ˇ  10-2     Sports Milestones in Space - by Colin Fries

ˇ  10-3     Collecting Literature in the Space & Rocket Fields, Part II & III - by Frederick Ordway

ˇ  11-1     Traditions of the Space Age, by Colin Fries

ˇ  11-3     "Will it Go 'Round in Circles? A Colorful Mosaic of Art Flown in Space." by Colin Fries

ˇ  12-4     "Got Filk? - Lament for Apollo in Modern Science Fiction Folk Music" by Roger Launius

ˇ  12-4     "Charles Lindbergh's Flight into Space-Sculpture Taking Aboard SpaceShipOne" by Colin Fries

ˇ  13-4     "A Hit or a Myth: Critiques of the Space Race in Popular Recordings" by Apollo C. Vignette

ˇ  14-1     "The Birth and Early Rise of “Astronautics: The REP-Hirsch Astronautical Prize, 1928-1940" By Frank H. Winter

ˇ  14-3     "Sci-Fi and the Mobilization of Youth in the Cold War" by Larry Owens

ˇ  15-4     "Selling Symbol & Science: Sputnik and the NASA Office of Public Information" by Kristen Starr

ˇ  17-4     Earthshine Fading:  Collecting the Space Race by David Clow

Media

ˇ  14-4     Media Accounts of Sputnik: Pravda - 7 October 1957

ˇ  14-4     Media Accounts of Sputnik: Houston Chronicle - 4 October 1987

ˇ  16-1     How CBS News Televised Early Space Achievements: Mercury & Gemini

ˇ  16-4     An Interview with Bruce Hall: Reporting Triumph & Tragedy in the Space Shuttle Program

Museums & Archives

ˇ  1-1     From the Sea to the Stars: New Air & Space Museum Opens in Virginia;

ˇ  1-3     Space Center Houston

ˇ  2-1     New Apollo/Saturn V Museum to be Built at KSC

ˇ  3-3     Atlas Shrugged: Future of Historic Monument Up in the Air

ˇ  4-2     Mercury 7 Monument

ˇ  6-1     Interview with Martin Caidin; Air Force Space Command History Office (HQ AFSPC/HO) Archives

ˇ  6-2     The Johnson Space Center Oral History Project

ˇ  6-2     Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center

ˇ  6-3     European Space Agency Archives

ˇ  6-4     The Titan Missile Museum National Historic Landmark

ˇ  7-1     Exhibiting the Space Race -- The Newseum Exhibit

ˇ  7-2     U.S. Space and Rocket Center Archives

ˇ  7-3     JPL Archives: Preserving the History of JPL

ˇ  7-4     Hanger 9 -- Edward White II Memorial Museum: Making the Transition from Air to Space

ˇ  8-1     Space Business Archives

ˇ  8-2     The Foundation of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and the Roots of West German Space Research

ˇ  8-2     Neil Armstrong Air & Space Museum

ˇ  8-3     Smithsonian Breaks Ground for New Facility

ˇ  8-4     Astronautics in the Deutsches Museum

ˇ  9-2     Archival Records of the NASA Ames Research Center

ˇ  9-3     The Astronaut Hall of Fame

ˇ  9-4     The National Space Centre

ˇ  10-1     The Air Force Space Museum

ˇ  10-2     The Russia and U.S. Library of Space Science & Exploration

ˇ  11-1     Exhibit: Space: A Journey to Our Future

ˇ  13-2     "Saving a Saturn V - A Case Study in Artifact Preservation" by Allan Needdell

ˇ  13-4     "The Herman Potocnik Noordung Memorial Centre" by Goran Jovic

China

ˇ  5-3     China's Ancient Rockets

ˇ  6-2     Development of China's Recoverable Satellites

Russia

ˇ  1-1     Salute to Salyut: A History of Soviet Space Station Programs;

ˇ  1-1     More Russian Right Stuff: Commonwealth of Independent States Leaders Create New Space Program;

ˇ  1-2     Russian Lifeboats for Space Station Freedom?

ˇ  1-2     U.S., Russian Agree to Collaborate in Space: Cosmonauts to Fly on Shuttle; Astronauts, Shuttle to Visit Mir.

ˇ  1-4     The Soviet Manned Lunar Program Revealed; The Soviet Manned Circumlunar Program

ˇ  1-4     The N-1 and the Soviet Manned Lunar Landing Program

ˇ  1-4     Chelomei's Alternative Manned Lunar Program

ˇ  2-2     The Russian Space Support Fleet--A Sad End

ˇ  2-2     Mothballed Potential: Energia & Buran

ˇ  2-2     All Suited Up and No Place to Go: Soviet Lunar EVA Suit

ˇ  2-2     More Data on the Soviet Manned Lunar Program

ˇ  2-2     U.S. and Soviet Manned Lunar Landing Projects

ˇ  2-3     The 1963 Soviet Space Platform Project

ˇ  2-3     Semyorka Family Values

ˇ  2-4     Soviet Manned Lunar Programs

ˇ  2-4     Bye, Bye, Buran: Soviet Shuttle Made into Amusement Park Ride

ˇ  3-1     Thirtysomething Vostok...

ˇ  3-1     The NOTSNIK Program: The Top Secret Air-Launched Satellite Attempts of 1958

ˇ  3-3     A Race to the Moon: The Flight of Luna 15

ˇ  3-4     Mourning Star: The Nedelin Disaster

ˇ  4-3     The Soviet Legacy of the V-2

ˇ  5-1     News Items; Cosmonautics

ˇ  5-2     News Items; Cosmonautics

ˇ  5-3     Salyut 1 Experiments

ˇ  5-3     "There It Is!" An Account of the First Dog's-in-Space

ˇ  5-3     Mission Impossible: The Kidnapping of Lunik 5

ˇ  5-3     News Items; Cosmonautics

ˇ  6-1     Soyuz-Based Manned Reconnaissance Spacecraft

ˇ  6-3     Soyuz-1 Revisited: From Myth to Reality

ˇ  6-3     The Early Years of the Molniya Program

ˇ  6-4     Yuri Kondratyuk: Stolen Past, Stolen Future?

ˇ  7-1     Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir

ˇ  7-3     U.S-Soviet/Russian Cosmos Biosatellite Program

ˇ  7-4     Soviet Fractional Orbiting Bombardment Systems (FOBS): A Short Technical History

ˇ  8-1     Elektron: The Soviet Response to Explorer

ˇ  8-3     Ivan T. Kleimyonov: A Talented Organization

ˇ  9-5     The Soviet Buran Space Shuttle

ˇ  11-1     The Moon Race End Game, by Peter Pesavento and Charles Vick

ˇ  11-2     The Moon Race End Game - Part II, by Peter Pesavento and Charles Vick

ˇ  11-3     Letters to the Editor - Peter Pesavento and Charles P. Vick, "Recently Declassified US Documents Highlight Aspects of USSR Manned Lunar Landing Efforts

ˇ  14-4     Sputnik System Specifications

ˇ  15-1     "The Failure of Cosmos 57: A Case History in Telemetry Analysis" by Frank Whitmire and Edward Correll

ˇ  15-2     "The Kidnapping of the Lunik" by Sydney Finer

ˇ  15-4     "Selection of Training of Soviet Cosmonauts" - Archives of the CIA

ˇ  16-3     Gagarin's Last Flight

ˇ  16-4     "Kosmic Konspiracy: How I Learned to Question the Evidence" by Joe Felice

International

ˇ  3-1     Poland's Meteor Sounding Rockets

ˇ  9-2     Australia: Spacefaring Under the Southern Cross

ˇ  10-4     The Chapman Report and the Development of Canada's Space Program by Christopher Gainor

ˇ  11-3     "The Turkish Space Program: Just a Beginning" by Incigul Polat-Erdogan

ˇ  12-2     "Heritage Sites of the U.S. Space Program in Australia" - by Dirk Spennemann and Linda Kosmer

ˇ  12-4     "India's Remote Sensing Program" by Shubhada Savant and Sanithosh Seelan

Ballistic Missile Defense

ˇ  6-2     A Falling Star: SAINT, America's First Anti-satellite System

ˇ  7-1     Missile Defense Alarm: The Genesis of Space-based Infrared Early Warning

ˇ  8-4     The Anti-Ballistic Missile Defense System

ˇ  9-3     Forging America's Shield: Issues of National Missile Deployment

ˇ  9-4     Space-related Strategic Defense in the Soviet Union, Part I

ˇ  10-1     Red Bear on the Prowl - Strategic Warning in the Soviet Union, Part 2

ˇ  12-1     "Safeguard - North Dakota's Front Line in the Cold War" - Gregory Bowen

ˇ  14-1     "The ‘Star Wars” Which Never Happened - Part I by Konstantin Lantratov, Translated from the Russian by Dr. Asif Siddiqi

ˇ  14-2     "The ‘Star Wars” Which Never Happened - Part II by Konstantin Lantratov, Translated from the Russian by Dr. Asif Siddiqi

Corona and Military Reconnaissance

ˇ  4-2     CORONA: America's First Spy Satellite (Part I)

ˇ  4-2     U.S. Reconnaissance Satellite Program Part I: Imaging Satellites

ˇ  4-3     CORONA: America's First Spy Satellite (Part 2)

ˇ  7-1     CORONA: A Program Profile

ˇ  13-4     "An Interview with Frank Buzard Regarding Discoverer/Corona" by Robert Mulcahy

ˇ  15-2     From the Archives: Projecxt Corona - Security in 1960

ˇ  16-4     "The Intelligence Agencies Help Find Whales: Civilian Use of Classified Overhead Photography under Project Argo" by James David
ˇ  17-3     From U-2 to Corona: 50 Years Later by Francis Gary Powers Jr

ˇ  17-3     An Interview with LtGen. Forrest McCartney

ˇ  17-3     What we Officially Know: 15 Years of Satellite Declassification by Jeffery Charlston, NRO

ˇ  17-3     Critical Issues in the History and Histiography of U.S. National Reconnaissance by David Waltrop, NRO

ˇ  17-3     What Should Corona Photograph and How Often? By James David

ˇ  17-3     Eisenhower’s Domestic Perspective on WS-117


MOL Program

ˇ  4-3     A History of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory(MOL) Part 1

ˇ  4-4     Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) Part 2

ˇ  5-2     Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) Part 3

Military

ˇ  1-3     START: Forging Some Swords into Plowshares

ˇ  3-3     Project Adam: The Army's Man in Space Program;

ˇ  4-4     American Reconnaissance Satellites Part 2: Beyond Imaging

ˇ  7-2     Securing the High Ground: The Army's Quest for the Moon

ˇ  8-2     Rashomon in Space: A Short Review of Official Spy Satellite Histories

ˇ  8-3     Navy's Pioneering Venture into the Space Program

ˇ  9-1     Political History of the Establishment of Air Force Space Command

ˇ  9-2     History of the Military Polar Orbiting Meteorological Satellite Program

ˇ  9-5     Reverse Salients in the Air Force Satellite Control Facility 1961-1965

ˇ  10-1     Those Hollywood Spooks and Their Spying Machines - Spy Satellites in Film and Reality

ˇ  11-3     "The NRO in the 21st Century: Ensuring Global Information Supremacy" by R. Cargill Hall

ˇ  11-3     "A History of the United States Anti-Satellite Program and the Evolution to Space Control and Offensive and Defensive Counterspace," Robert Kilgo

ˇ  15-1     "Earth Satellites: A First Look by the U.S. Navy" by R. Cargill Hall

ˇ  15-4     "Reconnaissance and Prestige: Cold War Engines Driving the Creations of a Trinitarian American Space Program in the Early Space Age" by Mark Erickson

ˇ  15-4     "Snooping on Space Pictures" by Henry Plaster, CIA

GPS

ˇ  6-4     GPS & Beyond: How the Aviation Industry is Advancing the Usefulness of GPS

ˇ  11-3     "A Look into the History of American Satellite Navigation," by Chris Banther

ˇ  11-3     Interview with Dr. Bradford Parkinson (the creator of GPS) by Stephen Strom

ˇ  14-3     "TIMATION and the Invention of GPS 1964-1973" by Richard Easton

Astronaut Interviews

ˇ  3-3     Moon Shooter: An Interview with Alan Shepard

ˇ  3-3     Footprints on the Moon: An Interview with Charlie Duke

ˇ  4-1     Down to Earth: Apollo 13 from the CapCom's Chair (Jack Lousma Interview)

ˇ  4-1     Lost Moon-Found Earth (Jim Lovell Interview)

ˇ  4-2     "Freddo" An Interview with Apollo 13 Astronaut Fred Haise

ˇ  5-1     Trailblazing for the Moon: Interview with Jim Lovell

ˇ  5-3     Shannon Lucid; The Triumph and Tragedy of Salyut 1

ˇ  6-2     Alan B. Shepard Interview

ˇ  6-4     James Alton McDivitt Oral History Review

ˇ  7-4     In His Own Words: A Brief Review of the Events Surrounding the Premature Release of Grissom's MR4 Hatch

ˇ  8-4     An Interview with Charles “Pete” Conrad, Jr.

ˇ  10-1     An Interview with Neil Armstrong

ˇ  10-2     The "First Lady of Space" Remembers - Memoirs by Valentina Tereshkova

ˇ  12-3     "An Interview with Robert Crippen by Donald Pealer

ˇ  12-4     Book Review - "First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong" - Book by James Hanson, Review by Tom Crouch

ˇ  12-4     Book Review - "Gus Grissom: The Lost Astronaut" - Book by Ray Boomhower, Review by David Arnold

ˇ  13-1     "Always Aim to Be First - The Yuri Gagarin Story...Using Words from the Cosmonaut, His Family, and Colleagues"

ˇ  13-3     "An Interview with Shannon Lucid" by Mark Davison, Rebecca Wright, and Paul Robbins

ˇ  14-2     "An Interview with Joe Allen - A Scientist, Astronaut, and Entrepreneur Discusses His Career at NASA" by Jennifer Ross-Nazzal

ˇ  14-3     "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

ˇ  16-1     John Glenn: Pilot's Debriefing after the MA-6 Flight: From the USS Noa Recovery Vehicle

ˇ  16-2     An interview with Michael Collins - Gemini X, Apollo 11 by Michelle Kelly

ˇ  16-3     Cosmonaut Number Two

ˇ  17-1    Man, Money, and the Moon: Astronaut Ken Money and the Future of Space Exploration by David Kurtz

ˇ  17-1    To Space with Stick and Rudder, an Interview with Joe Engle    

ˇ  17-2    An Interview with Kathryn Sullivan

ˇ  17-4     An Interview with Edgar Mitchell



Oral History / Interviews

ˇ  5-2     Life Without Dad: An Interview with Scott Grissom

ˇ  5-4     The Excluded: Hermann Oberth and Rudolf Nebel

ˇ  6-3     Richard Nygren

ˇ  7-2     Guenter Wendt

ˇ  7-3     Tasillo Romisch

ˇ  7-4     General Bernard Schriever

ˇ  8-1     Rodney Rose

ˇ  8-2     Walter Mondale

ˇ  8-3     Sen. Edwin Jacob "Jake" Garn

ˇ  8-4     James A. Chamberlin: A Forgotten Leader of the U.S. Space Program

ˇ  9-1     Alan Rochford

ˇ  9-2     Colonel Thomas Haig

ˇ  9-3     Owen Maynard: Lunar Module Pioneer from Canada

ˇ  9-3     Remembering the Space Race with Walter Cronkite

ˇ  9-5     Eilene Galloway

ˇ  10-2     Edward Fendell - by Kevin Rusnak

ˇ  10-3     Joseph Wambolt - Principal Director, Aerospace Corporation

ˇ  10-4     H. Morgan Smith (NASA Astronaut Survival Training School) by Rebecca Wright

ˇ  11-1     Joseph Kerwin by Kevin Rusnak

ˇ  11-2     Gemini and Apollo Flight Controller John Aaron by Kevin Rusnak

ˇ  11-4     Neil Hutchinson (Space Station Program Manager) by Jennifer Ross-Nazzal

ˇ  12-2     Max Faget (A discussion on the Space Shuttle) by Carol Butler

ˇ  12-4     Robert Heselmeyer - edited by Sandra Johnson

ˇ  13-1     Charles Mathews by Donald Pealer

ˇ  13-2     Simon Ramo - The 'R' in TRW" by Rober Mulcahy

ˇ  15-1     Konrad Dannenberg by Roger Launius, Lori Walters, and Stanley Starr

ˇ  15-2     Eberhardt Rechtin: Architect of the Deep Space Network" by Frederik Nebeker

ˇ  15-3     Robert C. Seamans, Jr - Decisions with Lunar Proportions"

ˇ  15-4     George M. Low - Gemini Program Decisions

ˇ  16-3     Chris Kraft - The Courageous Flight of Apollo 8 by Rebecca Wright

ˇ  16-4     Joe Gavin Jr: Engineering a Vehicle for Another World

ˇ  17-2    Artist Robert McCall

ˇ  17-3     Lt. Gen Forrest McCartney

ˇ  17-4     Thomas Duxbury: Soviet Phobos and Mars 96 Missions

 

Miscellaneous Biography / Oral history

ˇ  1-4     Dennis Jenkins Interview: The Past, Present and Future of the Space Shuttle Program

ˇ  2-1     Nancy Yasecko on "Growing Up with Rockets;"

ˇ  2-2     A Pioneer of Space: Georgi Grechko's Story

ˇ  5-2     David Lasser: Spaceflight Visionary

ˇ  14-1     "'He Introduced the Word 'Cosmonautics': The Story of Ary Sternfeld, a Forgotten Space Pioneer" by Michael Gruntman

ˇ  14-1     "Byron’s Story… A 50-Year Odyssey from Young Rocketeer to Auto Safety Expert" by Byron Bloch

ˇ  16-4     An Ordinary Joe Lives His Dream When He Least Expected It by Joe Lennox

Early Human Spaceflight Activity

ˇ  1-1     Getting a Piece of the Rock: NASA's Lunar Sample Education Program.

ˇ  1-4     Destination Moon: U.S. and Soviet Manned Lunar Hardware Compared.

ˇ  2-1     Rocket Men In Their Rocket Ships: The Astronauts and Their Corvettes

ˇ  3-3     Apollo 11 at 25

ˇ  3-3     "It's Time to Go" A Salute to Apollo

ˇ  3-3     Spider Talk: Builders of the LM Reunite for 25th Anniversary

ˇ  3-3     Project Apollo Bibliography of Books

ˇ  3-3     The German Space Pioneers: An Interview with Marsha Freeman

ˇ  3-3     Moon Men: An Interview with Andrew Chaikin author of "A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts"

ˇ  3-3     Celebrating Apollo at Home: A Look at the Various Model Kits Produced of the Saturn V

ˇ  4-1     Houston, We've Had A Problem (The Mission of Apollo 13)

ˇ  4-1     E Pluribus Unum: Apollo 13 and American Unity

ˇ  4-3     A Piece of the Action: An Exhibit on the Making of APOLLO 13

ˇ  4-3     "Houston, We Have a Problem": A Nitpicker's Guide to APOLLO 13 the Movie

ˇ  4-3     Mighty Moon Machine Hits the Big Screen: Modeling the Saturn V for the Movies

ˇ  4-3     Read More About It: Books on Apollo 13

ˇ  4-3     The Real Thing: Original Apollo 13 hardware on display

ˇ  4-4     Preserving Moon Rocks

ˇ  4-4     Apollo's Top Ten Discoveries

ˇ  4-4     Viewing Moon Rocks

ˇ  4-4     Dusting Off the Moon Machines

ˇ  5-4     Apollo One: A Memorial Ceremony

ˇ  5-4     Tracing Apollo One: A Spacecraft Chronology

ˇ  6-1     Buzz Aldrin's Return to Earth: The Astronaut and Social Values in Apollo-Era America

ˇ  6-2     Before the Fire: NASA's Plans for Apollo

ˇ  6-2     Training for Lunar Landing: The LLRV and LLTV

ˇ  6-4     Why "Apollo 1?" The Numbering of Apollo Missions

ˇ  8-4     The One-Way Manned Mission to the Moon

ˇ  8-4     E and E-Prime - The Forgotten Apollo Missions

ˇ  9-1     Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: "In Tune" with Détente

ˇ  9-2     The First Apollo 2: Operations Planned for "The Leaping Green Frog"

ˇ  9-5     The Tragic Story of Apollo 1

ˇ  10-2     Slayton's Unexpected Orders - by John Charles

ˇ  10-4     A Pinpoint on the Ocean of Storms: Finding the Target for Apollo 12 by David Clow & Ewen Whitaker

ˇ  12-1     "An Interview with Jay Honeycutt" by Rebecca Wright

ˇ  12-1     "A Day in the Life of the NASA Astronaut Corps - January 27, 1967" by John Charles

ˇ  12-1     Photo Book Review -- "Building Moonships - The Grumman Lunar Module"

ˇ  12-2     "Recollections of Max Faget: Colleague, Mentor, and Friend" by Dr. Joe Allen

ˇ  12-3     "Apollo Panoramas" by Mike Constantine

ˇ  12-4     "Apollo and the Origin of the Moon" by Christopher Gainor

ˇ  13-1     "Taking the First Step: Science on Apollo 11" by Christopher Gainor

ˇ  13-1     "Reliability in the Apollo Program" by Yasushi Sato

ˇ  13-4     "Convair's Apollo Lunar Excursion Module Proposal - The Forgotten LEM" by Paul Carsola

ˇ  14-2     "'How to Land Next to a Surveyor: Bill Tindall and the Apollo Pinpoint Lunar Landing" by Andrew Baird

ˇ  15-1     "The Lunar Exploration Scrapbook: A Pictoral History of Lunar Vehicles" by Rober Godwin, Apogee Books

ˇ  16-1     An interview with Paul Calle

ˇ  16-1     The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: Detente and the Cold War

ˇ  16-2     Commemorative Medals and Apollo 11 Symbolism by Dr. Margaret Weitekamp

ˇ  16-2     The Man in the Moon will be Your Husband by Fifi Booth

ˇ  16-2     Political and Technical Aspects of Planting a Flag on the Moon by Annie Platoff

ˇ  16-2     Teaching Geology to Astronauts by Gary Lofgren

ˇ  16-2     Apollo: A Young Engineer's Perspective

ˇ  16-2     The Apollo Era: Working at NASA Marshall in the 1960s

ˇ  16-2     Movie Review: Orphans of Apollo, A Michael Potter film

ˇ  16-3     Seeing Earth: A New Look at the Apollo 8 Earthrise Photograph by Jennifer Levasseur

ˇ  16-4     "The Elusive Human Maximum Altitude Record" by Daniel Adamo

ˇ  17-1   Survival after Decompression to a Vacuum by John Billingham

ˇ  17-1   The Animal Test Program: The MR-2 and MA-5 Flights

Book & Movie Reviews

ˇ  2-3     The Right Stuff, The Wrong Story: A "Hollywood History" Blurs the Truth Behind America's Second Manned Spaceflight

ˇ  6-4     Watch the Skies (Chat with the Author)

ˇ  7-3     Last Man on the Moon

ˇ  7-3     The Race: The Uncensored Story of How America Beat Russia to the Moon

ˇ  7-3     Space Station: The Journey Begins

ˇ  9-1     Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race 1945-1974

ˇ  9-2     The Moon Hunters

ˇ  9-2     The Unbroken Chain

ˇ  9-4     "Beyond the Moon: A Golden Age of Planetary Exploration 1971-1978"

ˇ  9-4     "Sputnik: The Shock of the Century"

ˇ  9-5     "Moonstruck - Werner von Braun and the Birth of Space Travel Out of the Spirit of Barbarism"

ˇ  10-4     Exploring Space, Exploring Earth - New Understanding of the Earth from Space Research

ˇ  10-4     We Have Capture - Tom Stafford and the Space Race

ˇ  11-4     "Lost in Space: The Fall of NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age" written by Greg Klerkx, reviewed by Kristen Starr

ˇ  11-4     “To the End of the Solar System: The Story of the Nuclear Rocket" written by James Dewar, reviewed by Stephen Johnson

ˇ  13-1     "Shades of Gray: National Security and the Evolution of Space Reconnaissance". Book by L. Parker Temple III. Review by Dr. Roger Launius

ˇ  13-1     "Heavens Fill with Commerce". Book by Virgil Labrador and Peter Galace. Review by Scott Sacknoff

ˇ  13-2     "Sky Walking: An Astronaut Memoir" Book by Tom Jones, Review by Valerie Neal

ˇ  13-2     "Testing the Limits: Aviation Medicine & the Origins of Manned Space Flight" Book by Maura Phillips Mackowski, Review by Prof. Nicholas de Monchaux

ˇ  13-3     "Riding Rockets: Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut" by Mike Mullane, Review by Valerie Neal

ˇ  13-4     'Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity & The Exploration ofthe Red Planet' - Book by Steve Squyres, Review by Dr. David Fisher

ˇ  14-1     "The Human Experiment - Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside the Biosphere 2" by Jane Poynter

ˇ  14-1     "International Space Commerce"

ˇ  14-2     'Spacepower for a New Millenium: Space & National Security' by Hays, Smith, van Tassel, and Walsh

ˇ  14-2     'Inventions from Outer Space: Everyday Uses for NASA Technology' by David Baker

ˇ  14-2     'Space 50' by Piers Bizony

ˇ  14-2     'Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed' by Jared Diamond

ˇ  14-3     Too Far From Home" by Chris Jones

ˇ  14-3     'Spying from Space: Constructing America's Command and Control System" by David Arnold

ˇ  14-3     'Stargazer: The Life and Times of the Telescope' by Fred Watson

ˇ  14-3     'Project Mars: A Technical Tale' by Wernher von Braun

ˇ  14-3     'Religions of Star Trek' by Kraemer, Cassidy & Schwartz

ˇ  14-4     "The Gaither Committee, Eisenhower, and the Cold War" by David Snead

ˇ  14-4     "Spy Satellites and other Intelligence Technologies that Changed History" by Thomas Graham Jr and Keith Hansen

ˇ  14-4     Movie Review: "The Fever of '57"

ˇ  15-1     "We Came in Peace for all Mankind: The Apollo 11 Silicon Disk" by Tahir Rahman, review by Dr. Margaret Weitekamp

ˇ  15-1     "Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age" by Matthew Brzezinski, review by Dr. Roger Launius

ˇ  15-2     "Spies in the Sky: Surveillance Satellites in War and Peace" by Pat Norris, review by David Arnold

ˇ  15-2         Review: "von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War" by Michael Neufeld, review by Donald Baucom

ˇ  15-3     "Read you Loud and Clear! The Story of NASA's Spaceflight & Data Network" by Sunny Tsiao, review by David Arnold

ˇ  15-3     "Canada's Fifty Years in Space" by Gordon Shepherd & Agnes Kruchio, review by Christopher Gainor

ˇ  15-3     "In the Shadow of the Moon" by Colin Burgess and Francis French, review by Tyler Peterson

ˇ  15-4     'U.S. Space Launch Vehicle Technology', book by J.D. Hunley, review by Dr. Roger Launius

ˇ  15-4     'Slipping the Surly Bonds: Reagan's Challenger Address', book by Mary Stuckey, review by Dr. Roger Launius

ˇ  16-2     Project Vangard: The NASA History by McLaughlin-Green/Lomask

ˇ  16-2     Chariots for Apollo by Brooks/Grimwood/Swenson

ˇ  16-2     Digital Apollo by David Mindell

ˇ  16-2     Decoding the Heavens by Jo Marchant

ˇ  16-2     The Very First Light by Mather/Boslough

ˇ  16-3     The Adaptive Optics Revolution

ˇ  16-3     On Mars: Exploration of the Red Planet

ˇ  16-3     Picturing Apollo: Illustrated Histories Commemorating the Moon Landings by Dr. Roger Launius

ˇ  16-4     A Dictionary of the Space Age

ˇ  16-4     The Space Shuttle Program: How NASA Lost its Way

ˇ  16-4     Missiles for the Fatherland: Peenemunde, National Socialism, and the V-2 Missile

ˇ  16-4     The Adaptive Optics Revolution

ˇ  16-4     The Saturn V, F-1 Engine: Powering Apollo into History

ˇ  17-1     A Fiery Peace in a Cold War, book by Neil Sheehan, review by Rick Sturdevant

ˇ  17-1     For the Soul of Mankind, book by Melvyn Leffler, review by Dr. Roger Launius

ˇ  17-1     Rocketbelt Pilot Manual: A Guide by the Bell Test Pilot, book by William Suitor, review by Dave Stern

ˇ  17-1     The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets, book by Alan Boss, review by Dr. Roger Launius

ˇ  17-2     Truth, Lies, and O-Rings

ˇ  17-2     Media, NASA, and America’s Quest for the Moon

ˇ  17-2     Live from the Moon: Film, Television, and the Space Race

ˇ  17-2     Magnificent Desolation

ˇ  17-2     IMAX Hubble 3D

ˇ  17-2    Heavenly Ambitions: America’s Quest to Dominate Space

ˇ  17-2    My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer

ˇ  17-3    Space Travel and Culture: From Apollo to Space Tourism

ˇ  17-3    Red Kosmos: K.E. Tsiolkovskii, Grandfather of Soviet Rocketry

ˇ  17-3     Voyager: Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery

ˇ  17-3     The Case for Pluto

ˇ  17-4     Lunar Impact: The History of Project Ranger

ˇ  17-4     Space Exploration and Humanity: A Historical Encyclopedia

ˇ  17-4     Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute: The Memoirs of George A. Cowan

ˇ  17-4     Another Science Fiction:  Advertising the Space Race 1957-1962

ˇ  17-4     The Book of the Moon


Miscellaneous

ˇ  1-1     The Minsk Agreement on Joint Activity in Space Research and Exploration;

ˇ  1-2     The 'Meatball' Is Back!: A Look at the Origins of NASA Insignias and Crew Patches

ˇ  1-2     Spaceport Michigan: When Rockets Flew from the Great Lakes State

ˇ  1-3     More on the 'Meatball'

ˇ  1-3     Life, the Universe and CD-ROMS

ˇ  2-1     Two Decades Later, Another Hand Shake in Space

ˇ  2-2     The Lockheed CL-635

ˇ  4-1     Is It Now Possible to Attempt a Voyage From The Earth to the Moon? by Luigi Gussalli

ˇ  5-1     From Pencils to Planets

ˇ  6-2     Godspeed and War Eagle: Auburn University's Astronautical History

ˇ  6-4     Walter Orr Roberts & the Development of Boulder's Aerospace Community

ˇ  7-1     Marlowe Cassetti

ˇ  7-1     Space and the American Imagination.

ˇ  10-4     History of Human Spaceflight Mission Operations by Ken Peek

ˇ  11-4     "Chronicling Space-Adventures in Space History" by Matt Billie with Erika Lishock

ˇ  12-3     "Outer Space Exploration from Utah: Leon Linford & Rocket Science" by Doran Baker & Kay Baker

ˇ  13-3     "Malinowski in Orbit: 'Magical Thinking' in Human Spaceflight" by Deana Weibel & Glen Swanson