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Primary References, Alphabetical by Author (# 328) - "Air-Launch aerospace complex", Leaflet by Kompomash and Polyot Aviation Company, ILA 97 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 362) - "History of the HL-20", . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://vab02.larc.nasa.gov/Activities/HL20/HL-20history.html. (# 567) - "Personal communication", Personal communication from family member or person directly involved with the article.. (# 261) - A Laser-Fusion Rocket Propulsion System, p. 198. (# 271) - Acronyms and Abbreviations, NASA, Education Division, 1997. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://spacelink.nasa.gov/. (# 208) - Advanced Gemini Spacecraft, Briefing, McDonnell Douglas, ca. 1967. Comment: Thanks to Mike Macowski for discovering and providing this material. (# 405) - Aerospace Yearbook, 1966, . (# 553) - AEROTECH News and Review - Journal of Aerospace and Defense Industry News, "Stennis tests powerful TRW engine, second largest tested in U.S.", Sept. 26th, 2000. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.aerotechnews.com/starc/2000/092600/TRW_Engine.html. (# 435) - AFFTC - Air Force Flight Test Center Home Page, August 23, 1999.. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://afftc.edwards.af.mil/pnov97/cover/ridley.html. (# 570) - Air Force Link, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.af.mil/. (# 70) - Air International, 1992, Issue 9, page 149. (# 547) - Aqua Home Page, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://aqua.gsfc.nasa.gov/. (# 4465) - Aquarius: Economic Value of a Consumables Launcher, Space Grant C00-0200 Final Briefing - 25 June 2002 (with 28 June updates). HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.astronautix.com/data/aquarius.pdf. (# 479) - ASTRO-E Home Page, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/astroe_lc/what.html. (# 242) - Atlas - General Dynamics Commercial Launch Services, General Dynamics brochure, 1989. (# 416) - Atlas Launch System Mission Planner's Guide, Lockheed Martin Astronautics, January 1999. (# 462) - Aviation Week & Space Technology, "SHARP Gun Accelerates Scramjets to Mach 9", 1996-09-09, p. 63. (# 265) - Aviation Week and Space Technology, "Air Force Studies MLV", 1986-08-04, page 34. (# 262) - Aviation Week and Space Technology, "Boeing Studies Sortie Concept", ca 1987. (# 264) - Aviation Week and Space Technology, "Britain Urges ESA Members to Join HOTOL Development Project", 1985-06-17, page 91. (# 187) - Aviation Week and Space Technology, "Docked Soyuz Spacecrft Are Displayed in Moscow", 1970-05-18, page 66. (# 263) - Aviation Week and Space Technology, "Expanded Utilization of Shuttle Studied", 1976-11-08, page 135. (# 4476) - Aviation Week and Space Technology, "Eyes on China and Iran", 9 April 2007, page 48. (# 185) - Aviation Week and Space Technology, "Fuel, Sensors Limit Soyuz Maneuvering", 1974-01-28, page 36. (# 198) - Aviation Week and Space Technology, "HL-20", 1991-07-15, page 52. (# 236) - Aviation Week and Space Technology, "HOTOL-2", 1991-09-09, page 68. (# 235) - Aviation Week and Space Technology, "Hughes Designs Advanced Launch System Using Strap-on Propulsion Modules", 1988-04-04, page 23. (# 268) - Aviation Week and Space Technology, "SDI Considers Cluster Booster to Launch Zenith Star Spacecraft", 1987-11-30, page 20. (# 282) - Aviation Week and Space Technology, "Single Stage to Orbit", 1991-08-26, page 15.. (# 186) - Aviation Week and Space Technology, "Soyuz Design Details Revealed", 1974-01-21, page 38. (# 188) - Aviation Week and Space Technology, "Soyuz Spacecraft Shown by Soviets at Japan's Expo 70", 1970-07-25, page 55. (# 239) - Aviation Week and Space Technology, "Starstruck Launches Prototype Dolphin Rocket in First Flight", 1984-08-12, page 20. (# 510) - AW&ST, "Reusable Space Ferry Considered", AW&ST 1969/June16/p.57. (# 454) - Beal Aerospace Technologies Home Page, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.bealaerospace.com/. (# 207) - Big G, Briefing, McDonnell Douglas, 20 December 1967. Comment: Thanks to Mike Macowski for discovering and providing this material. (# 302) - Buran Home Page, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.buran.ru/homepage.htm. (# 95) - Burya article, Lavochkin web site. (# 426) - California SpacePort Home Page, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.calspace.com/. (# 467) - Cape Business News, "South Africa - New life for local space programme", CBN Archive - September 1997.. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.cbn.co.za/archive/97-sep/cbnro.htm. (# 285) - China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, As of Nov 1998. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.calt.com.cn/. (# 441) - China Lake Weapons Digest, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.nawcwpns.navy.mil/~bronkhor/clmf/weapdig.html. (# 530) - China's Space Activities, The State Council Information Office, P.R.C., November, 2000. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.astronautix.com/articles/chiities.htm. Comment: The official short and long range plan for the Chinese Space Program as of November 2000. (# 543) - Chinese Academy of Sciences Web Site, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.casad.ac.cn/. (# 584) - Columbiad Launch Services web site, As of November 2003. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.columbiad.ca/. (# 4466) - Commercial Space Transportation 2006 - Commercial Space Transportation Developments and Concepts: Vehicles, Technologies and Spaceports, Federal Aviation Administration Office of Commercial Space Transportation, January 2006. (# 10) - Conquerors of Space, The Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center, 1997. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://howe.iki.rssi.ru/GCTC/gctc_e.htm. (# 557) - Contemporary newspaper articles, 1952-1964, Collected and provided by Harald Lutz. (# 546) - CONTOUR Press Kit, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.contour2002.org/. (# 4469) - CRAF/Cassini Status Report, December 17, 1991. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): ftp://ftp.seds.org/pub/spacecraft/CRAF/craf12.17.91.2. (# 556) - Cuxhaven - Im Zeitalter der Raketen, "Wolf, Sonja", Unpublished manuscript, Cuxhaven City Archives, August 1986. Provided by Harald Lutz.. (# 551) - DASH Home Page, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.isas.ac.jp/dtc/dash-e/dash-e.html. (# 1998) - Deep Space Expeditions Web Site, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.deepspaceexpeditions.com/index.html. (# 599) - DESTINATION MOON: A History of the Lunar Orbiter Program, NASA TM-3487. (# 4482) - Environmental Control Systems Selection for Manned Space Vehicles - Volume II: Appendix I -- Missions. Vehicles, and Equipment, USAF Technical Report No. ASD-TK-61-240, PT. II. VOL. II. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.astronautix.com/data/lentic.pdf. (# 550) - Envisat Home Page, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://envisat.esa.int/. (# 728) - European Space Agency web site, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.esa.int/. (# 1981) - Europespace website, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://membres.lycos.fr/europespace/. (# 433) - Federation of American Scientists Web Site, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.fas.org/. (# 209) - Gemini-Derived Lunar Rescue Vehicles, Briefing, McDonnell Douglas, ca. 1966. Comment: Thanks to Mike Macowski for discovering and providing this material. (# 548) - GRACE Home Page, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/spacecraft/config.html. (# 406) - Great Wall Corporation Web Site, As of May 1999. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://space.cgwic.com/. (# 260) - Hall Effect Thrusters with Anode Layer, TsNIIMASH-Export Ltd Sales Brochure, 1996. (# 444) - Hughes HS 702 Fact Sheet, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.hughespace.com/factsheets/702/702.html. (# 549) - IAI Home Page, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.iai.co.il/. (# 248) - Interplanetary Spacecraft, . (# 466) - Introduction to the RSA-4 Launch Vehicle, Sales brochure, Houwteq, undated.. (# 6) - JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html. (# 4484) - KBKhA Web Site, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.kbkha.ru/. (# 346) - Launch Kit Flight 02, Starsem Paris 1999 (http://www.starsem.com/newsst_kit.html) via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 681) - Lebanon Veteran's Home Page, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.veteranen.info/~cedarsouthlebanon/index.en.html. (# 407) - Mars Polar Lander Home Page, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.marspolarlander.com/. (# 219) - Mission Planner's Manual - Proton Commercial Launch Vehicle, Space Commerce Corporation, Houston, TX 1989. (# 11) - NASA - JSC Digital Image Collection, Johnson Space Center, NASA, 1997. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/html/home.htm. (# 12) - NASA Astronaut Biographies, Johnson Space Center, NASA, 1995-present. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/. (# 459) - NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Web Site, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/. (# 363) - NASA Facts On-Line, "HL-20 MODEL FOR PERSONNEL LAUNCH SYSTEM RESEARCH", NF172 - April 1992. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://oea.larc.nasa.gov/PAIS/HL-20.html. (# 276) - NASA GSFC Orbital Parameters, . (# 7) - NASA Shuttle and ISS Mission Press Kits and News Releases, NASA, 1981-present. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.nasa.gov/. (# 8) - NASA Shuttle-Mir Web, NASA, 1997. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://shuttle-mir.nasa.gov/ops/mir/. (# 15) - NASA Space Shuttle Launches, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, 1996. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/missions.html. (# 509) - NASA Space Shuttle Summary Report, Revision 1, July 31, 1969. (# 298) - NASA’s Life Sciences Data Archive (LSDA), . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/life.htm#top. (# 552) - NASA/GSFC Orbital Information Group Website, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://oig1.gsfc.nasa.gov/. (# 201) - National Space Goals for Post-Apollo Period, House of Representatives Hearings, 1965. (# 296) - National Space Science Center Planetary Page, As of 19 February 1999.. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetary_home.html. (# 104) - Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "'Bion' nuzhen lyudyam", 1996, Issue 6, page 35. (# 103) - Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "Apparati TsSKB dlya issledobanniya prirodnikh resursov Zemli", 1996, Issue 6, page 40. (# 116) - Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "AUOSi prodolzhayut rabotu", 1995, Issue 21, page 43. (# 100) - Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "K voprosy o sputnikakh 'Oko'", 1997, Issue 15, page 45. (# 112) - Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "Kommentariy k zapysky KA 'Kosmos-2291'", 1994, Issue 22, page 47. (# 118) - Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "Na Mars!", 1996, Issue 20, page 53. (# 101) - Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "Neudachniy pusk KA 'Kometa'", 1996, Issue 6, page 32. (# 227) - Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "Osobennosti konstruktsii dvigatelya KVD-1", 1994, Issue 6, page 38. (# 117) - Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "Osushestvlen zapusk ISZ 'Kosmos-2322'", 1995, Issue 22, page 33. (# 65) - Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "Otmenenniy Start "Molniya-M"", 1997, Issue 1, page 29. (# 226) - Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "Podprobnosti o RN 'Rus'", 1996, Issue 6, page 20. (# 113) - Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "Proizveden zapusk KA 'Resurs O1' No 3", 1994, Issue 22, page 46. (# 106) - Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "Rossiya. V Polyote 'Kosmos-2343'", 1997, Issue 10, page 35. (# 107) - Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "Rossiya. V polyote 'Kosmos-2345'", 1997, Issue 17, page 31. (# 105) - Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "Rossiya. Zapushcheni 3 KA 'Gonets' i KA 'Kosmos-2337, 2338, 2339'", 1997, Issue 4, page 54. (# 114) - Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "Zapushchen sputnik 'Geo-IK'", 1994, Issue 24, page 23. (# 111) - Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "Zapushchen sputnik 'Gorizont'", 1996, Issue 2, page 24. (# 115) - Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "Zapushchen sputnik 'Meteor-3' No.7", 1994, Issue 2, page 30. (# 357) - Novosti kosmonavtiki, Issue 11, 1997 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 412) - Novosti kosmonavtiki, Issue 15, 1995. (# 359) - Novosti kosmonavtiki, Issue 2, 1999 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 403) - Novosti kosmonavtiki, Issue 3, 1999. (# 352) - Novosti kosmonavtiki, Issues. 21-22, 1998 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 297) - NSSDC System for Information Retrieval and Storage (SIRS), . (# 1980) - Objective List of German and Austrian Scientists, Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency, 2 January 1947. (# 580) - Official Site of the Topic, Information obtained from the manufacturer or operator's official web site. (# 90) - Patrick AFB Chronology, . (# 586) - Personal communication., . Comment: Personal communication from the person or institution that is the topic of the entry, or a relative of the person who is the topic of the entry. (# 195) - Placard, Baikonur Museum, . (# 196) - Placard, Kaluga Museum, . (# 194) - Placard, Orevo Museum of MAI, . (# 193) - Placard, TsNIIMASH Museum, . (# 4480) - Popular Mechanics, "U.S. Air Force's Nuclear Flying Saucer", November 2000. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1281221.html. (# 427) - Pratt & Whitney Home Page, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.pratt-whitney.com/. (# 587) - Pravda news service web site, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://newsfromrussia.com/. (# 501) - Prishlo Vremya Rasskazat, "Yadernie Raketnie Dvigateli", No. 6-96, page 53. (# 92) - Project "Thunderwell", Air & Space Smithsonian Feb-Mar 1992. (# 413) - Proton Mission Planner's Guide, International Launch Systems, Issue 1 rev. 4, 1 March 1999. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.ilslaunch.com/ILS/services/mpg/index.htm. (# 4475) - Public records, . Comment: Original public records - birth, marriage, death, census, immigration, etc. (# 354) - RD-170, Information leaflet from Pratt & Whitney, dated 1/95 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 355) - RD-180, Information leaflet from Pratt & Whitney, dated 5/97 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 561) - Relikte in Niedersachsen und Bremen, "Der Schießplatz Altenwalde", . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://home.t-online.de/home/relikte/index.htm. (# 500) - RL10 Derviative Options, Pratt and Whitney Fact Sheet, ca. 1995.. (# 240) - Rocket Testing a safe bet in South Africa, Johannesburg Star, October 15-21, 1992. (# 353) - ROCKOT Users Guide, Issue 2, Rev. 0, Eurockot Launch Services, Bremen 1998. via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 528) - RSC Energia Web Site, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.energia.ru/. (# 342) - Russian Arms Catalogue, Vol 5 and 6, Military Parade, Moscow via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 319) - Russian Space Industry, Federation of American Scentists Web Pages, 1998 via Dietrich Haeseler. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.fas.org/spp/civil/russia/. (# 230) - Saturn V Improvement Study, Final report, NASA Contract NAS8-11359. (# 592) - Scaled Composites Web Site, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.scaled.com/. (# 558) - SFE - Seliger Forschungs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mgH., Company brochure, ca. 1964. Provided by Harald Lutz.. (# 576) - Sounding Rockets, Friends of CRC Web Site. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://friendsofcrc.ca/PropagationResearch/rocket.html. (# 468) - South Africa's Nuclear Autopsy, "The Risk Report", Volume 2 Number 1 (January-February 1996) Page 4, 5, 10.. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.wisconsinproject.org/countries/safrica/autopsy.html. (# 241) - South African Air Force Museum - RSA-3 Exhibits, . (# 345) - Soyuz Launcher User Manual, via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 536) - Space Adventures Web Site, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.spaceadventures.com/. (# 519) - Space World, "All-Purpose Moon Vehicle", 1964/December/p.16. (# 517) - Space World, "Pegasus", 1964/December/p.20. (# 554) - Space-Launcher.com, Orbital Report News Agency. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.orbireport.com/Log.html. (# 145) - Spaceflight, "Most Efficient Chemical Rocket", 1978, Volume 20, page 153. Comment: ASE Description. (# 525) - Spaceflight, "Space Transporter Study", 1965/p.124. (# 564) - Spectrum Astro Web Site, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.spectrumastro.com/. (# 98) - Suborbital flights listing (internet post), . (# 555) - TELI Web Site, "Abschied von Friedrich Staats", TELI e.V. - Journalistenvereinigung für technisch-wissenschaftliche Publizistik, January 2003. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.teli.de/html/ausderteli/ausderteli.html. (# 305) - The Project Horizon Report, US Army, 9 June 1959. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.astronautix.com/articles/propter1.htm. (# 560) - The Robert S Hartman Institute, "Hartman, Zucker, and Rockets", . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.hartmaninstitute.org/html/Missionandpurpose.html. (# 559) - The Rocket Mail Page, "Roales, Paul A", . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://home.ionet.net/~paroales/page1.htm. (# 489) - The Space Suit Page, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://strangeblue.iwarp.com/spacesuits/advanced.html. (# 410) - Thiokol Corporation Web Site, As of May, 1999. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.thiokol.com. (# 223) - Titan Marketing Brochure, Martin Company, 1967. (# 568) - TUBSAT Project Homepage, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.ilr.tu-berlin.de/RFA/index.htm. (# 569) - US Air Force Space Command Home Page, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.spacecom.af.mil/. (# 1) - USAF Satellite Database, USAF Institute of Technology, 1995. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): ftp://archive.afit.af.mil/pub/space/. (# 562) - V2 Rocket.com, "Operation Backfire", . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.v2rocket.com/start/about-start.html. (# 726) - V2Rocket.Com A-4/V-2 Resource Site, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.v2rocket.com/start/start.html. (# 581) - Video presentation, IAF Bremen, September 2003. (# 4478) - Walter Cunningham Web Site, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.waltercunningham.com. (# 434) - Xinhua News Agency, "Press dispatches", . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://xinhua.org/. (# 4477) - Yuzhnoye Company Web Site, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.yuzhnoye.com/. (# 97) - Zhelyez x-plane book, . (# 191) - Afanasyev, I B, Neizvestnie korabli, Kosmonavtika, Astronomiya, Znanie, 12-91.. Comment: This basic monograph revealed for the first time the many cancelled Soviet manned space projects. (# 304) - Afanasyev, Igor, Krasnaya Zvezda, "Kosmoplan", 26 August 1995.. (# 273) - Afanasyev, Igor, Novosti kosmonavtiki, "35 let RN Proton", 1998, Issue 5, page 40. (# 729) - Afanasyev, Igor, R-12 Sandolovoye derevo, Exprint NV Ltd, Moscow, 1997. Comment: The history of the R-12 IRBM in detail. (# 99) - Agapov, V, Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "K zapusku pervovo ISZ serii 'DS'", 1997, Issue 6. (# 275) - Agapov, V, Novosti kosmonavtiki, "Tablitsa zapuskov transportnikh gruzovikh korabley tipa 'Progress' i 'Progress M'", 1998, Issue 7, page 46. (# 93) - Agapov, V, Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "Zapuski kosmicheskikh apparatov 'Zenit-2'", 1996, Issue 10, page 65. (# 606) - Aldrin, Buzz with McConnell, Malcolm, Men from Earth, Bantam, 1989. More at amazon.com... Comment: Astronaut autobiography. (# 607) - Aldrin, Edwin E, Return to Earth, Random House, 1973. More at amazon.com... Comment: Astronaut autobiography. (# 233) - Alexander, George, Aviation Week and Space Technology, "Manned Flight Planning Gap Delays Saturn Development", 1966-08-08, page 60. (# 579) - Alibek, Ken, Biohazard, Hutchinson, London, 1999. More at amazon.com... (# 378) - Alway, Peter, Rockets of the World, Saturn Press, Ann Arbor, 1995. More at amazon.com... Comment: Comprehensive account of world rocketry, from the beginning 'til now, from sounding rockets to Saturns. Oriented toward rocket modellers, with accurate drawings and color guides. (# 332) - Andreeyev, Chepkin, Fanciullo, AIAA Joint Prop. Conf., June 1994, "The Development of the D-57 Advanced Staged Combustion Engine for Upper stages", AIAA-94, AIAA Joint Prop. Conf., June 1994 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 306) - Anisimov, V S; Lacefield, T C; Andrews, J, AIAA Joint Propulsion Conference, "Evolution of the NK-33 and NK-43 reusable LOX/kerosene engines", via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 4471) - Annis, J F, and Webb, P, Development of a Space Activity Suit, NASA CR-1892, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC, November 1971. (# 486) - Arkin, WIlliam M, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, "Unindicted co-conspirators", July/August 1992. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.bullatomsci.org/issues/1992/ja92/ja92.perspectives.html. (# 614) - Armstrong, Neil; Collins, Michael; and Aldrin, Edwin E Jr, First on the Moon, Little Brown, 1970. More at amazon.com... Comment: Astronaut autobiography - the official version, according to the astronaut's Life magazine deal. Basic background information but no insight into the real life of the astronauts. (# 202) - Arthur, George R, Advanced in the Astronautical Sciences, Volume 10, "Lunar Spacecraft Designs", 1963, p. 52. (# 78) - Article on early Baikonur chronology. (# 166) - Asker, James R, Aviation Week and Space Technology, "For Myriad Woes, NASA Calls X-38 to the Rescue", 1996-11-11, page 70. (# 250) - Asker, James R, Aviation Week and Space Technology, "Particle Bed Reactor Central to SDI Nuclear Rocket Project", 1991-04-08, page 18. (# 4483) - Babain, Sergey, True Supersonics! Web Site, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.sergib.agava.ru/. (# 521) - Bailey & Kelly, Astronautics & Aeronautics, "Potential of Recoverable Booster Systems for Orbital Logistics", 1964/January/p.54. (# 516) - Baker, David, Spaceflight and Rocketry -- a Chronology, Facts on File Inc, 1996. More at amazon.com... (# 26) - Baker, David, The History of Manned Spaceflight, Crown, New York, 1981. Comment: The best overview of America's manned space programs up to Skylab. Information and details not available anywhere else. Unfortunately out of print and difficult to locate. (# 253) - Baker, Larry L, Northwest Professional Engineer, "Manned Interplanetary Spacecraft", Summer/Fall 1968. (# 259) - Balcomb, J D, Nuclear Rocket Reference Data Summary, LA-5057-M Los Alamos Informal Report UC-33, October 1972. (# 721) - Baxter, Stephen, Titan, Eos, 1998. More at amazon.com... Comment: A one-way mission to Saturn's moon is launched after life is detected. A modified shuttle, a couple of Apollo command modules, and two refurbished Saturn V gate guardians are called into service. (# 716) - Baxter, Stephen, Voyage, 1996. More at amazon.com... Comment: Might-have-been NASA manned Mars mission. (# 720) - Baxter, Stephen, Voyage, Eos, 1997. More at amazon.com... Comment: An alternative history of space exploration. After Apollo 11, the Americans push ahead with a manned Mars landing program instead of the building the Space Shuttle, landing on the Red Planet in 1986.. (# 4452) - Becker, Joachim, http://www.spacefacts.de/, "Space Facts Web Site", . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.spacefacts.de/. Comment: Joachim Becker's outstanding collection of facts and photos of astronauts and cosmonauts. (# 596) - Belew , Leland F and Stuhlinger, Ernst, SKYLAB: A Guidebook, NASA EP-107.. (# 515) - Bell, AAS, "Advanced Launch Vehicle Systems and Technologies", AAS 1977/vol.36/p.117. (# 4454) - Bell, Jeff, spacedaily.com, "Blackstar - A False Messiah from Groom Lake", . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Blackstar_A_False_Messiah_From_Groom_Lake.html. (# 143) - Bell, M W Jack, Spaceflight, "Advanced Launch Systems and Technology", 1978, Volume 20, page 135. (# 197) - Belyakov, R A and Marmain, J, MiG-Fifty Years of Secret Aircraft Design, Airlife, England, 1994. More at amazon.com... Comment: Comprehensive English account of the products of the MiG design bureau. Mainly covers fighters, but included are detailed descriptions of the MiG-105 spaceplane and earlier rocketplane designs. (# 1993) - Bendersky, C, Manned Lunar Program Options - Mission Equipment - Case 230, Bellcomm memo for file, Sept. 29, 1967. (# 1994) - Bendix Corporation, Lunar Surface Mobility Systems Comparison and Evolution Study (MOBEV), Five volumes, submitted under contract NAS8-20334, November 1966.. (# 63) - Benson, Charles D, Faherty,William Barnaby, Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations SP-4204 1978, NASA. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4204/cover.html. Comment: Official NASA history of the Saturn I, IB, and V launch facilities. (# 457) - Bermudez, Joseph S, Jr, A History of Ballistic Missile Development in the DPRK, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, CNS Occ. Papers #2, 2000.. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/opapers/op2/index.htm. (# 1996) - Bhardwaj, Manoj; Bulsara, Vatsal; Kokan, David; Shariff, Shaun; Svarverud, Eric; and Wirz, Richard, Design of a Pressurized Lunar Rover, NASA-CR-192033, 24 April 1992. (# 725) - Bille, Matt; Lishock, Erika; and Van Allen, James A, The First Space Race: Launching the World's First Satellites, Texas A&M University Press, 2004. More at amazon.com... Comment: The battle to put the first satellite in orbit - between the United States and Soviet Union, and internally within both countries... (# 222) - Bilstein, Roger E, Stages to Saturn, US Government Printing Office, 1980. More at amazon.com... Comment: Excellent account of the evolution, design, and development of the Saturn launch vehicles. (# 1985) - Boeing Aerospace and Electronics, Space Transfer Concepts and Analyses for Exploration Missions, NASA Contract NAS8-37857. (# 277) - Boeing Corporation, Delta III Payload Planner's Guide, Publication number MDC 95H0137A, March 1997.. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/delta/delta3/d3kit.htm. (# 1986) - Boeing Information, Space, and Defense Systems, Low Cost Large Core Vehicle Structures Assessment, Final Report, Contract H-28971D, March 13, 1998. (# 214) - Bono, Philip, Advanced in the Astronautical Sciences, "Design Objectives for Tomorow's Big Boosters", 1963. (# 1984) - Bono, Philip, Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, "A Conceptual Design for a Manned Mars Vehicle", 1960/Vol. 7, p. 25. (# 520) - Bono, Philip, Astronautics & Aeronautics, "ROMBUS concept", 1964/January/p.28. (# 514) - Bono, Senator and Garcia, SAE Conference Proceedings, "Enigma of Booster Recovery - Ballistic or Winged?", 1967/0382/ p.57. (# 518) - Bono, Woodworth & Ursini, IAF XVth International Astronautical Congress Proceedings, "Reusable Booster for Logistics and Planetary Exploration", 1964/p.547. (# 300) - Borisov, A, Novosti kosmonavtiki, "'Buran' - polyot v nikuda?", 1998, Issue 23/24, page 68.. (# 429) - Borisov, A, and Zhuravin, Yu, Novosti kosmonavtiki, "Alternativnaya Luna", No. 9/1999 page 75. (# 494) - Borman, Frank and Serling, Robert J., Countdown : An Autobiography, William Morrow, 1988. More at amazon.com... Comment: Astronaut autobiography. (# 156) - Borrowman, G L, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, "Kosmoljot - Soviet Wings into Space", 1982, Volume 35, page 75. (# 595) - Bradford, Mark, Astro/Space Frequently Seen Acronyms, Newsgroup posting, 19 May 1996 13:45:55 GMT. (# 270) - Bradford, Mark, Frequently Seen Space/Astronomy Acronyms, Edition 13, 1998 Mar 31. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.users.uswest.net/~dinosaur/list.html. (# 126) - Bramscher, Robert G, Spaceflight, "A Survey of Launch Vehicle Failures", 1980, Volume 22, page 351. (# 636) - Brewster and Shiwram , The Simple Universe, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... (# 4468) - Broad, Phil, Last Flight of the Icarus, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.goingfaster.com/icarus/index2.html. (# 4467) - Broad, Phil, Planet of the Apes and its Spaceship, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.cloudster.com/Sets&Vehicles/ApesShip/PofA01.html. (# 27) - Brooks, Courtney G, Grimwood, Hames M, Swenson, Lloyd S, Chariots for Apollo, Government Printing Office, 1989. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4205/cover.html. Comment: The official version - NASA's history of the Apollo program. (# 1990) - Brothers, Bobby; Alpha Technology Inc, Human Mars Mission - Weights And Mass Properties - Final Report, Order Number H-28653D 30 September, 1999. (# 540) - Brower, Kenneth, The Starship and the Canoe, Bantam, 1979. More at amazon.com... Comment: A meditation on the values and lives of Frederick Dyson, weapons scientist, father of the Orion nuclear pulse starship, and his son, who lives in the Pacific Northwest forest and builds canoes. (# 731) - Buedeler, Werner, Geschichte der Raumfahrt, Sigloch, Kuenzelsau, ca 1982.. More at amazon.com... (# 470) - Bull, G V, Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal, "Development of Gun Launched Vertical Probes for Upper Atmosphere Studies", Volume 10, pages 236-247. 1964. (# 618) - Burgess, Colin; Doolan, Kate; Vis, Bert, Fallen Astronauts, Bison Books, 2003. More at amazon.com... Comment: The biographies of the astronauts and cosmonauts who perished while training for or participating in spaceflight. (# 393) - Burrough, Bryan, Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir, Harper Collins, New York, 1998. More at amazon.com... Comment: Gripping look into the heart of the current American and Soviet space programs. Clearly shows that the major hurdle to international space exploration is not technical, but intercultural. (# 28) - Burrows, William E, Deep Black, Random House, New York, 1986. More at amazon.com... Comment: Thorough but now (with release of early Keyhole satellite information) dated accounted of the American spy satellite program. (# 301) - Butowski, Piotr, Air Forces Monthly Special, X-Planes, "Black Reds", February 1998, p. 35. (# 619) - Cabbage, Michael and Harwood, William, Comm Check..., Free Press, 2004. More at amazon.com... Comment: The background to the Columbia disaster. (# 675) - Caidin, Martin, Four Came Back, Baen, 1967. More at amazon.com... Comment: A deadly plague breaks out aboard a space station made from a Saturn V second stage. (# 694) - Caidin, Martin, Killer Station, Baen, 1985. More at amazon.com... Comment: Cold war story of Russian and American struggle for control of an orbiting space station. (# 389) - Caidin, Martin, Marooned, Bantam, New York, 1969. More at amazon.com... Comment: Caidin was the most prolific 'space fiction' writer and this is his best known work. The original 1964 edition involved a Mercury capsule; this was updated to Apollo/Skylab for the movie in 1969. (# 719) - Caidin, Martin, No Man's World, Dutton, 1967. Comment: The Americans and Russians race to the moon, using any possible means to take possession. Impossible to find... (# 718) - Caidin, Martin, The Cape, Doubleday, 1971. Comment: A Saturn V launch sabotaged by a German scientist who is secretly a Communist agent, in deep cover throughout the whole space program. Dreadful - filled with drunken macho over-sexed engineers. (# 432) - Caprara, Giovanni, L'Italia nello Spazio, Valerio Levi Editions, 1992. (# 682) - Caprara, Giovanni, La Conquista di Marti, DeAgostini, 2002. More at amazon.com... Comment: Comprehensive international survey of the discovery of Mars - by earth-based astronomers, robot probes, plans for manned expeditions, and as portrayed by Hollywood. In Italian. (# 490) - Carey,Christopher T, Supporting Life at 80,000 feet: - Evolution of the American High Altitude Pressure Suit, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.lanset.com/aeolusaero/Articles/SSuits.htm. (# 578) - Carpenter, Joel, ufx.org, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.ufx.org/. Comment: Amazing collection of pioneering research on air and space technology related to UFO sightings. (# 605) - Carpenter, Scott with Stoever, Kris, For Spacious Skies, Harcourt, 2003. More at amazon.com... Comment: Astronaut autobiography. (# 420) - Carton, D S, Technology of Lunar Exploration, "LEAP", 1961. (# 366) - Cassutt, Michael and Slayton, Deke, Deke! U.S. Manned Space: from Mercury to the Shuttle, Tom Doherty Associates, New York, 1994. More at amazon.com... Comment: Absolutely the best astronaut biography - full inside details on the personalities of the US astronauts from the one who knew them all - and decided who would go to the moon. (# 691) - Cassutt, Michael, Missing Man, St Croix, 1998. More at amazon.com... Comment: A murder mystery set against the US Shuttle program. Crammed full of insider gossip and stories which makes the reader wonder - to which real-life astronaut does each juicy tidbit actually refer to?. (# 690) - Cassutt, Michael, Red Moon, Forge, 2001. More at amazon.com... Comment: A fictional story set against the background of real events of the Soviet lunar program in the late 1960's. It is a pity that the effort was not put into providing a popular non-fiction account. (# 136) - Cassutt, Michael, Spaceflight, "The Manned Space Flight Engineer Programme", 1989, Volume 31, page 26. (# 382) - Cassutt, Michael, Who's Who in Space, Macmillan, New York, 1993. More at amazon.com... Comment: Marvelous book with complete biographies of all flown and unflown cosmonauts and astronauts. What they did before and after their tours of duty, explanation of selection groups, much more.. (# 603) - Cernan, Gene with Davis, Donald A, The Last Man on the Moon : Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space, St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. More at amazon.com... Comment: Astronaut autobiography. (# 29) - Chacko, George K, ed., Reducing the Cost of Space Transportation, AAS Science and Technology Series, Vol. 21, 1969. More at amazon.com... Comment: A good collection of articles just prior to the shuttle competition on competing methods of reaching orbit cheaply. (# 30) - Chaikin, Andrew, A Man on the Moon, Viking, New York, 1994. More at amazon.com... Comment: Highly touted but perhaps overrated survey of the Apollo missions. (# 31) - Chang, Iris, Thread of the Silkworm, Basic Books, New York, 1995. More at amazon.com... Comment: The story of how America, in the grip of McCarthyism, expelled the Father of Chinese Rocketry from CalTech to his homeland. A relatively small event with great consquences. (# 409) - Chemiy, I, Novosti kosmonavtiki, "'Rokot' - nekotrie deali", Issue 3, 1999, p. 53.. (# 424) - Chen Lan, Dragon in Space, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/1921/. Comment: The best source anywhere for information on current news regarding the Chinese space program. (# 534) - Chen Shilu, Yan Hui, Cai Yuanli, and Zhu Xiaoping, Acta Astronautica, "Progress and Development of Space Technology in China", Vol 46, No 9, p. 559, 2000. Paper IAA-96-IAA.2.2.05 presented at the 47th IA Congress, Beijing, 1996. (# 170) - Chernyshov, M, Science in the USSR,, "A Secret Launchpad is Open", 1990, No. 4, p. 34. (# 367) - Chertok, Boris Yevseyevich, Raketi i lyudi, Mashinostroenie, Moscow, 1994-1999.. More at amazon.com... HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20050010181_2005010059.pdf. Comment: Russian language autobiography in four volumes of one of Korolev's chief assistants. NASA is in the process of translating the work - the pdf is for the first volume only, up to WW2. (# 181) - Chugunova, Nina, Ogonyok, "Kosmonavti Chelomeya", January 1993, No. 4-5, page 24. (# 585) - Chun, Clayton K S, Quest, "A Falling Star: SAINT, America's First Antisatellite System", Summer 1998, Volume 6, Number 2, page 44. (# 246) - Clark, John D, Ignition!, Rutgers University Press, 1972. More at amazon.com... Comment: Outstanding first hand account of the development of liquid fuel rocket engines in the United States. (# 155) - Clark, P S, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, "Soviet Launch Vehicles: An Overview", 1982, Volume 35, page 51. (# 151) - Clark, P S, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, "Soviet Spacecraft Masses for Deep Space Missions", 1985, Volume 38, page 25. (# 150) - Clark, P S, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, "Soviet Spacecraft Masses for Earth Orbital Programmes", 1985, Volume 38, page 19. (# 32) - Clark, Philip, The Soviet Manned Space Program, Salamander Books, London, 1988. More at amazon.com... Comment: By far the best account of the Soviet manned program, though now out of date due to the flood of revelations since Glasnost and the end of the cold war. (# 286) - Clark, Phillip, Launchspace.com, Oct/Nov 1998., "China's 'Project 921' - Men in Space", Internet Version. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.launchspace.com/mag/0305/project921.html. (# 254) - Clement, J D and Williams, J R, American Nuclear Society - Critical Reviews, Reactor Technology, "Gas-Core Reactor Technology", Vol 13, No 3, Summer 1970, p 226. (# 267) - Cohan, Christopher J, Space Transportation Systems, 1980-2000, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, New York, 1978. (# 392) - Collins, Michael, Carrying the Fire, Ballantine Books, New York, 1975. More at amazon.com... Comment: The best personal account by an astronaut of his life and spaceflights. (# 133) - Compton, W. David, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, "The Rocket as Spacecraft: Spent Stages in Manned Space Flight", 1985, Volume 38, page 147. (# 602) - Cooper, Gordon with Henderson, Bruce, Leap of Faith, Harper Toch, 2002. More at amazon.com... Comment: Astronaut autobiography. (# 390) - Cooper, Henry S F, Moonwreck, Granada, London, 1975. More at amazon.com... Comment: Long before Apollo 13 this excellent account of the flight was available. Original title 13: The Flight That Failed. (# 245) - Covault, Craig, Aviation Week and Space Technology, "US to Bolster Its Capability In Small Launch Vehicles", 1987-12-07, page 73. (# 423) - Crawford, J E, AIAA Volume 16, "Single and Multicrew Inflatable Re-entry Vehicles", AIAA Vol 16 Part 1 Page 635. (# 469) - Creveld, Martin van, Nuclear Proliferation and the Future of Conflict, The Free Press, New York, 1993. (# 4473) - Crossfield, Scott with Blair, Clay Jr, Always Another Dawn: The Story of a Rocket Test, New York: Arno Press, reprinted 1971. Comment: Autobiography. (# 611) - Cunningham, Walter, The All-American Boys, I Books, 2003. More at amazon.com... Comment: Astronaut autobiography. (# 4463) - Danchik, Robert J, John Hopkins APL Technical Digest, "An Overview of Transit Development", Volume 19, Number 1, 1998. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/td1901/danchik.pdf. (# 351) - Data sheets NPO Trud via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 400) - Day, Dwayne A (Editor), et. al., Eye in the Sky : The Story of the Corona Spy Satellites, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. More at amazon.com... (# 280) - Day, Dwayne Allen, sci.space.history Newsgroup, "re: Brief overview of SOLRAD/GREB project", posting, 1998-06-23. (# 4455) - Day, Dwayne Allen, thespacereview.com, "Six blind men in a zoo: Aviation Week’s mythical Blackstar", . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://thespacereview.com/article/576/1. (# 171) - Day, Dwayne, Spaceflight, "Response to Letter to the Editor", 1995, Volume 37, page 282. (# 711) - Deacon, Richard, The Chinese Secret Service, Ballantine, 1976. More at amazon.com... Comment: A comprehensive history of its topic, but also the first book to reveal substantial new details on the recruitment and defection of Chinese rocket scientist Chien Hsue Shen. (# 724) - Dickson, Gordon, Far Call, Ace, 1992. More at amazon.com... Comment: An expedition to Mars using the Boeing spacecraft designed in 1969. (# 511) - Dore, AAS, "Aircraft Design and Development Experience Related to Reusable Launch Vehicles", AAS Science & Technology 1969/vol.21/p. 43. (# 480) - Dorman, Bernie, et. al., Aerojet: The Creative Company, Stuart F Cooper Company, Los Angeles, 1995.. More at amazon.com... Comment: Out of print unauthorised history of Aerojet, as told by ex-employees. More such works are urgently needed to preserve the (non-governmental) history of the space race. (# 693) - Dornberger, Walter, Peenemuende, Moewig, Berlin 1985.. More at amazon.com... Comment: German-language account of the development of the V-2 by the Commander of the Peenemuende rocket development centre. (# 593) - Dornheim, Michael A, Aviation Week and Space Technology, "Affordable Spaceship / Burt Rutan's Quest for Space", Aviation Week and Space Technology, April 21, 2003.. (# 251) - Dornheim, Michael R, Aviation Week and Space Technology, "Mitsubishi Planning to Test Liquid Air Cycle Rocket Engine", 1992-05-11, page 54. (# 1987) - Drake, Bret U, Editor, Reference Mission Version 3.0 - Addendum to the Human Exploration of Mars: The Reference Mission of the NASA Mars Exploration Study Team, NASA Special Publication 6107-ADD EX13-98-036 June 1998. (# 717) - Drury, Allen, The Throne of Saturn, 1968. More at amazon.com... Comment: A novel about the politics of space and NASA just after the lunar landing. Concentrates on the national politics surrounding a multi-crew Mars expedition. (# 609) - Duke, Charlie, Moonwalker, Thomas Nelson, 1990. More at amazon.com... Comment: Astronaut autobiography. (# 699) - Dyson, George, Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship, Henry Holt, 2002.. More at amazon.com... Comment: Enormously fun account of the design by America's leading atomic scientists in the 1950's of a nuclear-pulse spaceship that, in lieu of Apollo, might have put American colonies on Mars by 1970. (# 18) - Emme, Eugene M, Aeronautical and Astronautical Events of 1961 Report of NASA to the Committee on Science and Astronautics US House of Representatives 87th Cong 2d Sess, NASA, 1962. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/timeline.html. (# 17) - Emme, Eugene M, Aeronautics and Astronautics: An American Chronology of Science and Technology in the Exploration of Space 1915-1960, NASA, 1961. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/timeline.html. (# 16) - Ertel , Ivan D; Morse , Mary Louise; et al, The Apollo Spacecraft Chronology Vol I - IV NASA SP-4009, NASA, 1966-1974. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4009/cover.htm. (# 204) - Evans, Thomas C, Advanced in the Astronautical Sciences, Vol 18, "Extended Lunar Exploration", 1964, p 480. (# 212) - Evgrafov, V N, et. al., Katalog - Raketnaya i Kosmicheskaya Tekhnika, Kaluga, 1992. Comment: Tsiolokovskiy Museum catalog. (# 471) - Eyre, F W, Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal, "The Development of Large Bore Gun Launched Rockets", Volume 12, pages 143-149, 1966. (# 590) - Ezell , Edward Clinton and Ezell, Linda Neuman, On Mars: Exploration of the Red Planet 1958-1978, NASA SP-4212, 1984. More at amazon.com... (# 452) - Ezell, Edward Clinton and Ezell, Linda Neuman, The Partnership: A History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, NASA History Series SP-4209, 1978. Comment: NASA official history of the first international manned space project. (# 507) - Faget & Silveira, Proceedings of the XXIst International Astronautical Congress, "Fundamental Design Considerations for an Earth-Surface-to-Orbit Shuttle", Constance, 5 October, 1970/p.380. (# 506) - Faget, Astronautics & Aeronautics, "Space Shuttle:a New Configuration", 1970/January/p.52. (# 386) - Fallaci, Oriana, If the Sun Dies, Kingsport Press, New York, 1966. More at amazon.com... Comment: Impressionistic ramble through the American space program at the peak of its promise. Pre-Right Stuff, the only portrait of astronauts as human beings. Inspirational and irritating. (# 333) - Fanciullo, Lacefield, AIAA Joint Prop. Conf., June 1994, "High Performance Russian D-57 LH2/LOX Rocket Engine", AIAA-94-3398 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 4451) - Ferra, Lionel, Mars Society Deutschland Web Site, "A European Launcher for Manned Mars Missions", . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.marssociety.de/html/index.php?module=Static_Docs&type=user&func=view&f=Marsinfos/Bemannt/european.html&menuID=M4130000000000000000. (# 184) - Filin, V M, Vosplominaniya o lunnom korable, Izdatelstvo 'Kultura', 1992. Comment: Russian-language account of the design and development of the LK lunar lander. (# 4487) - Fisher, Richard Jr, International Assessment and Strategy Center Home Page, "Shenlong Space Plane Advances China’s Military Space Potential", . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.174/pub_detail.asp. (# 527) - Fontcuberta, Joan, Ivan Istochnikov Web Site, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.telefonica.es/fat/esputnik.html. (# 461) - Ford, Brian, German Secret Weapons: Blueprint for Mars, Ballantine, New York, 1969. More at amazon.com... (# 4479) - Forden, Geoffrey, Science and Global Security, "The Military Capabilities and Implications of China’s Indigenous Satellite-Based Navigation System", 12:219–250, 2004. (# 14) - Fredriksson, Urban, Missile Non-Comparision Tables, 1997. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.kuai.se/%7Egriffon/aviation/text/robodata.htm#aam. (# 1983) - Freeman, Paul, Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_PalmdaleN.htm. (# 129) - Frieling, Thomas J, Quest, "Skylab B: Unflown Missions, Lost Opportunities", 1996, Volume 5, Issue 4, page 12. (# 450) - Frolov, I, Kosmodrom, "Kratkiy istoricheskiy obzor sovietskikh (rossiyskikh) voennikh sredstv", No. 8, 1999, p. 21.. (# 33) - Furniss, Tim, Manned Spaceflight Log, Jane's, London, 1986. More at amazon.com... Comment: Summary of all manned spaceflights up to 1986. Pre-Glasnost, so many 'war stories' of Soviet manned spaceflight are not included. (# 1997) - Gaidos, G; Lewis, R A; Smith, G A; Dundore, B ; Chakrabarti, S, Antiproton-Catalyzed Microfission/Fusion Propulsion Systems for Exploration of the Outer Solar System and Beyond, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.engr.psu.edu/antimatter/Papers/ICAN.pdf. (# 637) - Gainor, Chris, Arrows To The Moon, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: Account of the crucial role Canadian engineers - refugees from the cancelled CF-105 Canadian fighter program - played in the American Gemini and Apollo programs. (# 36) - Gatland, Kenneth and Bono, Philip, Frontiers of Space, Macmillan, New York, 1969. More at amazon.com... Comment: Largely taken over to a discussion of Bono's plug-nozzle, single stage to orbit designs and their advantages over winged shuttle designs. (# 146) - Gatland, Kenneth W, Spaceflight, "A Soviet Space Shuttle?", 1978, Volume 20, page 322. (# 22) - Gatland, Kenneth, Manned Spacecraft, Macmillan, New York, 1968. More at amazon.com... Comment: First of a marvelous series of pocket-size hardbacks covering spacecraft and rocketry. (# 34) - Gatland, Kenneth, Missiles and Rockets, Macmillan, New York, 1975. More at amazon.com... Comment: Covers rocketry of all nations. (# 35) - Gatland, Kenneth, Robot Explorers, Macmillan, New York, 1972. More at amazon.com... Comment: Good account of unmanned lunar and planetary spacecraft. (# 249) - Gatland, Kenneth, Spacecraft and Boosters, Iliffe Books. London, 1964. Comment: Survey of world launch vehicles. (# 384) - Gatland, Kenneth, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Space Technology, Salamander, New York, 1981. More at amazon.com... Comment: Large format overview of rocketry, spacecraft, and space history up to the end of the 1970's. (# 88) - Geiger, Jeffrey, Vandenberg AFB Chronology, 30 Space Wing Web, August 1995. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://mercury.vafb.af.mil/history/. (# 4485) - Gerard, James H, A Field Guide to American Spacecraft, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://aesp.nasa.okstate.edu/fieldguide/pages/aaindex/home1.html. (# 533) - Gertz, Bill, Washington Times, "Chinese 'civilian' satellite a spy tool", August 1, 2001. (# 221) - Gibson, James N, The Navaho Missile Project, Schiffer, 1996. More at amazon.com... Comment: The only book available on the fabulous Navaho project. Written by the son of one of the project workers, not nearly detailed enough, but it's all we've got.... (# 349) - GKB Yuzhnoe "Yangel", Data sheets Paris Airshow 1997 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 493) - Glenn, John and Taylor, Nick, John Glenn : A Memoir, Bantam Doubleday, 1999. More at amazon.com... (# 321) - Glushko, V P (ed), Kosmonavtika Entsiklopedi, Moscow 1985 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 320) - Glushko, V P, Albom Konstruktsiy ZhRD, Vol. 1 1968, Vol. 3 & 4 1969 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 322) - Glushko, V P, Razvitie Raketostroeniya, Moscow 1987 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 482) - Goddard, Robert H, Collected Papers of Robert H Goddard, . (# 638) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Apollo 10 - The NASA Mission Reports, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the mission. (# 639) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Apollo 11 Volume 1 - The NASA Mission Reports, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the mission. (# 640) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Apollo 11 Volume 2 - The NASA Mission Reports, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the mission. (# 641) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Apollo 11 Volume 3 - The NASA Mission Reports, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the mission. (# 642) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Apollo 12 - The NASA Mission Reports, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the mission. (# 643) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Apollo 13 - The NASA Mission Reports, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the mission. (# 644) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Apollo 14 - The NASA Mission Reports, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the mission. (# 645) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Apollo 15 - The NASA Mission Reports Volume 1, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the mission. (# 646) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Apollo 16 Volume 1 - The NASA Mission Reports, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the mission. (# 647) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Apollo 17 Volume 1 - The NASA Mission Reports, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the mission. (# 648) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Apollo 7 - The NASA Mission Reports, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the mission. (# 649) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Apollo 8 - The NASA Mission Reports, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the mission. (# 650) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Apollo 9 - The NASA Mission Reports, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the mission. (# 651) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Columbia Accident Investigation Report + Supplemental Materials , Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the Columbia tragedy. (# 583) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Dyna-Soar: Hypersonic Strategic Weapons System, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: Collection of contemporary documents covering the development and death of Dyna-Soar, as well as a DVD with video of promotional films and systems tests. (# 652) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Freedom 7 - The NASA Mission Reports, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the mission. (# 653) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Friendship 7 - The NASA Mission Reports, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the mission. (# 654) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Gemini 12 - The NASA Mission Reports , Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the mission. (# 655) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Gemini 6 - The NASA Mission Reports, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the mission. (# 656) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Gemini 7 - The NASA Mission Reports, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the mission. (# 658) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Mars - The NASA Mission Reports Volume 2, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the robot missions to Mars. (# 657) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Mars - The NASA Mission Reports, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the robot missions to Mars. (# 659) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Sigma 7 The NASA Mission Reports , Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the mission. (# 660) - Godwin, Robert, editor, Space Shuttle STS 1-5 - The NASA Mission Reports, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the mission. (# 661) - Godwin, Robert, editor, X-15 - The NASA Mission Reports, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: A collection of key original documents on the X-15 flights. (# 472) - Goebel, Greg, Space Guns, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/6000/v1998_05.html#m2. (# 449) - Golotyuk, S, Novosti kosmonavtiki, "Sputnikostroiteli s beregov Yeniseya", No. 10, 1999, p. 64. (# 375) - Golovanov, Yarsolav, Korolev - fakti i mifi, Nauka, Moscow, 1994. Comment: Groundbreaking Russian language biography of the Soviet Chief Designer. (# 37) - Golovine, Michael N, Conflict in Space, Temple Press, London, 1962. Comment: Comprehensive account of the 'blue sky' studies on military use of space, done at the dawn of the space age and twenty years before the Strategic Defence Initiative. (# 309) - Golubev, A A, KB KhimAvtomatiki - Straniy Istorii, Vol. 1, Voronezh 1995 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 310) - Gontcharov, Orlov, Rachuk, Rudis, Shostak, McIllwain, Starke, Hulka, ONERA, "Tripropellant Liquid Rocket Engine Technology Using a Fuel-Rich Closed Power Cycle", June 1995 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 385) - Gorodnichev, Yu P, et. al., 80 let GKNPTs imemi M V Khrunicheva, GKNPTs i Khrunicheva, 1995. More at amazon.com... Comment: 80th Anniversary tribute, in words and pictures, of the Khrunichev factory - which began with automobiles, moved on to aircraft, then missiles, space boosters, and manned space stations. (# 463) - Gourley, Scott R, Popular Mechanics, "The Jules Verne Gun", 1996 December. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://popularmechanics.com/popmech/sci/9612STRSCM.html. (# 110) - Grahn, Sven, Sven Grahn's Space History Pages, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/. Comment: Sven Grahn's occasional essays on specific topics of the Russian and Chinese space programs are outstanding. (# 4472) - Gray, Mike, Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon, Penguin Reprint edition, 1994. More at amazon.com... Comment: Excellent and lively account of Harrison Storms and the North American engineering team that made the Apollo moon landing happen. (# 623) - Gray, Mike, Angle of Attack, Penguin, 1994. More at amazon.com... Comment: Biography of Harrison Storms, 'Chief Designer' of the X-15 and Apollo spacecraft. (# 1989) - Griffin, Brand; Thomas, Brent; Vaughan, Diane, A Comparison of Transportation Systems for Human Missions to Mars, AIAA 2004-3834, 40th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit ,11-14 July 2004. (# 483) - Grimwood, James M., Project Mercury: A Chronology, NASA Special Publication-4001. (# 612) - Grissom, Betty, Starfall, Crowell, 1974. More at amazon.com... Comment: Astronaut biography. (# 224) - Grondine, Ed, "Personal communication", . (# 425) - Grondine, Ed, Encyclopedia Astronautica, "Chinese Manned Space Program: Behind Closed Doors", . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.astronautix.com/articles/chidoors.htm. (# 257) - Gronich, S, Nuclear News, "Nuclear Rocket Applications in the Post-Apollo Era", October 1970, p 39. (# 396) - Groves, Gerald V, Editor, Spaceflight, . Comment: The only English-language monthly magazine on the past, present, and future of space exploration and space technology. Subscriptons: BIS. (# 324) - Gubanov, B I, AIAA-91-2510, AIAA-Joint, "USSR Main Engines For Heavy-Lift Launch Vehicles: Status and Direction", Sacramento June 1991 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 531) - Gubanov, B I, Triumf i tragediya energiy, Editions NIER, Nizhniy Novgorod, 1998.. (# 38) - Guenther, Ben, Miller, Jay, and Panopalis, Terry,, North American X-15/X-15A-2, Aerofax, Arlington, Texas, 1985. More at amazon.com... Comment: Comprehensive and technically excellent account of the X-15 program. (# 303) - Gunston, Bill, The Osprey Encylopedia of Russian Aircraft 1975-1995, Osprey, London, 1995. More at amazon.com... Comment: The greatest single reference on Soviet winged aircraft. (# 39) - Gunston, Bill,, Rockets and Missiles, Salamander, London, 1979. More at amazon.com... Comment: Gunston, the most prolific aviation writer of all time, also produced this, the best Encyclopaedic account of military missiles ever produced. Sadly, never updated. (# 40) - Hacker, Barton C and Crimwood, James,, On the Shoulders of Titans, Government Printing Office, 1977. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4203/cover.htm. Comment: The official version - NASA's history of the Gemini program. (# 293) - Haeseler, Dietrich, "Personal communication", 1998 December.. (# 120) - Haeseler, Dietrich, Spaceflight, "Original Almaz Space Station", 1994, Volume 35, page 342. (# 135) - Haeseler, Dietrich, Spaceflight, "Salyut 1: First In-Orbit Photo of Space Station", 1997, Volume 39, page 211. (# 74) - Haeseler, Dietrich, Spaceflight, "Soviet Rocket Motors on View", 1993, Volume 35, page 40. (# 312) - Haeseler, Dietrich, CADB-information leaflets, International Aerospace Show Berlin 1998 (ILA 98) via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 334) - Haeseler, Dietrich, Catalogue and datasheets at Moscow Aerospace Exhibition, Moscow-Shukovski, 1995 via Dietrich Haesele. (# 336) - Haeseler, Dietrich, Datasheets from NII Mashinostroeniye, Nishnaya Salda, 1992 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 337) - Haeseler, Dietrich, Information from NII Mashinostroeniye in internet: www.conveyor.com/space_russia/niimash/ltre.htm (M. (# 315) - Haeseler, Dietrich, Information from NPO Energia museum exhibit, Nov. 1992 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 317) - Haeseler, Dietrich, Information from NPO Energomash museum exhibit, Nov. 1992 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 308) - Haeseler, Dietrich, Information material from Chemical Automatics Design Bureau, Voronezh 1993 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 318) - Haeseler, Dietrich, NPO Energomash exhibit at Moscow Airshow MAKS 93, Moscow, 1993 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 331) - Haeseler, Dietrich, Presentation of demonstrator via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 307) - Haeseler, Dietrich, Visit to the museum of Chemical Automatics Design Bureau, Voronezh 1992 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 314) - Haeseler, Dietrich, Visit to the museum of Chemical Machining Design Bureau, Kalinin 1994 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 350) - Haeseler, Dietrich, Visit to the museum of Chemical Machining Design Bureau, Kalinin 1998 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 205) - Hall, Edwin H, "Memorandum to Deputy Director, Gemini Program, "Circumlunar Missions"", June 29, 1965. Comment: Thanks to Scott Lowther for discovering and providing the memorandum. (# 627) - Hall, Rex and Shayler, David J, Soyuz, Telos, 2003. More at amazon.com... Comment: A review in English of the development and flights of the Soyuz spacecraft. (# 628) - Hall, Rex and Shayler, David J, The Rocket Men, Springer-Verlag, 2001. More at amazon.com... Comment: An account of the Vostok and Voskhod programs. (# 712) - Hall, Rex, Editor, The History of Mir 1986-2000, British Interplanetary Society, 2000. More at amazon.com... Comment: An collection of articles on the Mir station. The articles by Bart Hendrickx on Mir development and Andy Salmon on its flight experiments are particularly noteworthy. (# 4459) - Hansen, James R, First Man - The Life of Neil Armstrong, Simon and Schuster, London, 2005. More at amazon.com... Comment: The official biography of Neil Armstrong. Voluminous, no new insights, unreadable. Too bad. (# 713) - Hardy, David A, Visions of Space, Paper Tiger, 1989. More at amazon.com... Comment: Large format book of art by the foremost space artists, illustrating, past and present, plans for human exploration of space and the wonder of other worlds. (# 369) - Harford, James, Korolev - How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1997.. More at amazon.com... Comment: The first and the best English-language book on the Soviet space program published since the fall of the Soviet Union and the opening of the archives. (# 722) - Harrison, Payne, Storming Intrepid, Random House, 1991. More at amazon.com... Comment: A Soviet spy hijacks the space shuttle as it attempts to deploy a space based defence system.. (# 381) - Hart, Douglas, The Encyclopedia of Soviet Spacecraft, Bison Books, London, 1987. More at amazon.com... Comment: Another 1980's Bison picture-book. Fair text but pre-Glasnost information. Nice photos but some of the captions are way off and even unintentionally hilarious. (# 398) - Harvey, Brian, China's Space Program, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1998. More at amazon.com... Comment: Most comprehensive overview of the Chinese space program. (# 629) - Harvey, Brian, Russia in Space, Springer-Praxis, 2001. More at amazon.com... Comment: Account of the ascent and decline of the Russian space program. (# 85) - Harvey, Brian, Spaceflight, "Some Details on Project Zenith (1957 Onwards)", 1993, Volume 35, page 382. (# 387) - Hay, Jacob and Keshishian, John, Autopsy for a Cosmonaut, Popular Library, New York, 1969. Comment: Odd but technically accurate fictional account of a pathologist trained for a Gemini flight and EVA - to conduct in-flight autopsies of Soviet cosmonauts that have perished in a marooned Voskhod!. (# 707) - Heinemann, Edward H, and Rausa, Rosario, Ed Heinemann: Combat Aircraft Designer, Naval Institute Press, 1980. More at amazon.com... Comment: Autobiography of one of the great aircraft designers of all time, including accounts of the D-558 rocketplane series. (# 421) - Heitchure, R D, AIAA Volume 16, "Emergency Escape from a Space Station", AIAA Vol 16 Part 1 Page 680. (# 149) - Hempsell, C M and Hannigan, R J, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, "Multi-Role Capsule System Description", 1989, Volume 42, page 67. (# 255) - Henderson, Breck W, Aviation Week and Space Technology, "World's Largest Light Gas Gun Nears Completion at Livermore", 1992-08-10, page 57. (# 200) - Henderson, C William, Advanced in the Astronautical Sciences, Vol 18, "Extended Lunar Exploration", 1964, p 615. (# 453) - Hendrickx, Bart, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, "The Origins and Evolution of Mir and Its Modules", Vol. 51, P. 203-222, 1998.. (# 131) - Hendrickx, Bart, Spaceflight, "Korolev: Facts and Myths", 1996, Volume 38, page 44. (# 125) - Hendrickx, Bart, Spaceflight, "Soviet Lunar Dream that Faded", 1995, Volume 37, page 135. (# 361) - Henize, Vance K., "Astronaut Karl G. Henize - A personal History", . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://spacsun.rice.edu/~henize/karlhenize.html. (# 524) - Heppenheimer, T A, The Space Shuttle Decision, NASA History Office, NASA SP-4221, 1999. (# 41) - Hesse, Walter J and Mumford, Nicholas VS Jr;, Jet Propulsion for Aerospace Applications - Second Edition, Pitman Publishing, New York, 1964. Comment: This textbook, produced in the mid-1960's, remains the best introduction to jet propulsion for air and spacecraft. (# 1991) - Hinners, N W, James, D B, and Schmidt, F N, A Lunar Exploration Program, Bellcomm Technical Memorandum TM-68-1012-1, 5 January 1968.. (# 216) - Hobbs, Marvin, Fundamentals of Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft, John F Rider, 1961.. (# 1988) - Hoffman, Stephen J, and Kaplan, David I, Editors, Human Exploration of Mars: The Reference Mission of the NASA Mars Exploration Study Team, NASA Special Publication 6107 July 1997. (# 368) - Hooper, Gordon R, The Soviet Cosmonaut Team, GRH Publications, Woodbridge, UK, 1986. More at amazon.com... Comment: Comprehensive pre-Glasnost biographies of Soviet cosmonauts known up to that time. (# 229) - Hostetter, Dave, "Personal communication", Drawings of final Saturn configuration from archives, Alabama Space and Rocket Center.. (# 152) - Houchin II, Roy and Smith, Terry, Quest, "X-20 (7 articles)", 1994, Volume 3, Issue 4, page 4. (# 544) - Huang Jianding and Ye Dingyou, Acta Astronautica, "The Development of Space Solid Rocket Motors in China", Vol 40, No. 2-8, pp. 607-612, 1997.. More at amazon.com... (# 702) - Huchthausen, Peter, Kurdin, Igor, and White, R Alan, Hostile Waters, St Martin's Press, 1997. More at amazon.com... Comment: The true story of the loss of Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-219 in 1986. A tremendous story of courage, and of conditions aboard a nuclear submarine with missiles leaking corrosive fuel... (# 565) - Hudson, Gary C, History of the Phoenix VTOL SSTO and Recent Developments in Single-Stage Launch Systems, AAS 91-643, included in Proceedings of 5th ISCOPS, AAS Vol. 77, pp 329-351, November 1991. (# 625) - Husband, Evelyn with Vanliere, Donna, High Calling, Nelson Books, 2004. More at amazon.com... Comment: Biography of astronaut Rick Husband, who perished in the Columbia disaster, with emphasis on his spiritual life. (# 662) - Irvine, Mat, Creating Space The Space Age Through the Models, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... (# 613) - Irwin, James B, To Rule the Night, A. J. Holman, 1973. More at amazon.com... Comment: Astronaut autobiography. (# 455) - Isakowitz, Steven J, Hopkins, Joshua B, and Hopkins, Joseph P, International Reference to Space Launch Systems, AIAA, Washington DC, 2004. More at amazon.com... Comment: The best reference on launch vehicles ever produced. (# 42) - Isakowitz, Steven J,, International Reference to Space Launch Systems Second Edition, AIAA, Washington DC, 1991 (succeeded by 2000 edition). More at amazon.com... Comment: Superseded by the later editions. (# 414) - Ivanenko, V N, Issled. Po Ist. I Teorii Razv. Aviat. i Raketo-Kosm. Nauki i Tekhniki, "O Zhizn i Deyatelnosti S.A. Kosberg", AN SSSR, Moscow 1986. (# 43) - James, Peter N, Soviet Conquest from Space, Arlington House, New Rochelle, New York, 1974. More at amazon.com... Comment: Idiosyncratic account by a disgruntled agent of US Air Force intelligence, spilled the beans years ahead of time on what was going on in Soviet space developments. (# 686) - James, Peter N, The Air Force Mafia, Arlington House, New Rochelle, New York, 1975. More at amazon.com... Comment: Account of James' fight with USAF Foreign Technology Division - how intelligence on Soviet rocketry was both spun and provided to favoured contractors. A whisteblower's courageous scream, to no effect. (# 505) - Jean & Scott, AAS, "Characteristics of the Space Shuttle", AAS 1970/vol.28/p.141. (# 44) - Jenkins, Dennis R,, Space Shuttle: The History of the National Space Transportation System : The First 100 Missions, Third edition, Voyageur Press, 2001. More at amazon.com... Comment: Excellent - the most comprehensive account of the design, development, and flights of the space shuttle.Takes the reader from the maze of designs during the first shuttle competition to future plans. (# 633) - Johnson, Clarence L with Smith, Maggie, Kelly: More Than My Share of It All, Smithsonian Books, 1990. More at amazon.com... Comment: Autobiography of the Lockheed Skunk Works 'Chief Designer'. (# 23) - Johnson, Nicholas L, The Soviet Reach for the Moon, Cosmos Books, Washington, DC, 1994. More at amazon.com... Comment: The best English account of the Soviet lunar program. Unfortunately out of print and unavailable. (# 119) - Johnson, Nicholas L; and Rodvold, David M, Europe and Asia in Space 1993-1994, USAF Phillips Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM 80907, 1995.. Comment: Comprehensive survey of Russian, Chinese, and European launchers and spacecraft. (# 526) - Judica-Cordiglia brothers, Lost Cosmonauts Web Site, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.lostcosmonauts.com/. (# 67) - Kaesmann, Ferdinand, et. al., Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, "Proton - Development of A Russian Launch Vehicle", 1998, Volume 51, page 3. (# 376) - Kamanin, N P, Skritiy kosmos, Infortext, Moscow, 1995. Comment: The diary of the Commander of the Soviet Cosmonaut Team in the 1960's - a source of great insights into the space program. Four volumes issued to date. (# 419) - Kane, Francis X, IAA, "A Thirty Year Perspective on Manned Space Safety and Rescue: Where We've Been; Where We Are; Where We Are Going", IAA 84-270, 1984. (# 379) - Kaplan, Joseph; Von Braun, Wernher; et. al., Across the Space Frontier, Viking Press, New York, 1952. Comment: Von Braun's plans for a reusable space shuttle, an earth orbit space station, and a manned lunar orbiter are presented to the American public for the first time, made real by Bonestells' paintings. (# 499) - Karash, Yuri Yureyevich, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, "Rossiskaya orbitalnaya stantsiya gotova startovat k Marsu.", 20 December 2000. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://science.ng.ru/policy/2000-12-20/1_mars.html. (# 537) - Karpenko, A V, 50 let KB 'Arsenal' imeni M V Frunze, Nevski Bastion, 1.99, 1999.. Comment: History of the artillery, missiles, and spacecraft developed by the oldest design bureau in Russia - KB Arsenal, which can trace its history back to its founding by Peter the Great in 1711. (# 705) - Karpenko, A V, and Ganin, S M, Otechestvenniye aviatsionniye takticheskiye rakety, Sankt-Peterburg: Nevskii bastion; Gangut 2000.. Comment: Well-illustrated encyclopedia of Russian tactical air-to-ground missiles. (# 476) - Karpenko, A V, Utkin, A F and Popov,A D, Otechestvenniye strategischeskiye raketnoye kompleks, Sankt-Peterburg: Nevskii bastion; Gangut 1999.. Comment: Well-illustrated encyclopedia of the missiles of the Russian strategic missile forces. (# 402) - Katorgin, B; Klepikov, I, Aviapanorama, "Metanovye ZhRD NPO Energomash im. V.P. Glushko", 7-8/98, Moscow, 1998. (# 2000) - Kayser, Lutz, Personal communication, 2005., . (# 4481) - Kehlet, Alan B et al, US Patent 3,090,580 - Lenticular Space Vehicle, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.astronautix.com/data/p3090580.pdf. (# 365) - Kelley, Kevin W, The Home Planet, Queen Anne Press, London, 1988. More at amazon.com... Comment: Large format book of photographs of earth from space, with commentary by astronauts and cosmonauts. (# 615) - Kelly, Thomas J, Moon Lander, Smithsonian Books, 2001. More at amazon.com... Comment: Good account of the development of the Grumman lunar module from the point of view of the 'Chief Designer'. (# 539) - Khrushchev, Sergei, Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower, Pennsylvania State University, 2000. More at amazon.com... Comment: The English-language version of the memoirs of Khrushchev's son. A unique view of decision making in regard to the space and rocketry programmes at the highest level. (# 163) - Kidger, Neville, Spaceflight, "Almaz - A Diamond Out of Darkness", 1994, Volume 36, page 86. (# 167) - Kidger, Neville, Spaceflight, "Early Soyuz History Recalled", 1992, Volume 34, page 291. (# 130) - Kidger, Neville, Spaceflight, "The Soviet Shuttle (Letter)", 1983, Volume 25, page 251. Comment: Details on Albatros. (# 220) - Kiselev, Anatoly I, introduction, Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, 1996. Comment: Colour brochure, in English and Russian, on the history and current products of the Russian space station manufacturer. (# 325) - Klepikov, Katorgin, Chvanov, IAF-Congress Turin, 1997, "The New Generation of Rocket Engines, Operating by Ecologically Safe Propellant ...", IAF-97-S.1.03 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 626) - Klerkx, Greg, Lost in Space, Pantheon, 2004. More at amazon.com... Comment: Presentation of the case against NASA - how it has hindered, rather than helped, space exploration since Apollo. (# 689) - Kluger, Jeffrey, Moon Hunters, Touchstone, 2001. More at amazon.com... Comment: An account of the human side of 40 years of Jet Propulsion Laboratory robot probes to the planets - unfortunately marred by numerous technical errors. (# 341) - Kobelyev, V N; Milovanov, A G, Rakety Nositeli, Moscow State Aviation Techology University, 1993 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 45) - Koelle, Heinz Hermann,, Handbook of Astronautical Engineering, McGraw-Hill,New York, 1961. Comment: The only such comprehensive handbook ever produced, and at the dawn of the space age. (# 238) - Kolcum, Edward H, Aviation Week and Space Technology, "Martin Marietta Poised to Adapt External Tank for NLS Core", 1991-08-26, page 58. (# 82) - Komarov / Soyuz 1 article. (# 663) - Kondo, Yoji, Interstellar Spacecraft and Multigenerational Starships edited, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... (# 46) - Konecci, Eugene, Hunter, Maxwell, and Trapp, Robert, ed, Space Age in Fiscal Year 2001, American Astronautical Society, 1967. Comment: Papers from an American Astronautical Society conference in 1967. See what wonders (nuclear fusion drives, magnetic radiation/meteorite shields, etc.) were anticipated for now thirty years ago. (# 430) - Konyukhov, S N, 1999 IAF Congress, Amsterdam, "R-56 Heavy-Lift Booster", Paper IAA-99-IAA.2.3.02. Comment: As summarized by Marcus Lindroos. (# 417) - Konyukhov, S N, and Andreyev, L V, 49th International Astronautical Congress, "Big space unknown projects of M K Yangel", Sept 28 - Oct 2, 1998, Melbourne, Australia. (# 374) - Kozlov, D I, Konstruirovanie avtomaticheskikh kosmicheskikh apparatov, Mashnostroenie, Moscow, 1996. More at amazon.com... Comment: Technical account of the design of unmanned spacecraft by the Soviet Union's chief designer for reconnaisance satellites. (# 604) - Kraft, Christopher C, Flight: My Life in Mission Control, Penguin Putnam, 2002. More at amazon.com... (# 183) - Kraft, Christopher C, editor, Manned Spacecraft: Engineering Design and Operation, NASA, 1968.. Comment: Collection of articles presenting technical aspects of the design of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft. (# 492) - Kranz, Gene, Failure Is Not an Option, Berkley Publishing Group, 2000. More at amazon.com... Comment: OK biography of the most famous of the Apollo flight controllers. (# 206) - Krasnikov, Aleksandr, Russian Space History Web Site, "Pilotiruemiy polyot na Mars - chetvert veka nazad", . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.aha.ru/~kai/spaceflt/index.html. Comment: Overview of Soviet designs for manned Mars expeditions, based on material from article by Afanasyev, Igor, article of same title, Vestnik vozdyshnovo flota, n 7-8, 1996. (# 5) - Krebs, Gunter, Gunter's Space Page, University of Frankfurt, 1996. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.skyrocket.de/space. (# 329) - Kudryavtsev, V M, et.al., Osnovy Teorii i Rascheta, Moscow, Vysshaya Shkola, 1993 via Dietrich Haeseler. More at amazon.com... Comment: Russian-language textbook on rocket theory; contains some information on Russian rocket engines. (# 225) - Kudryavtseva, V M, ed., Zhidkostnikh Raketnikh Dvigatley, Visshaya Shkola, Moscow, 1993. More at amazon.com... Comment: Russian-language textbook on rocket theory. (# 697) - Kupriyanov, V K, and Chernyshev, V V, I vechniy start..., Moskovskiy Rabochiy, 1988. Comment: Biography of rocket engine designer Isayev. Published before the collapse of the Soviet Union, so still many details were kept secret. (# 502) - Kuzin, Anatoli and Pavlov, Konstantin, Aerospace Journal, "Space Power-Generation Modules", July-August 1996, page 26.. (# 258) - Lafferty, George H, Nuclear News, "Gas core nuclear rockets", October 1970, p 48. (# 121) - Lantratov, K., Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "'Zvezda' Dmitriya Kozlova", 1997, Issues 3 to 6 (four part article). (# 330) - Lardier, C, Air et Cosmos, "SS-18", 2 Sept. 1994 via Dietrich Haeseler. (# 481) - Larmore, L and Gervais, R L, Editors, Space Stations - Volume 27 - Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, AAS Publications Office, Tarzana, 1971. (# 664) - Lasser, David, Conquest of Space, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... (# 535) - Launius, Roger D, NASA Chief Historian, NASA History Office Home Page, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/index.html. (# 680) - Lay, Beirne Jr, Earthbound Astronauts, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1971. More at amazon.com... Comment: A book that unusually interviews some of the American 'Chief Designers' - the industrial managers and engineers behind the Apollo spacecraft and Saturn booster. (# 168) - Lebedev, D A, Spaceflight, "The N1-L3 Programme", 1992, Volume 34, page 288. (# 73) - Lebedev, Daniel B, Spaceflight, "Chelomei's Lunar Programme", 1993, Volume 35, page 228. (# 692) - Lebedev, Vladimir, and Gagarin, Yuri, Survival in Space, Bantam, 1969.. Comment: English-language version of a book co-authored by Gagarin on the psychological problems of spaceflight. (# 199) - Lee, Buron, Space, "Concerning Re-entry Capsules", May-June 1990, p. 23. (# 377) - Lehman, Milton, Robert H Goddard - Pioneer of Space Research, Da Capo, New York, 1988. More at amazon.com... Comment: Reprint of the classic Goddard biography, 'This High Man'. (# 4462) - Leitenberger, Bernd, OTRAG Rakete, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.bernd-leitenberger.de/otrag.shtml. (# 47) - Ley, Willy, Rockets Missiles and Men in Space, Viking Press, New York, 1968. More at amazon.com... Comment: Willy Ley was one of the great science writers and promoters of spaceflight in the 1950's. This book covers basic concepts and the history of rocketry up to the early 1960's. (# 676) - Ley, Willy, Watchers of the Skies, Viking, 1963. More at amazon.com... Comment: Invaluable popular history of astronomy and our knowledge of the other planets of the solar system. (# 703) - Ley, Willy, and Bonestell, Chesley, The Conquest of Space, Viking Press, 1949. Comment: Ley's clear prose and Bonestell's awesome paintings inspired a generation of scientists and engineers by showing that human exploration of space was possible, and what wonders awaited. (# 665) - Liebergot, Sy, Apollo EECOM Journey of a Lifetime, Collector's Guide Publishing, Ontario, Canada, 2003.. More at amazon.com... Comment: First-person account of a key member of ground control during the early space program. (# 484) - Lindroos, Marc, Marc Lindroos' Space Pages, . HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.abo.fi/~mlindroo/Space.htm. Comment: Marc Lindroos has compiled a huge amount of space historical material. (# 621) - Lindsay, Hamish, Tracking Apollo to the Moon, Springer-Verlag, 2001. More at amazon.com... Comment: Anecdotes from the tracking station point of view, as immortalised in the film 'The Dish'. (# 698) - Linenger, Jerry M, Off the Planet, McGraw-Hill, 2000. More at amazon.com... Comment: Autobiography of astronaut Jerry Linenger, who also flew aboard the Mir station. Unusually frank account of the American and Russian space programs, and of a long-duration mission in space. (# 179) - Lissov, I, and Tarasenko, M, Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "Zapushchen Kosmos-2348", 1997, Issue 26, page 33. (# 278) - Lockheed Martin Coporation, Atlas Family Fact Sheets, September 1998.. HTML (at time accessed; current validity unknown): http://www.lmco.com/ILS/txtmain/ils_lsysinfo.htm. (# 160) - Loftus, J P, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, "An Historical Overview of NASA Manned Spacecraft and their Crew Stations", 1985, Volume 38, page 354. (# 391) - Lovell, Jim, and Kluger, Jeffrey, Apollo 13, Pocket Books, New York, 1994. More at amazon.com... Comment: Lovell's account of Apollo 13, the basis for the movie. Original title 'Lost Moon'. (# 228) - Lowther, Scott, Saturn: Development, Details, Der