NASA Books

• NASA Histories On-Line on-line book series:
  • Vanguard: A History (Washington, D.C.: NASA SP-4202, 1970, rep. ed. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1971). By Constance McLaughlin Green and Milton Lomask.
  • Beyond the Atmosphere: Early Years of Space Science (Washington, D.C.: NASA SP-4211, 1980). Written by Homer Newell, former NASA associate administrator for space science.
  • This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury (Washington, D.C.: NASA SP-4201, 1966). By Loyd S. Swenson, Jr., James M. Grimwood, and Charles C. Alexander.
  • On the Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini (Washington, D.C.: NASA SP-4203, 1977). By Barton C. Hacker and James M. Grimwood.
  • Apollo Program:
    • Apollo Expeditions to the Moon (#SP-350)
    • Apollo Over the Moon - A View From Orbit (#SP-362)
    • Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations (Washington, D.C.: NASA SP-4204, 1978). By Charles D. Benson and William Barnaby Faherty.
    • Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Explorations Missions (Washington, D.C.: NASA SP-4214, 1989). By William David Compton.
    • Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft by Courtney G. Brooks. James M. Grimwood and Loyd S. Swenson, Jr.
    • The Apollo Spacecraft - A Chronology
    • Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis (Washington, D.C.: Monographs in Aerospace History, No. 3, 1994). By Roger D. Launius.
    • Project Apollo Annotated Bibliography
  • Computers in Spaceflight -- The NASA Experience by James E. Tomayko
  • On Mars: Exploration of the Red Planet 1958-1978 (Washington, D.C.: NASA SP-4212, 1984). Written by Linda Ezell and Edward Ezell. Covers the Mariner, Voyager, and Viking projects.
• NASA History Series Publications includes the above publications, and other on-line publications such as the ones below. Also lists other books from the same series that are available off-line, plus other books that are out of print but which you may be able to find.
  • Enchanted Rendezvous - John C. Houbolt and the Genesis of the Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous Concept history monograph
  • A Meeting with the Universe-  Science Discoveries from the Space Program
• Other NASA Publications
  • NASA Spacelink Educational Publications. Many are available as downloadable .PDF files. Also has videos that you may be able to view online.
  • An Exobiology Strategy for Mars Exploration NASA HQ report, January 1995
  • Space Settlements NASA Ames/Stanford 1975 Summer Study. Part of Orbital Space Settlements