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A Space Exploration Bibliography
Astronomy/Cosmology

Adams, Fred, and Greg Laughlin. The Five Ages of the Universe: Inside the Physics of Eternity. New York: Free Press, 1999.

Allen, Richard Hinckley. Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning. Mineola: Dover, 1963.

Aveni, Anthony. Ancient Astronomers. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993; and Stairways to the Stars: Skywatching in the Three Great Ancient Cultures. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.

Aveni, Anthony, editor. Archaeoastronomy in Pre-Columbian America. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1975; and Native American Astronomy. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977.

Barrow, John D. The Origin of the Universe. New York: Basic, 1994.

Beatty, J. Kelly, Andrew L. Chaikin, and Carolyn Collins Petersen, editors. The New Solar System. 4th edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Bodanis, David. E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation. New York: Walker, 2000.

Brecher, Kenneth, and Michael Feirtag, editors. Astronomy of the Ancients. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1979.

Brush, Stephen G. Nebulous Earth: The Origin of the Solar System and the Core of the Earth from Laplace to Jeffreys. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Burnham, Robert, Jr. Burnham's Celestial Handbook: An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System. Mineola: Dover, 1983.

Calvin, William H. How the Shaman Stole the Moon: In Search of Ancient Prophet-Scientists from Stonehenge to the Grand Canyon. New York: Bantam, 1991.

Cole, K. C. The Hole in the Univserse: How Scientists Peered Over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything. New York: Harcourt, 2001.

Consolmagno, Guy. Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Cornell, James. The First Stargazers: An Introduction to the Origins of Astronomy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981.

Crowe, Michael J. Modern Theories of the Universe: From Herschel to Hubble. Mineola: Dover, 1994.

Danielson, Dennis Richard. The Book of the Cosmos: Imagining the Universe from Heraclitus to Hawking. Cambridge: Perseus, 2000.

Davies, Paul. The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures about the Ultimate Fate of the Universe. New York: Basic, 1994.

Delsemme, Armand. Our Cosmic Origins: From the Big Bang to the Emergence of Life and Intelligence. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Dickerson, Terence. Nightwatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe. Willowdale: Firefly, 1998.

Dressler, Alan. Voyage to the Great Attractor: Exploring Intergalactic Space. New York: Knopf, 1994.

Evans, James. The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Fairall, Anthony. Cosmology Revealed: Living Inside the Cosmic Egg. New York: Springer, 2001.

Ferguson, Kitty. Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time. New York: Walker, 1999.

Ferris, Timothy. The Whole Shebang: A State of the Universe(s) Report. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Filkin, David. Stephen Hawking's Universe: The Cosmos Explained. New York: Basic, 1997.

Gingerich, Owen. The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler. New York: American Institute of Physics, 1993.

Goldsmith, Donald. Einsteinšs Greatest Blunder? The Cosmological Constant and Other Fudge Factors in the Physics of the Universe. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Grant, Edward. Planets, Stars, and Orbs: The Medieval Cosmos: 1200-1687. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Greene. Brian. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory. New York: Vintage, 2000.

Gribbin, John. The Birth of Time: How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

Guth, Alan. The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins. Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1997.

Hadingham, Evan. Early Man and the Cosmos. New York: Walker, 1984.

Halpern, Paul. The Structure of the Universe. New York: Henry Holt, 1997.

Hawking, Stephen. The Illustrated A Brief History of Time. updated and expanded edition. New York: Bantam, 1996.

Hawkins, Gerald S. Beyond Stonehenge. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.

Hawkins, Gerald S. and John B. White (Contributor). Stonehenge Decoded. Garden City: Doubleday, 1965.

Hearnshaw, J. B. The Measurement of Starlight: Two Centuries of Astronomical Photometry. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Hetherington, Barry. A Chronicle of Pre-Telescopic Astronomy. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.

Hoskin, Michael. Cambridge Concise History of Astronomy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Hoyle, Fred. On Stonehenge. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1977.

Kolb, Rocky. Blind Watchers of the Sky: The People and Ideas that Shaped Our Ideas of the Universe. Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1996.

Kragh, Helge. Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Krupp, E. C. Echoes of the Ancient Skies: The Astronomy of Lost Civilizations. New York: Harper & Row, 1983; and Skywatchers, Shamans & Kings: Astronomy and the Archaeology of Power. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.

Krupp, E. C., editor. In Search of Ancient Astronomies. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978.

Leverington, David. A History of Astronomy from 1890 to the Present. New York: Springer Verlag, 1995; and New Cosmic Horizons: Space Astronomy from the V2 to the Hubble Space Telescope. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman. The Dawn of Astronomy: A Study of the Temple Worship and Mythology of the Ancient Egyptians. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1964.

Lovi, George, and Wil Tirion. Men, Monsters, and the Modern Universe. Richmond: Willmann-Bell, 1989.

MacDonald, John. The Arctic Sky: Inuit Astronomy, Star Lore, and Legend. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum and Nunavet Research Institute, 1998.

Miller, Dorcas. Stars of the First People: Native American Star Myths and Constellations. Boulder: Pruett, 1997.

Moore, Patrick. The Great Astronomical Revolution: 1534-1687 and the Space Age Epilogue. Chichester: Albion, 1994; and Atlas of the Universe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Moore, Patrick, and Alan Chapman. Patrick Moore's Millennium Yearbook: The View from AD 1001. New York: Springer Verlag, 1999.

Motz, Lloyd, and Jefferson Hane Weaver. The Story of Astronomy. New York: Plenum, 1995.

Nicholson, Iain. Unfolding Our Universe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

North, John. The Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology. New York: Norton, 1995.

North, John David. The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern Cosmology. Mineola: Dover, 1991; and Stonehenge: A New Interpretation of Prehistoric Man and the Cosmos. New York: Free Press, 1996.

Packard, Edward. Imagining the Universe: A Visual Journey. New York: Berkeley, 1994.

Panek, Richard. Seeing and Believing: How the Telescope Opened Our Eyes and Minds to the Heavens. New York: Viking, 1998.

Pasachoff, Jay M., Hyron Spinrad, Patrick Osmer, and Edward S. Cheng. The Farthest Things in the Universe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Pedersen, Olaf. Early Physics and Astronomy: A Historical Introduction. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Peebles, Curtis. Asteroids: A History. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.

Petersen, Carolyn Collins and John C. Brandt. Hubble Vision: Further Adventures with the Hubble Space Telescope. 2nd edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Smolin, Lee. The Life of the Cosmos. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Stephenson, Bruce, Marvin Bolt, and Anna Felicity Friedman. The Universe Unveiled: Instruments and Images through History. Chicago: Adler Planetarium and Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Tirion, Wil. Cambridge Star Atlas. 3rd edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Trefil, James. Other Worlds: Images of the Cosmos from Earth and Space. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1999.

Walker, Christopher, editor. Astronomy Before the Telescope. London: British Museum, 1996.

Williamson, Ray A. Living the Sky: The Cosmos of the American Indian. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.

Wilson, Robert. Astronomy through the Ages: The Story of the Human Attempt to Understand the Universe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Webb, Stephen. Measuring the Universe: The Cosmological Distance Ladder. New York: Springer, 1999.

Weinberg, Steven. The First Three Minutes: A Modern Theory of the Origin of the Universe, updated edition. New York: Basic, 1993

Zeilik, Michael. Astronomy: The Evolving Universe. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

 

Manned/Unmanned Space Exploration

Aldrin, Buzz, and John Barnes. The Return. New York: Forge, 2000.

Aldrin, Buzz, and Malcolm McConnell. Men from Earth. New York: Bantam, 1989.

Allday, Jonathan. Apollo in Perspective: Spaceflight Then and Now. Philadelphia: Institute of Physics, 2000.

Allen, Joe. Entering Space. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1987.

Bean, Alan, Andrew L. Chaikin (Contributor), and John Glenn (Contributor). Apollo: An Eyewitness Account by Astronaut/Explorer Artist/Moonwalker. Shelton: Greenwich Workshop, 1998.

Beattie, Donald A. Taking Science to the Moon: Lunar Experiments and the Apollo Program. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Benson, Charles D., and William B. Faherty. Gateway to the Moon. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2001; and Moon Launch!. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2001.

Bergreen, Laurence. Voyage to Mars: NASA's Search for Life beyond Earth. New York: Riverhead, 2000.

Berry, Adrian. The Giant Leap: Mankind Heads for the Stars. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2000.

Braun, Wernher von. The Mars Project. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1953.

Brooks, Courtney, James Grimwood, and Lloyd Swenson. Chariots for Apollo. Washington, DC: NASA, 1979.

Burrough, Bryan. Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir. New York: HarperCollins, 1998.

Burrows, William E. Exploring Space: Voyages in the Solar System and Beyond. New York: Random House, 1990; The Infinite Journey: Eyewitness Accounts of NASA and the Age of Space. New York: Discovery, 2000; and This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age. New York: Random House, 1998.

Caprara, Giovanni. Living in Space: From Science Fiction to the International Space Station. Willowdale: Firefly, 2000.

Carpenter, Scott, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Donald Slayton. We Seven. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962.

Cassutt, Michael. Who's Who in Space. New York: Macmillan, 1999.

Catchpole, John. Project Mercury: NASA's First Manned Space Programme. New York: Springer Verlag, 2001.

Cernan, Eugene, and Don Davis. The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space. New York: St. Martin's, 1999.

Chaikin, Andrew L. A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts. New York: Viking, 1994.

Clarke, Phillip. The Soviet Manned Space Program: An Illustrated History of the Men, the Missions, and the Spacecraft. New York: Crown, 1988.

Collins, Michael. Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys. Pleasantville: Adventure Library, 1998.

Cooper, Gordon, and Bruce Henderson. Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey into the Unkown. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.

Crouch, Tom D. Aiming for the Stars: The Dreamers and Doers of the Space Age. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999.

Damon, Thomas. Introduction to Space: The Science of Spaceflight. 3rd edition. Melbourne: Krieger, 2001.

Dickson, Paul. Sputnik: The Shock of the Century. New York: Walker, 2001.

Foale, Colin. Waystation to the Stars: The Story of Mir, Michael and Me. London: Headline, 1999.

Freeman, Marsha. Challenges of Human Space Exploration. New York: Springer Verlag, 2000.

Gavaghan, Helen. Something New Under the Sun: Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age. New York: Springer Verlag, 1998.

Glenn, John and Nick Taylor (Contributor). John Glenn: A Memoir. New York: Bantam, 1999.

Goldsmith, Donald W. Voyage to the Milky Way: The Future of Space Exploration. New York: TV, 1999.

Hallion, Richard P. On the Frontier: Flight Research at Dryden: 1946-1981. Washington, DC: NASA, 1984; and Test Pilots: The Frontiersmen of Flight. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988.

Harford, James. Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.

Harland, David M. Exploring the Moon: The Apollo Expeditions. New York: Springer Verlag, 1999.

Harrison, Albert A. Spacefaring: The Human Dimension. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Hartmann, William K. The Cosmic Voyage. Belmont: Wadsworth, 1992.

Heppenheimer, T. A. Countdown: A History of Space Flight. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.

Hoffman, Jeffrey A. An Astronaut's Diary. Montclair: Caliban, 1986.

Isakowitz, Steven J. International Reference Guide to Space Launch Systems. Washington, DC: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1991.

Jenkins, Dennis R. Space Shuttle: The History of the National Space Transportation System: The First 100 Missions. Cape Canaveral: Dennis R. Jenkins, 2001.

Kelly, Thomas J. Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001.

Kluger, Jeffrey. Moon Hunters: Remarkable Expeditions to the Ends of the Solar System. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

Kozloski, Lillian D. U. S. Space Gear: Outfitting the Astronaut. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.

Kraemer, Robert S. Beyond the Moon: A Golden Age of Planetary Exploration: 1971-78. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.

Kraft, Chris. Flight: My Life in Mission Control. New York: Dutton, 2001.

Kranz, Gene. Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

Launias, Roger D. Frontiers of Space Exploration. Westport: Greenwood, 1998.

Lee, Wayne. To Rise from Earth: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to Spaceflight, 2nd edition. New York: Checkmark, 2000.

Ley, Willy. Rockets, Missiles, and Men in Space. New York: Viking, 1968.

Ley, Willy, and Chesley Bonestell. Conquest of Space. New York: Viking, 1949.

Light, Michael, and Andrew L. Chaikin (Contributor). Full Moon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

Lindsay, Hamish. Tracking Apollo to the Moon. New York: Springer Verlag, 2001.

Linenger, Jerry M. Off the Planet: Surviving Five Months Aboard the Space Station Mir. Secaucus: Carol, 1999.

Lovell, Jim, and Jeffrey Kluger. Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994; and Apollo 13, anniversary edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

McDougall, Walter A. The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age. New York: Basic, 1985.

Miller, Jay. Soviet Space. Fort Worth: Fort Worth Museum of Science & History, 1991; and X-Planes: X-1 to X-45. Leicester: Midland, 2001.

Moore, Patrick. Mission to the Planets: The Illustrated Story of Man's Exploration of the Solar System. London: Cassell, 1995.

Murray, Bruce C. Journey into Space: The First Three Decades of Space Exploration. New York: Norton, 1989.

Murray, Charles, and Catherine Bly Cox. Apollo: The Race to the Moon. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.

Oberg, James E. Red Star in Orbit. New York: Random House, 1981.

Pearcy, Arthur. Flying the Frontiers: NACA and NASA Experimental Aircraft. Shrewsbury: Airlife, 1993.

Peebles, Curtis, and Milton O. Thompson. Flying without Wings: NASA Lifting Bodies and the Birth of the Space Shuttle. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999.

Pellegrino, Charles R., and Joshua Stoff. Chariots for Apollo: The Untold Story Behind the Race to the Moon. New York: Avon, 1999.

Piszkiewicz, Dennis. Wernher Von Braun. Westport: Praeger, 1999.

Riabchikov, Evgeny Russians in Space. Garden City. New York: Doubleday, 1971.

Ryan, Craig. The Pre-Astronauts: Manned Ballooning on the Threshold of Space. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995.

Schefter, James L. The Race: The Uncensored Story of How America Beat Russia to the Moon. New York: Doubleday, 1999.

Schirra, Walter M., and Richard N. Billings (Contributor). Schirra's Space. Boston: Quinlan, 1989.

Shayler, David J., and Thomas P. Stafford. Gemini Steps to the Moon. New York: Springer Verlag, 2001.

Sheehan, William. Worlds in the Sky: Planetary Discovery from Earliest Times through Voyager and Magellan. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1992.

Shelton, William. Soviet Space Exploration: The First Decade. New York: Washington Square, 1968.

Shepard, Alan, Donald K. Slayton, Neil Armstrong (Contributor), Jay Barbree (Contributor), and Howard Benedict (Contributor). Moon Shot: The inside Story of America's Race to the Moon. Atlanta: Turner, 1994.

Slayton, Donald K., and Michael Cassutt. Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury to the Shuttle. New York: Forge, 1994.

Still, Russell, and Guenter Wendt. The Unbroken Chain. Austin: Apogee, 2001.

Stine, Harry. Living in Space: A Handbook for Work & Exploration Beyond the Earth's Atmosphere. New York: M. Evans, 1997.

Stumpf, David K. and Jay W. Kelley. Titan II: A History of a Cold War Missile Program. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000.

Thompson, Milton O. At the Edge of Space: The X-15 Flight Program. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.

Wachhorst, Wyn, and Buzz Aldrin (Contributor). The Dream of Spaceflight: Essays on the Near Edge of Infinity. New York: Basic, 2000.

Wagner, Richard. Designs on Space: Blueprints for 21st Century Space Exploration. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

Walsh, Patrick J. Echoes Among the Stars: A Short History of the U.S. Space Program. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.

Wilhelms, Don. To a Rocky Moon: A Geologist's History of Lunar Exploration. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994.

Williamson, Mark. The Cambridge Dictionary of Space Technology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Wolfe, Tom. The Right Stuff. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979.

Zimmerman, Robert. The Chronological Encyclopedia of Discoveries in Space. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 2000; and Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8: The First Manned Flight to Another World. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1998.

Zubrin, Robert. Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization. New York: Putnam, 1999.

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