References

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References

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(# 328) - "Air-Launch aerospace complex", Leaflet by Kompomash and Polyot Aviation Company, ILA 97.
(# 362) - "History of the HL-20", . HTML (at time accessed): http://vab02.larc.nasa.gov/Activities/HL20/HL-20history.html (current validity unknown).
(# 261) - A Laser-Fusion Rocket Propulsion System, p. 198.
(# 271) - Acronyms and Abbreviations, NASA, Education Division, 1997. HTML (at time accessed): http://spacelink.nasa.gov/ (current validity unknown).
(# 208) - Advanced Gemini Spacecraft, Briefing, McDonnell Douglas, ca. 1967. Comment: Thanks to Mike Macowski for discovering and providing this material.
(# 405) - Aerospace Yearbook, 1966, .
(# 435) - AFFTC - Air Force Flight Test Center Home Page, August 23, 1999.. HTML (at time accessed): http://afftc.edwards.af.mil/pnov97/cover/ridley.html (current validity unknown).
(# 70) - Air International, 1992, Issue 9, page 149.
(# 479) - ASTRO-E Home Page, . HTML (at time accessed): http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/astroe_lc/what.html (current validity unknown).
(# 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.
(# 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.
(# 454) - Beal Aerospace Technologies Home Page, . HTML (at time accessed): http://www.bealaerospace.com/ (current validity unknown).
(# 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): http://www.buran.ru/homepage.htm (current validity unknown).
(# 95) - Burya article, Lavochkin web site.
(# 426) - California SpacePort Home Page, . HTML (at time accessed): http://www.calspace.com/ (current validity unknown).
(# 467) - Cape Business News, "South Africa - New life for local space programme", CBN Archive - September 1997.. HTML (at time accessed): http://www.cbn.co.za/archive/97-sep/cbnro.htm (current validity unknown).
(# 285) - China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, As of Nov 1998. HTML (at time accessed): http://www.calt.com.cn/ (current validity unknown).
(# 441) - China Lake Weapons Digest, . HTML (at time accessed): http://www.nawcwpns.navy.mil/~bronkhor/clmf/weapdig.html (current validity unknown).
(# 10) - Conquerors of Space, The Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center, 1997. HTML (at time accessed): http://howe.iki.rssi.ru/GCTC/gctc_e.htm (current validity unknown).
(# 433) - Federation of American Scientists Web Site, . HTML (at time accessed): http://www.fas.org/ (current validity unknown).
(# 209) - Gemini-Derived Lunar Rescue Vehicles, Briefing, McDonnell Douglas, ca. 1966. Comment: Thanks to Mike Macowski for discovering and providing this material.
(# 406) - Great Wall Corporation Web Site, As of May 1999. HTML (at time accessed): http://space.cgwic.com/ (current validity unknown).
(# 260) - Hall Effect Thrusters with Anode Layer, TsNIIMASH-Export Ltd Sales Brochure, 1996.
(# 444) - Hughes HS 702 Fact Sheet, . HTML (at time accessed): http://www.hughespace.com/factsheets/702/702.html (current validity unknown).
(# 248) - Interplanetary Spacecraft, .
(# 466) - Introduction to the RSA-4 Launch Vehicle, Sales brochure, Houwteq, undated..
(# 477) - Istoriya Rossiskoi Sovietskoi kosmonavtiki, "Makeyev Viktor Petrovich", Web site, 2000.. HTML (at time accessed): http://www.space.hobby.ru/ (current validity unknown).
(# 6) - JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. HTML (at time accessed): http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html (current validity unknown).
(# 220) - Khrunichev Brochure, 1996.
(# 346) - Launch Kit Flight 02, Starsem Paris 1999 (http://www.starsem.com/newsst_kit.html).
(# 407) - Mars Polar Lander Home Page, . HTML (at time accessed): http://www.marspolarlander.com/ (current validity unknown).
(# 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): http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/html/home.htm (current validity unknown).
(# 12) - NASA Astronaut Biographies, Johnson Space Center, NASA, 1995-present. HTML (at time accessed): http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/ (current validity unknown).
(# 459) - NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Web Site, . HTML (at time accessed): http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/ (current validity unknown).
(# 363) - NASA Facts On-Line, "HL-20 MODEL FOR PERSONNEL LAUNCH SYSTEM RESEARCH", NF172 - April 1992. HTML (at time accessed): http://oea.larc.nasa.gov/PAIS/HL-20.html (current validity unknown).
(# 276) - NASA GSFC Orbital Parameters, .
(# 7) - NASA Shuttle Mission Press Kits, NASA, 1981-present. HTML (at time accessed): http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/presskit/presskit.htm (current validity unknown).
(# 8) - NASA Shuttle-Mir Web, NASA, 1997. HTML (at time accessed): http://shuttle-mir.nasa.gov/ops/mir/ (current validity unknown).
(# 15) - NASA Space Shuttle Launches, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, 1996. HTML (at time accessed): http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/missions.html (current validity unknown).
(# 298) - NASA�s Life Sciences Data Archive (LSDA), . HTML (at time accessed): http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/life.htm#top (current validity unknown).
(# 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): http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetary_home.html (current validity unknown).
(# 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, "Proizbeden 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.
(# 412) - Novosti kosmonavtiki, Issue 15, 1995.
(# 359) - Novosti kosmonavtiki, Issue 2, 1999.
(# 403) - Novosti kosmonavtiki, Issue 3, 1999.
(# 352) - Novosti kosmonavtiki, Issues. 21-22, 1998.
(# 297) - NSSDC System for Information Retrieval and Storage (SIRS), .
(# 90) - Patrick AFB Chronology, . HTML (at time accessed): Internet (current validity unknown).
(# 195) - Placard, Baikonur Museum, .
(# 196) - Placard, Kaluga Museum, .
(# 194) - Placard, Orevo Museum of MAI, .
(# 193) - Placard, TsNIIMASH Museum, .
(# 427) - Pratt & Whitney Home Page, . HTML (at time accessed): http://www.pratt-whitney.com/ (current validity unknown).
(# 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): http://www.ilslaunch.com/ILS/services/mpg/index.htm (current validity unknown).
(# 354) - RD-170, Information leaflet from Pratt & Whitney, dated 1/95.
(# 355) - RD-180, Information leaflet from Pratt & Whitney, dated 5/97.
(# 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..
(# 342) - Russian Arms Catalogue, Vol 5 and 6, Military Parade, Moscow.
(# 319) - Russian Space Industry, Federation of American Scentists Web Pages, 1998. HTML (at time accessed): http://www.fas.org/spp/civil/russia/ (current validity unknown).
(# 230) - Saturn V Improvement Study, Final report, NASA Contract NAS8-11359.
(# 468) - South Africa's Nuclear Autopsy, "The Risk Report", Volume 2 Number 1 (January-February 1996) Page 4, 5, 10.. HTML (at time accessed): http://www.wisconsinproject.org/countries/safrica/autopsy.html (current validity unknown).
(# 241) - South African Air Force Museum - RSA-3 Exhibits, .
(# 345) - Soyuz Launcher User Manual, .
(# 145) - Spaceflight, "Most Efficient Chemical Rocket", 1978, Volume 20, page 153. Comment: ASE Description.
(# 98) - Suborbital flights listing (internet post), .
(# 305) - The Project Horizon Report, US Army, 9 June 1959. HTML (at time accessed): ../articles/propter1.htm (current validity unknown).
(# 489) - The Space Suit Page, . HTML (at time accessed): http://strangeblue.iwarp.com/spacesuits/ (current validity unknown).
(# 410) - Thiokol Corporation Web Site, As of May, 1999. HTML (at time accessed): http://www.thiokol.com (current validity unknown).
(# 223) - Titan Marketing Brochure, Martin Company, 1967.
(# 1) - USAF Satellite Database, USAF Institute of Technology, 1995. HTML (at time accessed): ftp://archive.afit.af.mil/pub/space/ (current validity unknown).
(# 434) - Xinhua News Agency, "Press dispatches", . HTML (at time accessed): http://xinhua.org/ (current validity unknown).
(# 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.
(# 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.
(# 233) - Alexander, George, Aviation Week and Space Technology, "Manned Flight Planning Gap Delays Saturn Development", 1966-08-08, page 60.
(# 378) - Alway, Peter, Rockets of the World, Saturn Press, Ann Arbor, 1995. 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.
(# 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", .
(# 486) - Arkin, WIlliam M, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, "Unindicted co-conspirators", July/August 1992. HTML (at time accessed): http://www.bullatomsci.org/issues/1992/ja92/ja92.perspectives.html (current validity unknown).
(# 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.
(# 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.
(# 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.
(# 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. 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.
(# 63) - Benson, Charles D, Faherty,William Barnaby, Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations SP-4204 1978, NASA. HTML (at time accessed): http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4204/cover.html (current validity unknown). 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): http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/opapers/op2/index.htm (current validity unknown).
(# 222) - Bilstein, Roger E, Stages to Saturn, US Government Printing Office, 1980. Comment: Excellent account of the evolution, design, and development of the Saturn launch vehicles.
(# 277) - Boeing Corporation, Delta III Payload Planner's Guide, Publication number MDC 95H0137A, March 1997.. HTML (at time accessed): http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/delta/delta3/d3kit.htm (current validity unknown).
(# 214) - Bono, Philip, Advanced in the Astronautical Sciences, "Design Objectives for Tomorow's Big Boosters", 1963.
(# 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.
(# 156) - Borrowman, G L, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, "Kosmoljot - Soviet Wings into Space", 1982, Volume 35, page 75.
(# 270) - Bradford, Mark, Frequently Seen Space/Astronomy Acronyms, Edition 13, 1998 Mar 31. HTML (at time accessed): http://www.users.uswest.net/~dinosaur/list.html (current validity unknown).
(# 126) - Bramscher, Robert G, Spaceflight, "A Survey of Launch Vehicle Failures", 1980, Volume 22, page 351.
(# 27) - Brooks, Courtney G, Grimwood, Hames M, Swenson, Lloyd S, Chariots for Apollo, Government Printing Office, 1989. HTML (at time accessed): http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4205/cover.html (current validity unknown). Comment: The official version - NASA's history of the Apollo program.
(# 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.
(# 393) - Burrough, Bryan, Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir, Harper Collins, New York, 1998. 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. 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.
(# 389) - Caidin, Martin, Marooned, Bantam, New York, 1969. Comment: Caidin was the best 'space fiction' writer and this his best known work. The original 1964 edition involved a Mercury capsule; this was updated to Apollo/Skylab for the movie in 1969.
(# 432) - Caprara, Giovanni, L'Italia nello Spazio, Valerio Levi Editions, 1992.
(# 490) - Carey,Christopher T, Supporting Life at 80,000 feet: - Evolution of the American High Altitude Pressure Suit, . HTML (at time accessed): http://www.lanset.com/aeolusaero/Articles/SSuits.htm (current validity unknown).
(# 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. 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.
(# 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. 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..
(# 29) - Chacko, George K, ed., Reducing the Cost of Space Transportation, AAS Science and Technology Series, Vol. 21, 1969. 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. Comment: Highly touted but perhaps overrated survey of the Apollo missions.
(# 31) - Chang, Iris, Thread of the Silkworm, Basic Books, New York, 1995. 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): http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/1921/ (current validity unknown). Comment: The best source anywhere for information on current news regarding the Chinese space program.
(# 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.. Comment: Russian language autobiography in two volumes of one of Korolev's chief assistants.
(# 181) - Chugunova, Nina, Ogonyok, "Kosmonavti Chelomeya", January 1993, No. 4-5, page 24.
(# 246) - Clark, John D, Ignition!, New York, 1971. 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. 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): http://www.launchspace.com/mag/0305/project921.html (current validity unknown).
(# 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. 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.
(# 390) - Cooper, Henry S F, Moonwreck, Granada, London, 1975. 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.
(# 351) - Data sheets NPO Trud.
(# 400) - Day, Dwayne A (Editor), et. al., Eye in the Sky : The Story of the Corona Spy Satellites, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.
(# 280) - Day, Dwayne Allen, sci.space.history Newsgroup, "re: Brief overview of SOLRAD/GREB project", posting, 1998-06-23.
(# 171) - Day, Dwayne, Spaceflight, "Response to Letter to the Editor", 1995, Volume 37, page 282.
(# 480) - Dorman, Bernie, et. al., Aerojet: The Creative Company, Stuart F Cooper Company, Los Angeles, 1995..
(# 251) - Dornheim, Michael R, Aviation Week and Space Technology, "Mitsubishi Planning to Test Liquid Air Cycle Rocket Engine", 1992-05-11, page 54.
(# 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): http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/timeline.html (current validity unknown).
(# 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): http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/timeline.html (current validity unknown).
(# 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): http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4009/cover.htm (current validity unknown).
(# 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.
(# 452) - Ezell, Edward Clinton and Ezell, Linda Neuman, The Partnership: A History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, NASA History Series SP-4209, 1978..
(# 386) - Fallaci, Oriana, If the Sun Dies, Kingsport Press, New York, 1966. 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.
(# 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.
(# 461) - Ford, Brian, German Secret Weapons: Blueprint for Mars, Ballantine, New York, 1969.
(# 14) - Fredriksson, Urban, Missile Non-Comparision Tables, 1997. HTML (at time accessed): http://www.kuai.se/%7Egriffon/aviation/text/robodata.htm#aam (current validity unknown).
(# 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. Comment: Summary of all manned spaceflights up to 1986. Pre-Glasnost, so many 'war stories' of Soviet manned spaceflight are not included.
(# 36) - Gatland, Kenneth and Bono, Philip, Frontiers of Space, Macmillan, New York, 1969. 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. Comment: First of a marvelous series of pocket-size hardbacks covering spacecraft and rocketry.
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(# 455) - Isakowitz, Steven J,, International Reference to Space Launch Systems Third Edition, AIAA, Washington DC, 2000. Comment: The best reference on launch vehicles ever produced.
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(# 132) - Pike, Christopher Anson, Spaceflight, "Canyon, Rhyolite and Aquacade: US Signals Intelligence in the 1970s", 1995, Volume 37, page 381.
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