Libros de NASA History Office

Archaeology, Anthropology And Interstellar Communication

• Addressing a field that has been dominated by astronomers, physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, the contributors to this collection raise questions that may have been overlooked by physical scientists about the ease of establishing meaningful...

Crafting Flight

Project Apollo

• 172 páginas
• NASA Monograph in Aerospace History series, number 37.

Mission To Jupiter

• Full color reprint of NASA History Office Study of 2007. Illustrated throughout.

Remembering The Giants

• Full color publication. Topics discussed include: Rocketdyne - F-1 Saturn V First Stage Engine; Rocketdyne - J-2 Saturn V 2nd & 3rd Stage Engine; Rocketdyne - SE-7 & SE-8 Engines; Aerojet - AJ10-137 Apollo Service Module Engine; Aerojet - Attitude...

Coming Home

Pursuit Of Power

When Biospheres Collide

• NASA SP-2011-4234. This book presents the history of planetary protection by tracing the responses to the concerns on NASA’s missions to the Moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and many smaller bodies of our solar system. The book relate...

Challenge To Apollo

• 1030 páginas
• Taking advantage of the Soviet archives, which were opened in the 1990s, Siddiqi has written a groundbreaking work that examines why the Soviet Union fell behind in the space race of the 1960s after changing the course of human history with the first arti...

Stages To Saturn

• NASA SP 4206. NASA History Series. Study of the development of the Saturn launch vehicle for the Apollo Moon Missions. Recounts the exploits of the Saturn vehicle’s operational life from orbital missions around Earth testing Apollo equip...

Toward Mach 2

The Smell Of Kerosene

• 266 páginas
• The author gives the reader fascinating firsthand descriptions of his early naval flight training, carrier operations, and his research flying carrer with NASA and its predecessor agency, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA).

Rockets And People, Volume I (nasa History Series. Nasa Sp-2005-4110)

• Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program, but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoir of academician Boris...