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Aiming for the stars: the dreamers and doers of the space age. Tom D. Crouch. TL788.5.C67 1999

Airmen and air theory: a review of the sources. Phillip S. Meilinger. UG626.M49 2001

America on the moon: the enterprise of the 60's. Jay Holmes. TL789.8.U5.H6 1962

Apollo: the Epic Journey to the Moon. David West Reynolds. TL789.8.U6.A58113 2002

Apollo: the lost and forgotten missions. David J. Shayler. TL789.8.U6.A581767 2002

Apollo: the race to the moon. Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox. TL789.8.U6.A558 1989

Apollo 13. Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger. TL789.8.U6.A5490 2000

At the edge of space: the X-15 flight program. Milton O. Thompson; foreword by Neil A. Armstrong. TL789.8.U6.X578 1992

The aviation legacy of Henry & Edsel Ford. Timothy J. O'Callaghan. TL686.F65.O28 2000

Before Amelia: Women Pilots in the Early Days of Aviation. Eileen F. Lebow. TL539.L42 2002

Before this decade is out--: personal reflections on the Apollo Program. Edited by Glen E. Swanson. TL789.8.U6.A5187 2002

Beyond the Ionosphere : Fifty Years of Satellite Communication. Andrew J. Butrica, editor. TK5104.B48 1997

The Black Swallow of Death; the incredible story of Eugene Jacques Bullard, the world's first Black combat aviator. P. J. Carisella and James W. Ryan. TL540.B935.C277

The birth of NASA: the diary of T. Keith Glennan. T. Keith Glennan. TL521.A333 no.4105

Blueprint for Space: Science fiction to Science Fact. edited by Frederick I. Ordway III and Randy Liebermann. TL790.B64 1991

Carrying the fire; an astronaut's journeys. Michael Collins. With a foreword by Charles A. Lindbergh. TL789.85.C64.A33 1974

Challenger : a major malfunction. Malcolm McConnell. TL867.M36 1987

Chariots for Apollo: a history of manned lunar spacecraft. Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, Loyd S. Swenson, Jr. TL521.A333 no.4205

China's space program: from conception to manned flight. Brian Harvey. TL789.8.C55.H36 2004

Choosing the right stuff : the psychological selection of astronauts and cosmonauts. Patricia A. Santy. TL856.S26 1994

Comm check...the final flight of Shuttle Columbia. Michael Cabbage and William Harwood. TL867.C33 2004

The commanding heights: the battle for the world economy. Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw. HD87.Y47 2002

Concorde and the Americans : international politics of the supersonic transport. Kenneth Owen. TL685.7.O94 1997

Countdown: an autobiography. Frank Borman with Robert J. Serling. TL789.85.B67.A3 1988

The decision to go to the moon: Project Apollo and the national interest. John M. Logsdon. TL789.8.U5.L832

Doolittle, aerospace visionary. Dik Alan Daso. TL540.D62.D37 2003

Dr. Eckener's Dream Machine : the great zeppelin and the dawn of air travel. Douglas Botting. TL659.G7.B68 2001

Dragonfly : NASA and the crisis aboard Mir. Bryan Burrough. TL867.B87 1998

East to the dawn: the life of Amelia Earhart. Susan Butler. TL540.E3.B88 1997

Electronics in the evolution of flight. Albert Helfrick. TL695.H42 2004

Failure is not an option: mission control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and beyond. Gene Kranz. TL873.K73 2000

Fallen astronauts: heroes who died reaching for the moon. Colin Burgess and Kate Doolan, with Bert Vis ; with a foreword by Eugene A. Cernan. TL789.85.A1.B85 2003

Famous First Flights that Changed History. Lowell Thomas & Lowell Thomas, Jr. TL515.T458

Fighter pilot's heaven : flight testing the early jets. Donald S. Lopez. TL685.3.L67 1995

First on the moon. A voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins [and] Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. Written with Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin. Epilogue by Arthur C. Clarke. TL789.8.U6.A56.A737

The first space race: launching the world's first satellites. Matt Bille and Erika Lishock ; foreword by James A. Van Allen. TL796.5.U5.B54 2004

Flight: my life in mission control. Chris Craft. TL789.85.K7.A3 2001

Flying without wings: NASA lifting bodies and the birth of the space shuttle. Milton O. Thompson and Curtis Peebles. TL713.7.T49 1999

For spacious skies: the uncommon journey of a Mercury astronaut. Scott Carpenter and Kris Stoever. TL789.85.C37.A3 2002

From autogiro to gyroplane : the amazing survival of an aviation technology. Bruce H. Charnov; foreword by John Lienhard. TL715.C43 2003

Gateway to the moon : building the Kennedy Space Center launch complex. Charles D. Benson and William B. Faherty. TL4027.F52.B46 2001

Gemini : Steps to the Moon. David J. Shayler. TL789.8.U6.G673 2001

Glare : history of the development of a new aircraft material. Ad Vlot. TL680.V58 2001

The Heavens and the Earth: a Political History of the Space Age. Walter A. McDougall. TL789.8.U5.M34 1985

High calling: the courageous life and faith of space shuttle Columbia commander Rick Husband. Evelyn Husband with Donna VanLiere. TL789.85.H87.H87 2003

The Hindenburg. Michael Macdonald Mooney. TL659.H5.M818

History of the space shuttle. T.A. Heppenheimer. TL795.5.H4697 2002

Hornet's nest: the experiences of one of the U.S. Navy's first female fighter pilots. Missy Cummings. VB324.W65.C86 1999

A House in Space. Henry S. F. Cooper, Jr. TL789.8.U6.S5547

The hunt for zero point : inside the classified world of antigravity technology. Nick Cook. TL567.R47.C662 2002

I touch the future--: the story of Christa McAuliffe. Robert T. Hohler. TL789.85.M33.H64 1986

If the Sun Dies. Oriana Fallaci, trans. by Pamela Swinglehurst. PQ4866.A4.S413

Inside the Iron Works : how Grumman's glory days faded. George M. Skurla and William H. Gregory. TL540.S5736.G74 2004

Jerome C. Hunsaker and the Rise of American Aeronautics. William F. Trimble. TL540.H85.T75 2002

Jimmy Doolittle: daredevil aviator and scientist. Carroll V. Glines. TL540.D62.G55

Journey Beyond Selene : remarkable expeditions past our moon and to the ends of the solar system. Jeffrey Kluger. TL795.3.K58 1999

Journey to the moon: the history of the Apollo guidance computer. Eldon C. Hall. TL789.8.U6.A5383 1996

Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon. James Harford. TL789.85.K62.H37 1997

Liftoff : the story of America's adventure in space. Michael Collins ; illustrated by James Dean. TL789.8.U5.C59 1988

Light this candle: the life and times of Alan Shepard, America's first spaceman. Neal Thompson. TL789.85.S5.T49 2004

Like Sex with Gods: an Unorthodox History of Flying. Bayla Singer. TL516.S56 2003

Lindbergh. A. Scott Berg. TL540.L5.B49 1998

Lost in Space: the fall of NASA and the dream of a new space age. Greg Klerkx. TL521.312.K54 2004

A man on the moon: the voyages of the Apollo astronauts. Andrew Chaikin. TL789.8.U6.A537 1994

The Mercury 13: the untold story of thirteen American women and the dream of space flight. Martha Ackmann. TL789.85.A1.A28 2003

Mission: an American Congressman's Voyage to Space. Bill Nelson with Jamie Buckingham. TL540.N37.A3 1988

Mission to Mars. Michael Collins. TL799.M3.C65 1990

Moon lander: how we developed the Apollo lunar module. Thomas J. Kelly. TL795.K45 2001

Moon launch!: a history of the Saturn-Apollo launch operations. Charles D. Benson and William B. Faherty. TL781.5.S3.B37 2001

Moon shot: the inside story of America's race to the moon. Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. TL789.8.U6.A58177 1994

Murmurs of Earth: the Voyager interstellar record. Carl Sagan, F.D. Drake, Ann Druyan, Timothy Ferris, Jon Lomberg, Linda Salzman Sagan. TL789.8.U6.V685

New moon rising : the making of America's new space vision and the remaking of NASA. Frank Sietzen, Jr. & Keith L. Cowing. TL789.8.U5.S54 2004

The new race for space : the U.S. and Russia leap to the challenge for unlimited rewards. James E. Oberg. TL789.8.U5.O24 1984

On to Mars: Colonizing a New World. Ed. by Robert Zubrin and Frank Crossman. QB641.O5 2002

Orbit : NASA astronauts photograph the earth. Jay Apt, Michael Helfert, Justin Wilkinson ; edited by Roger Ressmeyer. TR713.A68 1996

Powering Apollo: James E. Webb of NASA. W. Henry Lambright. TL789.85.W43.L36 1995

Prescription for Disaster. Joseph J. Trento and Susan B. Trento. TL789.8.U5.T74 1987

Project Mercury: NASA's first manned space programme. John Catchpole. TL789.8.U6.M4523 2001

Project Orion : the true story of the atomic spaceship. George Dyson. TL783.5.D95 2002

The quest for Mars : the NASA scientists and their search for life beyond Earth. Laurence Bergreen. TL873.B474 2000

Reaching for the stars: the story of astronaut training and the lunar landing. Stanley H. Goldstein. TL1085.G65 1987

Reconsidering Sputnik : forty years since the Soviet satellite. Edited by Roger D. Launius, John M. Logsdon and Robert W. Smith. TL789.8.R9.R43 2000

Red Star in Orbit. James E. Oberg. TL789.8.R9.O24

The right stuff. Tom Wolfe. TL789.8.U5.W64

The right stuff : a novel .Tom Wolfe. TL789.8.U5.W64 2001

Rocket Boys: a Memoir. Homer H. Hickam, Jr. TL789.85.H53.A3 1998

Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age. David A. Clary. TL781.85.G6.C58 2003

The rocket men: Vostok & Voskhod, the first Soviet manned spaceflights. Rex Hall and David J. Shayler. TL789.8.S652.V677 2001

The rocket team. Frederick I. Ordway III, Mitchell R. Sharpe; foreword by Wernher von Braun. TL781.8.G4.O73 1979

The rockets' red glare: an illustrated history of rocketry throughout the ages. Wernher von Braun and Frederick I. Ordway III. TL781.V59

Russians in space. Evgeny Riabchikov. TL789.8.R9.R4811

Skunk Works : a personal memoir of my years at Lockheed. Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos. TL565.R53 1994

Sky as frontier : adventure, aviation, and empire. David T. Courtwright. TL515.C69 2005

Skylab: America's space station. David J.Shayler. TL789.8.U6.S567 2001

Soaring above setbacks: the autobiography of Janet Harmon Bragg, African American aviator. Marjorie M. Kriz. TL540.B693.A3 1996

The sound of wings : the life of Amelia Earhart. Mary S. Lovell. TL540.E3.L68 1989

The Soviet Space Race with Apollo. Asif A. Siddiqi. TL789.8.S65.S49 2003

Soyuz : a universal spacecraft. Rex D. Hall and David J. Shayler. TL789.8.R92.S694 2003

Space Frontier. Wernher von Braun. TL793.V6

Space stations: base camps to the stars. Roger D. Launius. TL797.L38 2003

The Space Station: a Personal Journey. Hans Mark. TL789.8.U5.M27 1987

Space volunteers. Terence Kay. TL793.K35

A Spacefaring Nation: Perspectives on American Space History and Policy. Ed. by Martin J. Collins and Sylvia D. Fries. TL789.8.U5.S63 1991

Sputnik: the shock of the century. Paul Dickson. TL796.5.S652.S664 2001

Sputnik and the Soviet space challenge. Asif A. Siddiqi. TL789.8.S65.S52 2003

The story of the space shuttle. David M. Harland. TL795.5.H363 2004

The story of transatlantic flight. David Beaty. TL531.B43 2003

Straight on till morning: a biography of Beryl Markham. Mary S. Lovell. TL540.M345.L68 1987

Supersonic flight: the story of the Bell X-1 and Douglas D-558. Richard Hallion. TL551.5.H3

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus : an incurable dreamer builds the first civilian spaceship. Elizabeth Weil. TL781.85.H83.W45 2002

Thirteen: the flight that failed. Henry S.F. Cooper, Jr. TL789.8.U6.A5313 1973

This high man; the life of Robert H. Goddard. With a pref. by Charles A. Lindbergh.Milton Lehman. TL781.85.G6.L523

To the end of the solar system : the story of the nuclear rocket. James A. Dewar. TL783.5.D48 2004

Voyager's Grand Tour: to the Outer Planets and Beyond. Henry C. Dethloff and Ronald A. Schorn. TL789.8.U6.V683 2003

Voyage to the Milky Way: the future of space exploration. Donald Goldsmith. TL788.7.G635 1999

The wind and beyond; Theodore von Kármán, pioneer in aviation and pathfinder in space. Theodore von Kármán with Lee Edson. TL540.V947.A3

Wings: a history of aviation from kites to the space age. Tom D. Crouch. TL515.C76 2003

With Courage: the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II. Bernard C. Nalty, John F. Shiner, George M. Watson; Alfred M. Beck, editor. D790.N32 1994

X-15 diary: the story of America's first space ship. Richard Tregaskis ; foreword by Scott Crossfield. TL789.8.U6.T74 2004