Book List of Recommended Reading Materials
compiled for the Space Symposium by David Fisher
*Asterisked items are available at Snowden Library, Lycoming College.
**On reserve at Snowden - click link for full record and availability.
+Plus-marked items are available at the James V. Brown public library.
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Books written by astronauts and cosmonauts detailing their life stories and flights into space |
Of these, Alan Shepard, John H. Glenn, Jr., M. Scott Carpenter, Walter M. Schirra, and L. Gordon Cooper, and Donald K. “Deke” Slayton were original Mercury astronauts; Alan Bean, Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, Charles Duke, and Eugene Cernan were Apollo astronauts who walked on the Moon; Donald K. Slayton and Thomas P. Stafford flew jointly with cosmonauts on the Apollo Soyuz Test Project, and Valentin Lebedev was a cosmonaut who kept a detailed diary of prolonged life aboard a Soviet Salyut space station.
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Liftoff: the Story of America's Adventure in Space, by Michael Collins; illustrated by James Dean. New York: Grove Press, 1988.**
Moon Shot: the Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon, by Alan Shepard and Donald K. (Deke) Slayton with Jay Barbree and Howard Benedict. Atlanta: Turner Pub., 1994.Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury To The Shuttle, by Donald K. Slayton with Michael Cassutt. New York: Forge, 1994.
+John Glenn: A Memoir, by John Glenn with Nick Taylor. New York: Barton Books, 1999.
+Apollo: An Eyewitness Account By Astronaut/Explorer Artist/Moonwalker Alan Bean, by Alan Bean with Andrew Chaiken. Shelton, CT: The Greenwich Workshop Press, 1998.
+Leap of Faith: An Astronaut’s Journey into the Unknown, by Leroy Gordon Cooper with Bruce Henderson. New York: Harper Collins, 2000.
+The Last Man On The Moon, by Eugene Cernan and Don Davis. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
+The Way of the Explorer, by Dr. Edgar Mitchell with Dwight Williams. New York: Putnam & Sons, 1996.
+For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey Of A Mercury Astronaut, by Scott Carpenter and Kris Stoever. Orlando: Harcourt Inc., 2002.
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, by Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1994.
Moonwalker, by Charles & Dottie Duke. Nashville: Over Nelson, 1990.
We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race, by Thomas P. Stafford with Michael Cassutt. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002.
Schirra’s Space, by Walter M. Schirra, Jr. with Richard N. Billings. Boston: Quinlan Press, 1988.
Diary of a Cosmonaut: 211 Days in Space, by Valentin Lebedev. Bantam Air & Space Series. New York: Bantam Books, 1983.
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Books written about the Space Flight Experience or Historic Individuals |
**Apollo 7 : the NASA Mission Reports, compiled from the NASA archives & edited by Robert Godwin. Burlington, Ont.: Apogee Books, 2000.
**Apollo
8 : the NASA Mission Reports,
compiled from the NASA archives & edited by Robert Godwin. Burlington, Ont.: Apogee Books, 2000.
**Apollo
9 : the NASA Mission Reports,
compiled from the NASA archives & edited by Robert Godwin. Burlington, Ont.: Apogee Books, 1990-.
**Apollo 10 : the NASA Mission Reports, compiled from the NASA archives & edited by Robert Godwin. Burlington, Ont.: Apogee Books, 2000.
**Friendship 7: the First Flight of John Glenn: the NASA Mission Reports, compiled from the NASA archives & edited by Robert Godwin. Burlington, Ont.: Apogee Books, 1999.
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The Continuing Story of the International Space Station, by Peter Bond. New York: Springer, 2002.**
Project Mercury : NASA's First Manned Space Programme, by John Catchpole. New York: Springer, 2001.**
The Voyages of Apollo: the Exploration of the Moon, by Richard S. Lewis. New York: Quadrangle, 1974.*+Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8, The First Manned Flight To Another World, by Robert Zimmerman. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1998.
+Living In Space, by G. Harry Stine. New York: Evans and Co., 1997.
Glenn: The Astronaut Who Would Be President, by Frank Van Riper. New York: Empire Books, 1983.
Survival in Space: Medical Problems of Manned Spaceflight, by Richard Harding. London: Routledge, 1989.
Korolev, by James Harford. New York: Wiley & Sons, 1997.
Russians in Space, by Evgeny Riabchikov. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971.
Asteroid Rendezvous: NEAR Shoemaker's Adventures at
Eros, by Jim Bell and Jacqueline Mitton. London: Cambridge, 2002.
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Academic Works on Space Flight History |
**The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1979.
*USA In Space Vol. 1-3, Edited by Russell R. Tobias. Pasadena: Salem Press, 2001.
*A Man On The Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts, by Andrew Chaiken. New York: Viking Press, 1994.
Apollo: the Lost and Forgotten Missions, by David J. Shayler. London: Springer/Praxis, 2002.
Leaving Earth: Space Stations, Rival Superpowers, and the Quest for Interplanetary Travel, by Robert Zimmerman. Joseph Henry Press, 2003.
Mission to Mars: Plans and Concepts for the First Manned Landing, by James Oberg. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1982.
The Book of Mars (NASA SP-179), by Samuel Glasstone. Washington, D.C.: Office of Technical Utilization, 1968.
Red Star in Orbit, James E. Oberg. New York: Random House, 1981.
The Sputnik Challenge: Eisenhower’s Response to the Soviet Satellite, by Robert A. Divine. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Soviet Conquest of Space, by Peter N. James. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1974.
Almanac of Soviet Manned Space Flight, by Dennis Newkirk. Houston: Gulf, 1990.
MacGill’s Survey of Science, Space Exploration Series, Volumes 1-5. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1989.
Women Astronauts, by Laura S. Woodmansee. Toronto: Apogee Books, 2002.
| Books written by people who have had a long career with NASA, working on either manned or unmanned space projects |
*Journey Into Space, by Bruce Murray. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1989.
Failure Is Not An Option: Mission Control From Mercury To Apollo 13 And Beyond, by Gene Kranz. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
| Aerospace Topics |
The X-1 first broke the sound barrier while piloted by Chuck Yeager. The X-15 remains the fastest piloted aircraft ever flown. The recommended book on the subject was written by one of the program’s renowned research pilots.
**On the Shoulders of Titans: a History of Project Gemini, by Barton C. Hacker and James M. Grimwood. Washington: Scientific and Technical Information Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1977.
*+Yeager: An Autobiography, by General Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos. New York: Bantam Books, 1985.
*At The Edge of Space: The X-15 Flight Program, by Milton O. Thompson. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.
*Into the Unknown: The X-1 Story, by Louis Rotundo. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.
Flight: 100 years of aviation,
by R. G. Grant. Washington, D.C.: Dorling Kindersley/Smithsonian, 2002.
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Astronomy and Cosmology |
**Bubbles, Voids, and Bumps in Time: the New Cosmology, edited by James Cornell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
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The Shadows of Creation: Dark Matter and the Structure of the Universe, by Michael Riordan and David N. Schramm. New York: W.H. Freeman and Co., 1991.**The Left Hand of Creation: the Origin and Evolution of the Expanding Universe, by John D. Barrow and Joseph Silk.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993 (c1983).**
Stars, Their Birth, Life, and Death, by Iosif S. Shklovskii; translated by Richard B. Rodman.**
Darwin's Universe: Origins and Crises in the History of Life, by Charles R. Pellegrino and Jesse A. Stoff. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1983.**The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space, by Gerard K. O'Neill ; with contributions by David P. Gump ... [et al.]. Burlington, Ont.: Apogee Books, 2000.
**The Planet Neptune, by Patrick Moore. New York: Halsted Press, 1988.
**Venus, an Errant Twin, by Eric Burgess. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.
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Pluto and Charon: Ice Worlds on the Ragged Edge of the Solar System, by Alan Stern and Jacqueline Mitton. New York: Wiley, 1998.The Infinite Journey, by William E. Burrows. New York: Discovery Books, 2000.
The Restless Universe: Understanding X-ray Astronomy in the Age of Chandra and Newton, by Eric M. Schlegel. London: Oxford, 2002.
The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Cosmos, by Robert P. Kibshner. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Press, 2002.
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Robin's Picks on Cosmology and More |
Marcia Bartusiak
1993 Through a Universe Darkly: A Cosmic Tale of Ancient Ethers, Dark Matter, and the Fate of the Universe. New York: Harper Collins.
Albert Einstein
1924 Principle of Relativity.
1956 The Meaning of Relativity.
1988 Ideas and Opinions.
1993 World as I See It.
1995 Relativity: The Special and the General Theory.
Mircea Eliade
1959 Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return.
Sylvia Louise Engdahl
Children of the Star.
Owen Gingerich
1992 The Great Copernicus Chase.
1993 The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler - Masters of Modern Physics.
Adolf Grunbaum
1973 Philosophical Problems of Space and Time. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, v. 12.
Stephen Hawking
1988 A Brief History of Time.
2001 The Universe in a Nutshell.
2002 The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe.
Donald E. Simanek and John C. Holden
2002 Science Askew. Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Publishing.
Steven Weinberg
1977 The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe. New York: Bantam.
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