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Quest: the History of Spaceflight Quarterly Quest: The History of Spaceflight Bibliography – By Issue EDITOR: Glen Swanson Volume 2 #1 Volume 1 #1 Rocket Men in Their Rocket Ships: The Astronauts and Their Corvettes V-2 Ventures: A Look at Early U.S. Testing of NASA's Hot Rods: Souped-up Coupes Served Role the Infamous German Rocket in space race Salute to Salyut: A History of Soviet Space They Might Be Giants: A History of Project Nova Station Programs 1959-1964 Part II From the Sea to the Stars: New Air & Space Two Decades Later, Another Handshake in Space Museum Opens in Virginia New Apollo/Saturn V Museum to be built at KSC More Russian Right Stuff: Commonwealth of Independent States Leaders Create New Space Diamant A and the First French Satellite Pgm Nancy Yasecko on "Growing Up with Rockets" The Minsk Agreement on Joint Activity in Space The Navaho XSM-94 Missile Research and Exploration Getting a Piece of the Rock: NASA's Lunar Volume 2 #2 Sample Education Program They Might Be Giants: A History of Project Nova 1959-1964 Part III Volume 1 #2 The Russian Space Support Fleet--A Sad End Spaceport Michigan: When Rockets Flew from The Lockheed CL-635 the Great Lakes State Mothballed Potential: Energia & Buran The 'Meatball' Is Back! A Look at the Origins of A Pioneer of Space: Georgi Grechko's Story NASA Insignias and Crew Patches All Suited Up and No Place to Go: Soviet Lunar Russian Lifeboats for Space Station Freedom? EVA Suit More Data on the Soviet Manned Lunar Program Volume 1 #3 U.S. and Soviet Manned Lunar Landing Projects Crashing Success: An Overview of Project Scuds for Science: The V-11-A Ranger Unique Atlas-Agena Configurations They Might Be Giants: A History of Project NOVA 1959-1964 Part I Volume 2 #3 START: Forging Some Swords into Plowshares Land Landings for Gemini: NASA's Paraglider Space Center Houston Program Sputnik: The Shot Heard Around the World The 1963 Soviet Space Platform Project More on the 'Meatball' The Right Stuff, The Wrong Story: A "Hollywood Life, the Universe and CD-ROMS History" Blurs the Truth Behind America's Second Top Secret Titan and Atlas Revealed Manned Spaceflight Semyorka Family Values Volume 1 #4 The Hunt for Liberty Bell 7 From Heaven to Hell: The Pioneer Venus Story Air-Launched Sounding Rocket, The Anonymous The Soviet Manned Lunar Program Revealed, Atlas H. The Soviet Manned Circumlunar Program The N-1 and the Soviet Manned Lunar Landing Volume 2 #4 Program A Survey of Surveyor: A Look Back at America's Chelomei's Alternative Manned Lunar Program Robotic Lunar Landing Program The Problem of Re-entry and the X-17 Money Talks in Russia Titan III & IV Mercury Atlas 10: A Mission Not Flown Dennis Jenkins Interview: The Past, Present and The Russian Space Auction at Sothebys in NY Future of the Space Shuttle Program The Viking Rocket: Filling the Gap Destination Moon: U.S. and Soviet Manned Soviet Manned Lunar Programs Lunar Hardware Compared Bye, Bye, Buran: Soviet Shuttle Made into Amusement Park Ride -1- Volume 3 #1 E Pluribus Unum: Apollo 13 and American Unity The X-15 Spaceplane The Rockets of GIRD X-15 Flight Log Is It Now Possible to Attempt a Voyage from The Test Pilot Elite: An interview with Milt Earth to the Moon? by Luigi Gussalli Thompson The X-15 Experience: Milt Thompson Talks Volume 4 #2 about Flying the X-15 CORONA: America's First Spy Satellite (Part I) In Search of X-15 U.S. Reconnaissance Satellite Program Part I: Thirtysomething Vostok... Imaging Satellites A History of Air-Launched Space Vehicles Mercury 7 Monument Three Saturn Vs: A Look at the Remaining Saturn "Freddo" An Interview with Apollo 13 Astronaut V Hardware Fred Haise Poland's Meteor Sounding Rockets Letters, Quarter Centuries, Rockets Red Glare The NOTSNIK Program: The Top-Secret Air- Thor-Able: America's First Moon Rocket Launched Satellite Attempts of 1958 Volume 4 #3 Volume 3 #2-3 CORONA: America's First Spy Satellite (Part 2) Apollo 11 at 25 A History of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory "It's Time to Go" A Salute to Apollo (MOL) Part 1 Spider Talk: Builders of the LM Reunite for 25th The Soviet Legacy of the V-2 Anniversary "Houston, We Have a Problem": A Nitpicker's Project Apollo Bibliography of Books Guide to APOLLO 13 the Movie A Race to the Moon: The Flight of Luna 15 A Piece of the Action: An Exhibit on the Making of Moon Shooter: An Interview with Alan Shepard APOLLO 13 Atlas Shrugged: Future of Historic Monument Up Mighty Moon Machine Hits the Big Screen: in the Air Modeling the Saturn V for the Movies The German Space Pioneers: An Interview with The Real Thing: Original Apollo 13 hardware on Marsha Freeman display Project Adam: The Army's Man in Space Program. Volume 4 #4 Moon Men: An Interview with Andrew Chaikin The Origin of the Rocket-Propelled Spaceship author of "A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of An Illustrated Chronology of the First Experiments the Apollo Astronauts" in Space Rocketry Footprints on the Moon: An Interview with Rockets Red Glare: From Bird Watch Hill Charlie Duke Preserving Moon Rocks Celebrating Apollo at Home: A Look at the Apollo's Top Ten Discoveries Various Model Kits Produced of the Saturn V Viewing Moon Rocks The Secret Life of the Redstone Missile Dusting Off the Moon Machines Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) Part 2 Volume 3 #4 Interagency Rivalry: NASA, The Air Force & MOL Why the X-20 Program was Proposed American Reconnaissance Satellites Part 2: Beyond A Historical Overview of the X-20 Dyna-Soar Imaging The X-20 Pilots, The X-20 Hardware and Technology Volume 5 #1 In the Hot Seat: The X-20 Cockpit A History of the Project Galileo Part 1 The X-20 Pressure Suit EPCOT, NASA, and Plant Pathogens in Space Why the X-20 Program was Canceled STS-72 Mission Overview Mourning Star: The Nedelin Disaster STS-75 Mission Overview Dyna-Soar and the Development of the Titan III From Pencils to Planets Launch Vehicle Titan IV Launch Reviews 30th Anniversary of the World's First "Prox Ops" Volume 4 #1 Interview with Jim Lovell Houston, We've Had A Problem (The Mission of Apollo 13) Lost Moon-Found Earth (Jim Lovell Interview) Down to Earth: Apollo 13 from the CapCom's Chair (Jack Lousma Interview) -2- Volume 5 #2 Alan B. Shepard Interview The Past Revisited: An Unpublished Account Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center Goddard's Pump-fed Rockets Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) Part 3 Volume 6 #3 David Lasser: Spaceflight Visionary Soyuz-1 Revisited: From Myth to Reality STS-76 Mission Overview "Not Too Wild a Dream": NASA and the Quest for STS-77 Mission Overview Life in the Solar System Life Without Dad: An Interview w/Scott Grissom The Early Years of the Molniya Program Clusters Last Stand: The Saturn 1 The Icarus Paradox: Air Force Doctrine and Space Technology Volume 5 #3 U.S. Spacecraft Nuclear Power Systems: Past, STS-78 Mission Overview Present and Future STS-79 Mission Overview Richard Nygren Oral History Interview Shannon Lucid's 188 Days in Space European Space Agency Archives The Triumph and Tragedy of Salyut 1 Salyut 1 Experiments Volume 6 #4 China's Ancient Rockets Walter Orr Roberts & the Development of "There It Is!" An Account of the First Dog's-in- Boulder's Aerospace Community Space A Hare Turned Tortoise: 40 Years of UK Space Mission Impossible: The Kidnapping of Lunik 5 Why "Apollo 1?" Numbering of Apollo Missions The Hybrid Saturn: Saturn IB Yuri Kondratyuk: Stolen Past, Stolen Future? Watch the Skies (Chat with the Author) Volume 5 #4 GPS & Beyond: How the Aviation Industry is Apollo One: A Memorial Ceremony Advancing the Usefulness of GPS Tracing Apollo One: A Spacecraft Chronology James Alton McDivitt Oral History Review Skylab B Unflown Missions, Lost Opportunities The Titan Missile Museum The Excluded: Hermann Oberth and Rudolf Nebel Volume 7 #1 The Greatest Story on Planet Mars Missile Defense Alarm: The Genesis of Space- Time Stood Still After Delta II Explosion based Infrared Early Warning Eight Eyes on Hubble The French Diamant Rockets New & Improved Titan Launches CORONA: A Program Profile Titan II: Sword and Plowshare Marlowe Cassetti Editor: Dr. Stephen Johnson Exhibiting the Space Race -- The Newseum Exhibit Volume 6 #1 Soyuz-Based Manned Reconnaissance Spacecraft Volume 7 #2 The Evolution of Large Solid Propellant Rocketry Multiple Means to an End: A Reexamination of in the United States President Kennedy's Decision to Go to the Moon Buzz Aldrin's Return to Earth: The Astronaut and Revisiting the Challenger Social Values in Apollo-Era America Mars-69: The Forgotten Mission to the Red Planet The Curious Case of Draco and the "Secret" Cape Securing the High Ground: The Army's Quest for Canaveral Launches of 1959 the Moon Interview with Martin Caidin; Air Force Space Titan II: Research and Development, Part II Command History Office Archives An interview with Guenter Wendt U.S. Space and Rocket Center Archives Volume 6 #2 Godspeed and War Eagle: Auburn University's Volume 7 #3 Astronautical History Back Down to Earth: A Look Back at Space During Craft or System? The Development of Systems the Carter Administration Engineering at JPL U.S-Soviet/Russian Cosmos Biosatellite Program Before the Fire: NASA's Plans for Apollo Program 437: Thor's Hammer Strikes, Part I Development of China's Recoverable Satellites Titan II: Space Launch Vehicle Program, Part III A Falling Star: SAINT, America's First Anti- Oral History Interview: Tasillo Romisch satellite System JPL Archives: Preserving the History of JPL Training for Lunar Landing: LLRV and LLTV The Johnson Space Center Oral History Project -3- Volume 7 #4 External Tank Applications: A Brief Overview and Pathfinding the Rings: The Pioneer Saturn Current Status Report Trajectory Decision Brief History of the Atlas Rocket Vehicle, Part III Liberty Bell 7, This is Hunt Club 1 An Interview with Charles “Pete” Conrad, Jr.
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