 NASA’s Origins and the Dawn of the Space Age:
Monograph in Aerospace History No. 10
This monograph, for a general audience, presents the origins of the Space Age, the creation of NASA and the first tentative steps toward an operational capability to undertake space exploration. |
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 The Legislative Origins of NASA:
Proceedings of an Oral History Workshop-Monograph in Aerospace History No. 8
The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 was a tangible result of national unification that accomplished one fundamental objective: it ensured that outer space would be a dependable, orderly place for beneficial pursuits. |
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 Looking Backward, Looking Forward:
Forty Years of U.S. Human Spaceflight Symposium
This short book is the formal proceedings of a conference that was held to mark the 40th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first human space flight, the 40th anniversary of Alan Shepard's first U.S. human space flight, and the 20th anniversary of the first Space Shuttle flight. |
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 America in Space:
NASA launches a yearlong celebration of its 50th anniversary in the fall of 2007, and Abrams is privileged to publish this visual history of NASA's many achievements in manned and unmanned space travel. Written and edited by a team of experienced NASA staffers, and illustrated with many unpublished and rare photographs from the voluminous NASA archives, America in Space offers an unparalleled vision of half a century of exploration and discovery. |
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 NASA History Fact Sheet:
A broad overview of NASA's origins and accomplishments during the last half-century.
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 Defining events for NASA:
A selective chronological listing of over 100 key events across the spectrum of NASA's activities in science and technology. |
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 NASA History Web Site:
Founded shortly after NASA itself, the NASA History Division serves two key functions: fulfilling the mandate of the 1958 "Space Act" calling for NASA to disseminate aerospace information as widely as possible, and helping NASA managers understand and thus benefit from the study of past accomplishments and difficulties. |
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 Apollo Lunar Surface Journal:
The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal is a record of the lunar surface operations conducted by the six pairs of astronauts who landed on the Moon from 1969 through 1972. The Journal is intended as a resource for anyone wanting to know what happened during the missions and why. It includes annotated transcripts of all recorded conversations between the lunar surface crews and Houston. The Journal also contains extensive, interwoven commentary by the Editor and by ten of the twelve moonwalking astronauts. |
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 Centennial of Flight:
A national commission was established to mark the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight in 1903. This encyclopedic site of the commission contains a wealth of information about not only NASA history, but also U.S. and international aerospace history. |
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 Celebrating a Century of Flight:
This 32-page illustrated magazine that was prepared for the centennial of flight in 2003 is an excellent summary of aerospace history writ large. |
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