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Please post within this thread links to any really exceptional publications you find at the link below although from just a few minutes of looking it may be a very long list:
NASA History Division - Publications (fantastic resource)
https://history.nasa.gov/publications.html
Books
The NASA History Publications list is over 200 books, and most of them are free. The ones that are not are out of print and either have been reprinted by other publishing houses or were done as a partnership. If you see our books for sale, check here first. Many of our titles have been made available for download and are 508-compliant. To find the books themselves, please go here:
https://history.nasa.gov/books_sort_SP.html
One example, 344 pages, free book, in the "Reference Works" category:
Apollo by the Numbers (published 2000)
A Statistical Reference
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029.pdf
The purpose of this work is to provide researchers, students, and space enthusiasts with a comprehensive reference for facts about Project Apollo, America's effort to put humans on the Moon.
Research for this work started in 1988, when the author discovered that, despite the number of excellent books that focused on the drama of events that highlighted Apollo, there were none that focused on the drama of the numbers.
It may be impossible to produce the perfect Apollo fact book. For a program of the magnitude of Apollo, many NASA Centers and contractors maintained data files for each mission. As a result, the same measurements from different sources vary, sometimes significantly. In addition, there are notable errors and conflicts even within official NASA and contractor documents. In order to minimize conflicts, the author sought original documents to create this work. Some documents were previously unavailable to the public, and were released only following the author's petitions through the Freedom of Information Act.
This book is separated into two parts. The first part contains narratives for the Apollo 1 fire and the 11 flown Apollo missions. [that's kind of misleading - Apollo 1 and 7 through 17 are all covered - W] Included after each narrative is a series of data tables, followed by a comprehensive timeline of events from just before liftoff to just after crew and spacecraft recovery. The second part contains more than 50 tables. These tables organize much of the data from the narratives in one place so they can be compared among all missions. The tables offer additional data as well. The reader can select a specific mission narrative or specific data table by consulting the Table of Contents.
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029.pdf
Another gem, 393 pages, free book:
Beyond Earth - A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration - 1958 - 2016
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/beyond-earth-tagged.pdf
Also in Kindle and ePub formats (I greatly prefer PDFs):
https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/beyond_earth_detail.html
NASA History Division - Publications (fantastic resource)
https://history.nasa.gov/publications.html
Books
The NASA History Publications list is over 200 books, and most of them are free. The ones that are not are out of print and either have been reprinted by other publishing houses or were done as a partnership. If you see our books for sale, check here first. Many of our titles have been made available for download and are 508-compliant. To find the books themselves, please go here:
https://history.nasa.gov/books_sort_SP.html
One example, 344 pages, free book, in the "Reference Works" category:
Apollo by the Numbers (published 2000)
A Statistical Reference
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029.pdf
The purpose of this work is to provide researchers, students, and space enthusiasts with a comprehensive reference for facts about Project Apollo, America's effort to put humans on the Moon.
Research for this work started in 1988, when the author discovered that, despite the number of excellent books that focused on the drama of events that highlighted Apollo, there were none that focused on the drama of the numbers.
It may be impossible to produce the perfect Apollo fact book. For a program of the magnitude of Apollo, many NASA Centers and contractors maintained data files for each mission. As a result, the same measurements from different sources vary, sometimes significantly. In addition, there are notable errors and conflicts even within official NASA and contractor documents. In order to minimize conflicts, the author sought original documents to create this work. Some documents were previously unavailable to the public, and were released only following the author's petitions through the Freedom of Information Act.
This book is separated into two parts. The first part contains narratives for the Apollo 1 fire and the 11 flown Apollo missions. [that's kind of misleading - Apollo 1 and 7 through 17 are all covered - W] Included after each narrative is a series of data tables, followed by a comprehensive timeline of events from just before liftoff to just after crew and spacecraft recovery. The second part contains more than 50 tables. These tables organize much of the data from the narratives in one place so they can be compared among all missions. The tables offer additional data as well. The reader can select a specific mission narrative or specific data table by consulting the Table of Contents.
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029.pdf
Another gem, 393 pages, free book:
Beyond Earth - A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration - 1958 - 2016
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/beyond-earth-tagged.pdf
Also in Kindle and ePub formats (I greatly prefer PDFs):
https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/beyond_earth_detail.html
