If you really want to get into the nitty-gritty
details of spaceflight, you will love these compilations of documents
and multi-media about various space programs. They are perfect
for space history buffs and students and can also serve as useful
references for managers and engineers working on current space
projects.
NASA Mission Reports by Robert Godwin of
Apogee Books describe
in detail the important missions of the space race. Each NASA
Mission Report gives a narrative account of the mission and includes
many technical background information. The accompanying CD-ROM
provides videos, photographs, and other archived materials about
the mission.
The World
Spaceflight News compilations bring together technical
documents and multimedia on a given space project or technology.
They are presented in either CD-ROMs or
ring-binders.
The WSN compilations include materials typically
only available to the engineers, technicians and astronauts actually
who worked on the projects or to those with access to NASA archives.
The materials include such items as training manuals & workbooks,
study reports, hardware references, schematics, diagrams, illustrations
and many, many photos.
The compilations provide an unfiltered view onto
the systems of hardware, software and organization for space projects
from the Moon race up to the present International Space Station.
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History Books on BookLists page 1.
