# Awesome Space Books [![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books)
A list of space exploration resources (born at https://space.meta.stackexchange.com/q/249 before the unfortunate politicization and general ~~decline~~ collapse of the SE network).

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This list includes links/citations for books and other resources that are deemed classical in the field of space exploration. Many of the books are offline, try to contact your nearest library to arrange an [ILL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlibrary_loan). If you want 'lighter' reading online while waiting for the books to arrive, go to Winchell Chung's  [Atomic Rockets](http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/) site.

## License
[Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)

## Contributors
[The full list of contributors at Space Exploration StackExchange](https://space.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/250/revisions)

[Guidelines](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/StBenedict) (h/t to D.Richard Hipp)

## GitHub lists on space sciences and technology

* [awesome-space](https://github.com/elburz/awesome-space) - links to online resources.
* [aero-structures](https://github.com/specifics/aero-structures) - some useful aerospace engineering links.

## Table of contents

- [Reference books](#reference-books)
- [Manned exploration references](#manned-exploration-references)
- [Model and amateur rocketry](#model-and-amateur-rocketry)
- [Journals](#journals)
- [History books and collections](#history-books-and-collections)
- [Nonfiction and activity space books for children](#nonfiction-and-activity-space-books-for-children)
- [Interdisciplinary books](#interdisciplinary-books)
- [Miscellaneous](#miscellaneous)
- [The list of (historical and current) launch vehicle user manuals](#the-list-of-historical-and-current-launch-vehicle-user-manuals)
- [Where to look for other awesome lists](#where-to-look-for-other-awesome-lists)

## Reference books

### Mission analysis and design. Project management

* **Space Mission Analysis and Design**. W. J. Larson and J. R. Wertz (Editors). Microcosm Press, 1999. ISBN [9780792359012](http://www.worldcat.org/title/space-mission-analysis-and-design/oclc/42703668&referer=brief_results)
* **Space Mission Engineering: The New SMAD**. James R. Wertz (Editor).
* **Space Systems Failures**. Harland, Shayler, Lorenz. 2005. ISBN [9780387215198](https://www.worldcat.org/title/space-systems-failures-diesasters-and-rescues-of-satellites-rocket-and-space-probes/oclc/226200132)
* **Orbit and Constellation Design and Management**. J.R. Wertz. Microcosm, 2001. ISBN [9781881883074](https://www.worldcat.org/title/orbit-constellation-design-management-spacecraft-orbit-and-attitude-systems/oclc/792963766)
* **Deep Space Flight and Communications: Exploiting the Sun as a Gravitational Lens**. Claudio Maccone. Springer, 2009. ISBN [9783540729426](https://www.worldcat.org/title/deep-space-flight-and-communications-exploiting-the-sun-as-a-gravitational-lens/oclc/370736749)
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) An old and unmaintained version of [NASA Cost Estimation web site](https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/bu2/index.html)
   * There's also _Handbook of Cost Engineering and Design of Space Transportation_ (Koelle, 2013). Please take NASA's experience with a grain of salt, though (Faster, better, cheaper - right?).

#### Incident and accident investigation reports

![NOAA N' mishap](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/raw/master/badges/noaa1.jpg)

[⇈ This ⇈ is what happens](http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/65776main_noaa_np_mishap.pdf) when you don't read the books.

... and also this:

* [Space Shuttle Columbia](https://history.nasa.gov/columbia/CAIB_reportindex.html)
* [Apollo 13](https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700076776.pdf)
* [Space Shuttle Challenger (Rogers Commission Report)](https://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/genindex.htm)
* [Genesis mission mishap report](https://web.archive.org/web/20060703141406/http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/149414main_Genesis_MIB.pdf)
* [Mars Climate Orbiter](http://sunnyday.mit.edu/accidents/MCO_report.pdf)
* Apollo 1:
    * [NASA Commission Report](https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Apollo204/content.html)
    * [Senate Commission Report](https://web.archive.org/web/20141220043317/http://klabs.org/richcontent/Reports/Failure_Reports/as-204/senate_956/as204_senate_956.pdf)

* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png)  Fault Tree Handbook with Aerospace Applications. Vesely et al., 2002. Wayback version is [here](https://web.archive.org/web/20170121001532/https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codeq/doctree/fthb.pdf)

### Ballistics, dynamics, and control

* **Space Vehicle Dynamics and Control**. Bong Wie. AIAA, 1998. ISBN [9781615830442](https://www.worldcat.org/title/space-vehicle-dynamics-and-control/oclc/435623651)
* **Modeling and Simulation of Aerospace Vehicle Dynamics**. (2nd ed.). Peter H. Zipfel. AIAA, 2007 ISBN [9781601195395](https://www.worldcat.org/title/modeling-and-simulation-of-aerospace-vehicle-dynamics/oclc/223986238)
* **Flexible spacecraft dynamics, control and guidance (technologies by Giovanni Campolo)**. Leonardo Mazzini. Springer, 2016. ISBN [9783319255385](https://www.worldcat.org/title/flexible-spacecraft-dynamics-control-and-guidance-technologies-by-giovanni-campolo/oclc/953815665)
* **Statistical Orbit Determination**. B.D. Tapley, B.E. Schutz, G.H. Born. New York, Elsevier, 2004. ISBN [9780080541730](https://www.worldcat.org/title/statistical-orbit-determination/oclc/162577113)
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) **Spacetrack Report Number 3**. Hoots, Roehrich. The foundational work on General Perturbations theory used in the SGP4 propagator for TLE (Two Line Element) data. [Free PDF](https://celestrak.com/NORAD/documentation/spacetrk.pdf)
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) **Dynamical Systems, the Three-Body Problem and Space Mission Design**, Koon, Lo, Marsden & Ross, 2006. [Free PDF form Caltech][3]
* **Libration Point Orbits and Applications.** J.Masdemont. 2003.
* **Fundamentals of Kalman Filtering: A Practical Approach.** Paul Zarchan, Howard Musoff, Frank K. Lu. (3rd ed.) AIAA, 2009.
ISBN [9781600867200](https://www.worldcat.org/title/fundamentals-of-kalman-filtering-a-practical-approach-third-edition/oclc/884705084)
* **Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students**. Howard Curtis, 2005. ISBN [0080470548](https://www.worldcat.org/title/orbital-mechanics-for-engineering-students/oclc/124074527)
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) **LEO on the Cheap: Methods for Achieving Drastic Reductions in Space Launch Costs**. John R. London III, Lt Col, USAF. Research Report No. AU-ARI-93-8, Air University Press, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, October 1994. Available [here](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/LEOonthecheap.pdf).

### Propulsion

* **Modern Engineering for Design of Liquid-Propellant Rocket Engines**. Dieter K. Huzel and David H. Huang. [AIAA, 1992](https://www.worldcat.org/title/modern-engineering-for-design-of-liquid-propellant-rocket-engines-volume-147/oclc/669758825).
* **Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion**. P. Hill, C. Peterson. Addison-Wesley, 1992
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) **Rocket Propulsion Elements, 7th Ed.**. G.P. Sutton & O. Biblarz. John Wiley & Sons, 2001 [Free PDF from MIT][2]  
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) **Liquid rocket combustion instability**. NASA, 1972. SP-194. Harrje D.T., Reardon F.H. [Free PDF from NTRS via WebArchive](https://web.archive.org/web/20150217080058/https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19720026079.pdf)
* **Liquid rocket engine combustion instability**. Progress in Aeronautics and Astronautics, vol. 169. AIAA; 1995. Yang V., Anderson W. (eds.)
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) **Fundamentals of Electric Propulsion: Ion and Hall Thrusters**.  Dan M. Goebel, Ira Katz. [Free PDF from NASA](http://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/SciTechBook/series1/Goebel__cmprsd_opt.pdf)
* ![Online (mostly)](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) [An Introduction to Rocket Missile Propulsion](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015002938747&view=1up&seq=7) Rocketdyne Technical Training publication that covers basic rocket equations in a simplified manner. 'Annoying page-at-a-time viewer but a valuable resource.'
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) [**Glossary of Terms Used in Chemical Propulsion Systems**](https://web.archive.org/web/20170504115637/https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19800008876.pdf) Defines most commonly used words used in discussing chemical rocket systems. (Link changed to Wayback version for safety against possible NTRS purges)


### Thermal control

* **Spacecraft Thermal Control Handbook: Vol.1 Fundamental Technologies**. David G. Gilmore (ed.) AIAA, 2002. ISBN [9781884989117](https://www.worldcat.org/title/spacecraft-thermal-control-handbook-vol-1-fundamental-technologies/oclc/254064653)

### Communications

* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) **Deep Space Optical Communications**. Ed.by Hamid Hemmati. JPL, 2005. [Available online at JPL](http://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/monograph/series7/Descanso_7_Full_Version+.pdf)
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) **Deep Space Telecommunications Systems Engineering**. Joseph H. Yuen (Ed.), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 1982, (JPL Publication 82-76) Available [here](http://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/dstse/DSTSE.pdf)
<!-- * Tools of Radio Astronomy. Thomas L. Wilson, Kristen Rohlfs, Susanne Huettemeister. Springer, 2009. -->

### Scientific payloads

* **Principles of Space Instrument Design**.  	A. M. Cruise, T. J. Patrick, J. A. Bowles, C. V. Goodall. Cambridge Univ.Press, 1998. ISBN 9780521451642.

### External risks

* **Space Debris: Models and Risk Analysis**. Heinrich Klinkrad. 2006. ISBN [ 	9783540376743](https://www.worldcat.org/title/space-debris-models-and-risk-analysis/oclc/262691812)
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) **Handbook for limiting orbital debris**. NASA, 2008 (expired in 2013). Still [Online](https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codeq/doctree/NHBK871914.pdf).
* **Spacecraft-Environment Interactions**. Daniel Hastings & Henry Garrett. Cambridge Univ.Press, 1996. ISBN [9780521471282](https://www.worldcat.org/title/spacecraft-environment-interactions/oclc/33405338)
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) COSPAR [**Planetary Protection Policy**](https://cosparhq.cnes.fr/sites/default/files/ppp_article_linked_to_ppp_webpage.pdf)

### Reentry

* **Hypersonic aerothermodynamics**. John J. Bertin. AIAA, 1994. ISBN [9781601191984](https://www.worldcat.org/title/hypersonic-aerothermodynamics/oclc/123537628)
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) **Coming Home: Reentry and Recovery from Space**. Roger D. Launius, Dennis R. Jenkins, NASA [Free download in EPUB / MOBI / PDF formats via NASA e-Books page][1]
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) **Introduction to Astrodynamic Reentry**. Lt.-Col. Kerry D. Hicks, 2009. ([Free PDF online](https://web.archive.org/web/20151018055009/http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a505342.pdf)).

### Operations

* **Spacecraft Operations**. Thomas Uhlig, Florian Sellmaier, Michael Schmidhuber. Springer, 2014. ISBN [9783709118023](https://www.worldcat.org/title/spacecraft-operations/oclc/889584467)
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) **Safety Standard for Oxygen and Oxygen Systems**. NASA, 1996. Available in [pdf](https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19960021046.pdf) (CAUTION: NTRS - files are prone to disappearance - use Wayback Machine if 404'ed).

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## Manned exploration references

* **Human spaceflight : mission analysis and design**. Wiley J. Larson; Linda K. Pranke. McGraw-Hill, 2000.
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) **[Human integration design handbook](http://ston.jsc.nasa.gov/collections/TRS/_techrep/SP-2010-3407REV1.pdf)** NASA, 2010.
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) **[NASA STD-3001 Vol.1 Crew Health](https://standards.nasa.gov/documents/viewdoc/3315622/3315622)** as of 2014-07-30
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) **[NASA STD-3001 Vol.2 Human Factors, Habitability and Environmental Health](https://standards.nasa.gov/documents/viewdoc/3315785/3315785)** as of 2011-01-10
* **Space Psychology and Psychiatry**. Nick Kanas, Dietrich Manzey. Springer/Microcosm. 2008.
* **Fundamentals of Space Medicine**.  Gilles Clément.Springer, 2005.
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) [**NASA Human-rating standards**](http://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/npg_img/N_PR_8705_002B_/N_PR_8705_002B_.pdf) (2012 revision, valid through 2016).
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) [Space Settlements - a design study](http://www.xmission.com/~sferrin/SP-413_Space_Settlements_-_A_Design_Study.pdf) (1977).
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) [NASA Johnson Space Center Flight Data File page](https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/news/flightdatafiles/index.html): Links to .pdf copies of Shuttle and Station crew procedures and training manuals.
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) [**The ISS: Operating an Outpost in the New Frontier**](https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/iss-operating_an_outpost-tagged.pdf): Contains good descriptions and schematics of ISS systems, as well as descriptions of ISS operations and training. Written from a flight control viewpoint.

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## Model and amateur rocketry

* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) **How to Design, Build and Test Small Liquid-Fueled Rocket Engines**, Leroy J. Krzycki, Rocketlab / China Lake, CA., 1967 [Online source][4]


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## Journals

* *[AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics](http://arc.aiaa.org/loi/jgcd)*
* *[AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets](http://arc.aiaa.org/loi/jsr)*
* *[Icarus](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00191035)*
* *[Journal of the Astronautical Sciences](http://link.springer.com/journal/40295)*
* *[Planetary and Space Science](http://www.journals.elsevier.com/planetary-and-space-science/)*
* *[Acta Astronautica](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00945765)*

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## History books and collections

* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) John D Clarke: [**Ignition!** An Informal History of
Liquid Rocket Propellants][5]
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) NASA: [Key documents in the history of space policy](http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/spdocs.html)
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) Boris Tchertok. Rockets and People. Vol.1: [part 1](http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4110/vol1-1.pdf), [part 2](http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4110/vol1-2.pdf), [part 3](http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4110/vol1-3.pdf). [Vol.2](http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4110/vol2.pdf) [Vol.3](http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4110/vol3.pdf) [Vol.4](http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4110/vol4.pdf)
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) NASA History Office books ([online](http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/series95.html))
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) Carey McCleskey. [Space Shuttle Operations and Infrastructure: A Systems Analysis of Design Root Causes and Effects](http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20050172128_2005171687.pdf) (2005).
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) [Space Shuttle Missions Summary](http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/reference/TM-2011-216142.pdf) (NASA, 2011) [The same file at NTRS](https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20110001406/downloads/20110001406.pdf).
* Tom Wolfe. The Right Stuff. 1979.
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) [Apollo manuals](http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/links.html) from Ron Burkey.
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) [Stages to Saturn](http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Documents/StagesToSaturn-Bilstein.pdf), Roger E. Bilstein. 1980.
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) [Taming Liquid Hydrogen: The Centaur Upper Stage Rocket, 1958-2002](https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4230.pdf) <!-- (http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20040084080.pdf) (Warning: 320.5 MB PDF!) -->
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) [A brief history of the DoD space test program](http://web.archive.org/web/20110419192350/http://astronautix.com/data/93dodstp.pdf), ANSER, 1993.
* Energiya-Buran: The soviet space shuttle. Bart Hendrickx, Bert Vis. Springer, 2007. ISBN [9780387698489](https://www.worldcat.org/title/energiya-buran-the-soviet-space-shuttle/oclc/153582339)
* **Project Orion : the true story of the atomic spaceship**,  George Dyson. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2002. ISBN [0805059857](https://www.worldcat.org/title/project-orion-the-true-story-of-the-atomic-spaceship/oclc/47745832)
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) **From Sputnik to space ports in 55 pages: The History of Spaceflight**. Available [here (PDF)](http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/science_technology/ch2historyofspaceflight.authcheckdam.pdf).
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) **Press Information: Space Shuttle Transportation System March 1982**. A highly detailed reference on Space Shuttle systems from Rockwell International, one year into the flight program. [WebArchive PDF version](https://archive.org/download/PressInformationSpaceShuttleTransportationSystemMarch1982/Press_Information_Space_Shuttle_Transportation_System_March_1982.pdf). NASA has a full HTML version of the 1988 revision online [here](https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/stsref-toc.html) but it omits all the illustrations.
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) [Shuttle Operational Data Book Volume IV (partial)](https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/images/images/pao/STS-PDF/) Part of the "crash book" issued to rescue personnel in the early parts of the shuttle program, contains highly detailed drawings of the Orbiter exterior and some interior systems. Sadly incomplete. (h/t OrganicMarble)
* ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) **[Space Shuttle Recordation](https://www.nasa.gov/agency/crm/shuttle/narrative.html
)** : Historic American Engineering Records documentation of the Space Transportation System. Comprehensive. (h/t OrganicMarble)


![](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/raw/master/badges/orion.png)

Above: Orion test article powered by conventional explosives. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Sv5y6iHUM

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## Nonfiction and activity space books for children

* ![Age 4-8](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/badges/4-8.png?raw=true) Brian Floca: *Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11* NY : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009. (48 pages) ISBN 9781416950462
* ![Age 5-7](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/badges/5-7.png?raw=true) Martha E. H. Rustad: *The Exploring Space* (6 x 24 pages)
* Linda McReynolds: *Eight Days Gone* (48 pages, 2012) ISBN 9781580893640.
* ![Age 7-11](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/badges/7-11.png?raw=true) Raman Prinja: *Universe Rocks* (4 x 32 pages, 2012) ISBN 9781848359345.
* Elise Gravel: *Blast off with Doodle Tom* (96 pages)
* ![Age 8-10](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/badges/8-10.png?raw=true) Heinemann-Raintree (publisher): *Astronaut Travel Guides* (8 x 48 pages)
* ![Age 9+](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/badges/9plus.png?raw=true) Mark Brake, Nishant Choksi: *Really, Really Big Questions about Space and Time* (64 pages)
* ![Age 9-13](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/badges/9-13.png?raw=true) Don Nardo: *Destined for Space* (64 pages)
* ![Age 9-13](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/badges/9-13.png?raw=true) Enslow Publishers: *The American Space Missions—Astronauts, Exploration, and Discovery* (6 x 48 pages)
* ![Age 10+](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/badges/10plus.png?raw=true) Ian Graham: *3D Explorer: Solar System* (32 pages pop-up)
* ![Age 10-13](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/badges/10-13.png?raw=true) Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano, Michael Carroll: *A Black Hole Is Not a Hole* (48 pages)
* ![Age 10+](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/badges/10plus.png?raw=true) Clive Gifford: *Out of This World: All the Cool Bits About Space* (128 pages)
* ![Age 10+](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/badges/10plus.png?raw=true) Pamela Dell: *Man on the Moon: How a Photograph Made Anything Seem Possible* (64 pages)
* Kristen McCurry, Mat Edwards: *How to Draw Amazing Airplanes and Spacecraft* (64 pages)
* ![Age 11+](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/badges/11plus.png?raw=true) Eve Hartman, Wendy Meshbesher: *Mission to Mars* (56 pages)

* [Review of children's space-themed books by Emily Lakdawalla](http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/11130900-reviews-of-space-themed-books.html)

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## Interdisciplinary books

* **Cosmochemistry**. Harry Y. McSween Jr., Gary R. Huss. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010. ISBN 9780521878623.
* **Atlas of the Galilean Satellites**. Paul Schenk. 2010. ISBN 9780521868358.

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## Miscellaneous

### Lists of online books/reports

*  ![Online](https://i.imgur.com/BuJHYIv.png) Downloadable PDFs from the National Research Council: https://www.nap.edu/topic/420/space-and-aeronautics/space-systems-and-hardware

### Lists in this repository

* [NASA NTRS papers of interest](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/NTRS.md)
* [Videos](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/Videos.md)
* [Alcubierre drive](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/Alcubierre.md)
* [EM-Drive](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/EM-Drive.md)
* [Launches, ephemerides, observations](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/events.md)


### Online courses and textbooks (free of charge)

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 * [NASA Basics of Space Flight](http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/index.php)
 * [Khan Academy](https://www.khanacademy.org/science/physics)
 * [The Physics Hypertextbook](http://physics.info/)
 * [Bookboon's Engineering section](http://bookboon.com/en/engineering-ebooks)
 * [Engineering Mathematics: YouTube Workbook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL13760D87FA88691D)
 * [Alison Foundation Diploma in Mathematics - Science, Technology and Engineering](http://alison.com/courses/Foundation-Diploma-in-Mathematics-Science-Technology-Engineering)

### John E. Draim's satellite constellation patents

[4809935](http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=4809935), [4854527](http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=4854527), [5582367](http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=5582367), [5669585](http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=5669585), [5788187](http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=5788187), [5845206](http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=5845206), [5957409](http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=5957409), [5979832](http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=5979832), [6102335](http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=6102335), [6263188](http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=6263188), [6457678](http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=6457678), [6487476](http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=6487476), [6577864](http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=6577864), [6611683](http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=6611683), [6678519](http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=6678519), [6701126](http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=6701126), [6714521](http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=6714521), [6795687](http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=6795687), [6954613](http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=6954613)


### What to do next

* [(Wikipedia) List of aerospace engineering schools](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aerospace_engineering_schools)
* [NASA Astronaut selection](https://astronauts.nasa.gov/)

<!-- Mars collection from NASA HQ


Clarke, Jonathan D. A. Mars Analog Research. San Diego, CA: Published for the American Astronautical Society by Univelt, 2006.
    TL787 .A51 V.111 BOOKSTACKS
 
Cockell, Charles S. (ed.). Martian Expedition Planning: Proceedings of the Martian Expedition Planning Symposium of the British Interplanetary Society. San Diego, CA: published for the American Astronautical Society and the British Interplanetary Society by Univelt, Inc., 2004.
    TL787 .A51 V.107 BOOKSTACKS
 
Davis, Mark J. Mars: Dead or Alive. Boston, MA: WGBH Video, 2004.
    TL799 .M3 D43 2004 DVD
 
__________. Welcome to Mars. Boston, MA: WGBH Video, 2005.
    QB641 .W45 2005 DVD
 
Elachi, Charles. Dr. Elachi's MER video clips. Pasadena, CA: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2004.
    TL799 .M3 D7 2004 VIDEO
 
Godwin, Robert. Mars. Burlington, Ont.: Apogee Books, 2005.
    QB641 .G63 2005 BOOKSTACKS
 
__________. Mars: The NASA Mission Reports. Burlington, Ont.: Apogee Books, 2000, 2004.
    TL799 .M3 M37 2000, 2004 BOOKSTACKS
 
Goursac, Olivier de. Visions of Mars. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 2005.
    QB641 .G69 2005 BOOKSTACKS
 
Harland, David M. Water and the Search for Life on Mars. Berlin; New York: Springer; Chichester, UK: In association with Praxis Publishing, 2005.
    QB643 .W38 H37 2005 BOOKSTACKS
 
Mars Science Program Synthesis Group. Mars Exploration Strategy, 2009-2020. Pasadena, CA: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2004.
    TL521.312 .M37 2004 BOOKSTACKS
 
McElyea, Tim. Project Constellation: Moon, Mars, and Beyond. Burlington, Ont.: Apogee Books, 2007.
    TL789.8 .U6 C66 M34 2007 BOOKSTACKS
 
National Research Council. Committee to Review the Next Decade Mars Architecture. Assessment of NASA's Mars Architecture, 2007-2016. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2006.
    QB641 .A87 2006 BOOKSTACKS
 
Passport to Knowledge. What Went Right. Morristown, NJ: Passport to Knowledge, 2006.
    QB641 .W43 2006 DVD
 
Shayler, David. Marswalk One: First Steps on a New Planet. Berlin ; New York: Springer; Chichester, UK: In association with Praxis Publishing, 2005.
    TL799 .M3 S53 2005 BOOKSTACKS
 
Squyres, Steven W. Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet. New York, NY: Hyperion, 2005.
    QB641 .S67 2005 BOOKSTACKS
 
Tokano, Tetsuya. Water on Mars and Life. Berlin; New York: Springer, 2005.
    QB643 .W38 T65 2005 BOOKSTACKS
 
Zubrin, Robert and Frank Crossman. On to Mars II: Exploring and Settling a New World. Burlington, Ont.: Apogee, 2005.
    TL799 .M3 O58 2005 BOOKSTACKS 
-->

<!-- NASA history division Mars bibliography

 A Selected Annotated Bibliography on Martian Exploration
Baker, Victor R. The Channels of Mars. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982. A detailed scientific study of the features seen from Earth that were first popularized as canals.

Batson, R.M.; Bridges, P.M.; and Inge, J.L. Atlas of Mars: The 1:5M Map Series. Washington, DC: NASA Special Publication-438, 1979. Perhaps the best maps available of the planet, based on data returned from the Viking project that arrived at the planet in 1976.

Bizony, Piers. The Rivers of Mars: Searching for the Cosmic Origins of Life. London, England: Aurum Press, 1997. A popularly written account of the search for life on Mars. It contains an excellent account of the discoveries first publicized in August 1996 about the possibility of past Martian life contained in a meteorite.

Bradbury, Ray; Clarke, Arthur C.; Murray, Bruce C.; and Sagan, Carl. Mars and the Mind of Man. New York: Harper and Row, 1973. A superb analysis by a stellar collection of authors, this book discusses the place of the planet Mars in the mythology and science of humanity from the ancients to the late twentieth century.

Braun, Wernher von. The Mars Project. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1953. Originally published in Germany the year before, this important study describes in some detail the technical and scientific attributes of a human expedition to Mars that the authors says was feasible in the mid-1950s.

Burgess, Eric. To the Red Planet. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. A very good general interest discussion of what had been learned about Mars from several probes, including the Viking mission if the 1970s.

Caidin, Martin. Destination Mars. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1972. A popular discussion of the possibilities of undertaking a human expedition to Mars as a follow-on to the successful Apollo program that landed an American on the Moon in 1969.

Carr, Michael H. The Surface of Mars. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981. A scientific investigation of the geological features of Mars.

_____. Water on Mars. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. A new book discussing the scientific possibility that water might have once existed on Mars, and of course water is a critical component of life as its exists on Earth.

Collins, Michael. Mission to Mars: An Astronaut's Vision of Our Future in Space. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. A very fine argument on behalf of an aggressive exploration of the Red Planet, including a recapitulation of the earlier advocacies of this effort.

Cooper, Henry S.F. The Search for Life on Mars: Evolution of an Idea. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1980. An excellent encapsulation of the lure of Mars for Americans because of the hope that life might presently, or at some time in the past, be found.

Ezell, Edward Clinton, and Ezell, Linda Neumann. On Mars: Exploration of the Red Planet, 1958-1978. Washington, DC: NASA Special Publication-4212, 1984. A detailed study of NASA's efforts to send space probes to Mars, culminating with the soft-landing of the two Viking spacecraft in the mid-1970s.

Fisher, David E. The Third Experiment: Is There Life on Mars? New York: Atheneum, 1985. This is a fine popular account of the Viking biology experiments that took place on Mars during the mid-1970s landings.

Glasstone, Samuel. The Book of Mars. Washington, DC: NASA Special Publication-179, 1968. This important book explores the development of human knowledge about Mars separating what was known through science, especially space science, and what had been handed down in myth. An excellent point of departure for any investigation of the scientific understanding of the planet, but now outdated because of the results of probes since 1968.

Hartmann, William K., and Raper, Odell. The New Mars: The Discoveries of Mariner 9. Washington, DC: NASA Special Publication 337, 1974. A reasonably well-done description of the mission to Mars by Mariner 9 in the early 1970s.

Hoyt, William Graves. Lowell and Mars. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1976. An outstanding biography of Percival Lowell, pioneering American astronomer, and his lifelong fascination with Mars and the possibility that it had once been the home of intelligent life that had built canals observable from Earth.

Keiffer, H.H.; Jakosky, B.M.; Snyder, C.W.; and Matthews, M.S. Editors. Mars. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1992. A detailed collection of scientific papers on the makeup and evolution of the red planet.

Ley, Willy, et al. The Exploration of Mars. New York: Viking, 1956. Illustrated by Chesley Bonestell, this is an exquisite large format book that posited the future exploration of the red planet.

Lowell, Percival. Mars as the Abode of Life. New York: Macmillan, 1908. No one did more to popularize the idea of life of Mars than astronomer Percival Lowell. This book specifically addresses the question.

_____. Mars and its Canals. New York: Macmillan, 1906. Percival Lowell, a Brahmin from Massachusetts, became interested in Mars during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Using personal funds and grants from other sources he built what became the Lowell Observatory near Flagstaff, Arizona, to study the planets. This research led him to argue that Mars had once been a watery planet and that the topographical features known as canals had been built by intelligent beings. Over the course of the next forty years others used Lowell's observations of Mars as a foundation for their arguments. The idea of intelligent life on Mars stayed in the popular imagination for many years thereafter.

_____. Mars. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1895. Perhaps the earliest thorough study of the planet published in America, Lowell argued that the features viewed on the Martian surface were canals that perhaps carried water. This book discusses the astronomical information associated with Mars as it stood at the turn of the twentieth century and posited that the canals might make possible life on the planet.

Matsunaga, Senator Spark M. The Mars Project: Journeys Beyond the Cold War. New York: Hill and Wang, 1986. Written by the then senator from Hawaii, the author posits that in the post-Cold War era cooperation rather than competition should inform space policy. In that context, he advocates the development of a cooperative mission to Mars with the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia.

Moore, Patrick. Guide to Mars. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1977. A scientific discussion of what was known about the planet, including an early discussion of the findings from the Viking project.

Mutch, T.A. et al. The Geology of Mars. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976. A detailed collection of scientific papers on the geology of the red planet.

Putnam, W.L. Editor. The Explorers of Mars Hill: A Centennial History of Lowell Observatory. Phoenix, AZ: Phoenix Publishing, 1994. No observatory in the United States has been more significant than the Lowell established in the last decade of the nineteenth century outside Flagstaff, Arizona. This centennial history describes the origins and development of the observatory from its founding by Percival Lowell to the 1990s.

Richardson, Robert Shirley. Exploring Mars. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1954. Focusing on astronomy, this small book discusses the scientific knowledge available about the planet in the early 1950s.

_____, and Bonestell, Chesley. Mars. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1964. Illustrated by quintessential space artist Chesley Bonestell, this large format book captures the excitement of Martian exploration and the possibilities of eventual colonization of the planet.

Sheehan, William. The Planet Mars: A History of Observation and Discovery. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996. An excellent survey of how humans have acquired knowledge about the Red Planet from antiquity to the present. It concentrates on the work of Earth-based astronomers but also includes succinct narratives of the Mariner 4 mission and the Viking project of the 1970s.

Slipher, E.C. A Photographic History of Mars. Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1962. A fine collection of early photographs taken of the planet, along with useful descriptions and analysis.

Stoker, Carol A., and Emmart, Carter. Editors. Strategies for Mars: A Guide to Human Exploration. San Diego, CA: Univelt, Inc., 1996. The most up-to-date and useful of several books related to Mars exploration, this collection of essays provides a rationale, technology assessment, and political analysis of the endeavor through the lens of quite a lot of historical perspective.

Strughold, Hubertus. The Red and Green Planet: A Physiological Study of the Possibility of Life on Mars. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1953. Strughold was one of the leading authorities of the 1950s on space medicine and this scientific book suggested it was possible that life either had or possibly still did exist on Mars in some form.

Viking Lander Imaging Team. The Martian Landscape. Washington, DC: NASA SP425, 1978. An outstanding scientific study of the results of the Viking project to Mars in the mid-1970s.

Wallace, Alfred Russel. Is Mars Inhabited? New York: Macmillan, 1907. Percival Lowell's conclusions about Mars as an alive world were challenged in this devastating critique. Wallace, a colleague and co-author with Charles Darwin, demolished many of Lowell's assertions about Mars as a place habitable by humans in this work.

Washburn, Mark. Mars at Last! New York: G.P. Putnam, 1977. The first popular account of the Viking mission to Mars that landed probes on the planet's surface.

Wilford, John Noble. Mars Beckons: The Mysteries, the Challenges, the Expectations of Our Next Great Adventure in Space. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. A superior explanation of the possibilities of Mars exploration, including a discussion of earlier plans to send humans to the red planet.

Zubrin, Robert, and Wagner, Richard. The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why. New York: The Free Press, 1996. A compelling explanation of the rationale why humans must travel to Mars as well as a scenario for how to do so at a reasonable cost ans with technology presently available.

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<hr/>

## The list of (historical and current) launch vehicle user manuals

* ![USA](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/United-States-Flag-24.png) [Saturn V](http://history.nasa.gov/ap08fj/pdf/sa503-flightmanual.pdf) (SA-503 **flight** manual)
* SU [Energiya]
* ![USA](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/United-States-Flag-24.png) [Delta 2](http://www.ulalaunch.com/uploads/docs/DeltaIIPayloadPlannersGuide2007.pdf)
* ![USA](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/United-States-Flag-24.png) [Delta 4](http://www.ulalaunch.com/uploads/docs/Launch_Vehicles/Delta_IV_Users_Guide_June_2013.pdf)
* ![USA](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/United-States-Flag-24.png) & ![Russia](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/Russia-Flag-24.png) [Atlas 5](http://www.ulalaunch.com/uploads/docs/AtlasVUsersGuide2010.pdf)
* ![USA](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/United-States-Flag-24.png) [Athena Ic and IIc](http://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed/data/space/documents/athena/Athena_MPG_01-23-12.pdf)
* ![EU](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/European-Union-Flag-24.png) [Ariane 5](http://www.arianespace.com/launch-services-ariane5/Ariane5_users_manual_Issue5_July2011.pdf)
* ![EU](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/European-Union-Flag-24.png) [Vega](http://www.arianespace.com/launch-services-vega/VEGAUsersManual.pdf)
* ![Russia](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/Russia-Flag-24.png) [Soyuz (from Baykonur), archived at Arianespace](http://web.archive.org/web/20070304094917/http://arianespace.com/site/images/soyuz_users_manual_190401.pdf) as of 2007-03-04
* ![Russia](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/Russia-Flag-24.png) ![EU](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/European-Union-Flag-24.png) [Soyuz (from Baykonur), StarSem](http://web.archive.org/web/20130620195416/http://www.starsem.com/services/images/soyuz_users_manual_190401.pdf) as of 2013-06-20
* ![Russia](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/Russia-Flag-24.png) ![EU](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/European-Union-Flag-24.png) [Soyuz (from Guiana Space Centre)](http://www.arianespace.com/launch-services-soyuz/Soyuz-Users-Manual-March-2012.pdf) as of 2012-03
* ![Russia](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/Russia-Flag-24.png) [Proton](http://www.ilslaunch.com/sites/default/files/pdf/Proton%20Mission%20Planner's%20Guide%20Revision%207%20(LKEB-9812-1990).pdf) Mission planning guide Rev.7 from ILS
* ![Russia](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/Russia-Flag-24.png) [Angara] - somebody keeps the guide available at L2, it seems. Not really wise.
* ![China](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/China-Flag-24.png) [Long March 2C](http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/library/report/1999/2c.htm) an archive copy (1999) from GlobalSecurity in separate chapters.
* ![China](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/China-Flag-24.png) [Long March 3A](http://cgwic.com/LaunchServices/Download/manual/LM-3A%20Series%20Launch%20Vehicles%20User%27s%20Manual%20Issue%202011.pdf) (final version, 2011)
* ![Japan](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/Japan-Flag-24.png) [H-IIA](https://www.raumfahrer.net/forum/smf/index.php?action=media;sa=media;in=2955;dl) - 2001. You can also contact the manufacturer. [D'oh!](https://www.mhi-global.com/cgi-bin/inquiry/index.cgi?code=10066&product=H-IIALaunchServices(User%27sManual))
* ![Japan](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/Japan-Flag-24.png) [H-IIB]
* ![India](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/India-Flag-24.png) [PSLV](https://laser-swarm.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Literature/GRM-ISR-MA-0298%20%5B4.0%5D%20PSLV%20User%27s%20Manual.pdf) as of 2005
* ![India](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/India-Flag-24.png) [GSLV]
* ![USA](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/United-States-Flag-24.png) [Taurus-II](https://web.archive.org/web/20100509062344/http://www.orbital.com/NewsInfo/Publications/Taurus_II_Guide.pdf) - archived at Wayback Machine
* ![USA](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/United-States-Flag-24.png) [Antares]
* ![Ukraine](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/Ukraine-Flag-24.png) ![Russia](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/Russia-Flag-24.png) [Zenit-3SL (from Sea Launch)](http://www.sea-launch.com/download.ashx?r=2&q=9) (Rev.D User guide, December 2012) 
* ![Ukraine](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/Ukraine-Flag-24.png) ![Russia](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/Russia-Flag-24.png) [Dnepr-1](http://snebulos.mit.edu/projects/crm/DNEPR/Dnepr_User_Guide.pdf)
* ![Russia](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/Russia-Flag-24.png) [Rockot](http://www.eurockot.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/UsersGuideIss5Rev0web.pdf)
* ![USA](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/United-States-Flag-24.png) [Minotaur I](http://web.archive.org/web/20110616075716/http://www.orbital.com/NewsInfo/Publications/Minotaur_Guide.pdf) as of 2011-06-16
* ![USA](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/United-States-Flag-24.png) [Pegasus](https://web.archive.org/web/20140702071121/http://www.orbital.com/LaunchSystems/Publications/Pegasus_UsersGuide.pdf) - a historical copy from Web Archive as of 2014-07-02. Merger with ATK did not leave stones unturned.
* ![USA](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/United-States-Flag-24.png) [Falcon 9](http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/falcon_9_users_guide_rev_2.0.pdf) (from SpaceX) [old version from NASA](http://decadal.gsfc.nasa.gov/pace-201206mdl/Launch%20Vehicle%20Information/Falcon9UsersGuide_2009.pdf)
<!-- * ![USA](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/United-States-Flag-24.png) [Falcon 9](https://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/001/f9guide.pdf) (At SpaceFlightNow) -->
* ![USA](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/United-States-Flag-24.png) Falcon 9 Full Thrust (re-usable)
* ![Japan](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/Japan-Flag-24.png) Epsilon (a Japanese proto-ICBM)
* ![Japan](https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-space-books/blob/master/flags/Japan-Flag-24.png) H3 (a planned Japanese 4t - to - SSO launcher with [solid rocket boosters](http://global.jaxa.jp/activity/pr/brochure/files/rocket09.pdf), subsidizing future ICBM conversion potential).

_It should be noted that there are on-line commercial resources with space-related technical information (like the above-mentioned, but not advertised here **L2**). Readers are encouraged to check availability of linked documents (even those accessible via Web Archive) and submit pull requests with permanent links at [archive.is](https://archive.is) to avoid knuckle-headed retroactive cleanup perpetrated by web site owners._

An infographic from Randall Munroe (Copyright XKCD):

[![Copyright XKCD](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/payloads_large.png)](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/payloads_large.png)


## Where to look for other awesome lists

* [awesome-awesome](https://github.com/emijrp/awesome-awesome)
* [awesome-awesomeness](https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness)
* [sindresorhus/awesome](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)
* [The Warren](https://github.com/torchhound/warren)

  [1]: http://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/coming_home_detail.html
  [2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20140722111108/http://web.mit.edu/e_peters/Public/Rockets/Rocket_Propulsion_Elements.pdf
  [3]: http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~koon/book/KoLoMaRo_DMissionBk.pdf
  [4]: http://www.risacher.org/rocket/
  [5]: http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf
