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Case 1: History of NASA

Logsdon, John M., ed. Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program. Vol. 1. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Office, 1995.
TL789.8 .U5 E87 1995 v.1

National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA, The First 25 Years, 1958-1983: A Resource for Teachers: A Curriculum Project. Washington, D.C.: NASA, 1983.
NAS 1.19: 182.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Space Flight: The First 30 Years. Washington, D.C.: NASA, Office of Space Flight, 1991.
NAS 1.83:150.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Apollo 11: 20th Anniversary of the First Lunar Landing. Washington, D.C., NASA, 1989.
NAS 1.43: AP 4/4.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration. First Launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia. Houston, TX: Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, NASA, 1985.
NAS 1.43: C72/3.

NASA homepage http://www.nasa.gov/home.html
NASA History Office http://history.nasa.gov
Russian Space Web http://www.russianspaceweb.com

Case 2: Sally Ride

Hopping, Lorraine Jean. Sally Ride: Space Pioneer. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Ride, Sally, and Susan Okie. To Space and Back. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1986.

Ride, Sally, and Tam O’Shaughnessy. The Mystery of Mars. New York: Random House, 1999.

Case 3: The Mercury 13 or the First Lady Astronaut Trainees

Freni, Pamela. Space for Women: A History of Women with the Right Stuff. Santa Ana, CA: Seven Locks Press, 2002.
TL539 .F74 2002

Haynsworth, Leslie, and David Toomey. Amelia Earhart’s Daughters. New York: William Morrow, 1998.
TL539 .H33 1998

“A Lady Proves She’s Fit for Space Flight.” Life 49 (August 29, 1960): 72-76.

Luce, Clare Boothe. “A Blue-Eyed Blonde in Orbit.” Life 54 (June 28, 1963): 28-33.

Mercury 13 – The Women of the Mercury Era http://www.mercury13.com/

Case 4: Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble Space Telescope: Servicing Mission 3B: Media Reference Guide. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2002.
NAS 1.18:H 86

Hubble Heritage http://heritage.stsci.edu/index.html

Cases 5 & 6: Unmanned Space Missions

Kelsius, Michael. “Super X-Ray Vision: Chandra, NASA's Orbiting X-Ray Observatory, Spies a Violent, Roiling Universe.” National Geographic 202 (December 2002): 42-45.

Voyager, the Grandest Tour: The Mission to the Outer Planets. Pasadena, CA : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 1991.
NAS 1.12/7:400-445

National Space Science Data Center (Galileo, Magellan, and Mars Pathfinder information) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov
Chandra http://chandra.harvard.edu/index.html
Space.com http://www.space.com
Voyager http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html

Case 7: Imagining Our Future

Bleiler, E.F., ed. Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day. New York; Scribner, 1982
Ref. PS374 .S35 S36 1982

Cower, David, and Thomas L. Wymer, ed. Twentieth-Century American Science Fiction Writers. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co., 1981
Ref. PN451 .D43 v.8 pt.1 & pt.2

Disch, Thomas M. The Dreams Our Stuff is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World. New York: Touchstone, 1998.
PN3433.5 .D57 1998

Wingrove, David, ed. The Science Fiction Source Book. New York; Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1984
Ref. PN3433.4 .S35 1984

Aldiss, Brian. Billion Year Spree: The True History of Science Fiction. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1973
PR830 .S35 A38

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