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• Rockets (Aeronautics)
• Rockets (Ordnance)
• Space vehicles

• Space Technology (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1959), ed. by Howard S. Seifert (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Frank J. Malina Collection at the California Institute of Technology : Guide to a Microfiche Edition (1986), ed. by Judith R. Goodstein and Carol H. Bugé (PDF at Caltech)

• Morphology of Propulsive Power (Pasadena, CA: Society for Morphological Research, 1962), by F. Zwicky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aerodynamics, Propulsion, Structures and Design Practice (Princeton, NJ et al.: D. Van Nostrand Co., c1956), by Everard Arthur Bonney, Maurice J. Zucrow, and C. W. Besserer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Control of Aircraft and Missile Powerplants: An Introduction to the Analysis and Design of Engine Control Systems (New York and London: J. Wiley and Sons, 1963), by Albert J. Sobey and Alfred M. Suggs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rocket Propellants (New York: Reinhold Pub. Corp.; London: Chapman and Hall, c1958), by Francis A. Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liquid Hydrogen as a Propulsion Fuel, 1945-1959, by John L. Sloop (HTML at NASA)

• Launch Options for the Future: A Buyer's Guide (OTA-ISC-383; Washington: GPO, 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files with commentary at Princeton)
• Reusable Launch Vehicle: Technology Development and Test Program (1995), by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Lower Tiers of the Space Transportation Industrial Base (OTA-BP-ISS-161; Washington: GPO, 1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton

• Reducing Launch Operation Costs: New Technologies and Practices (OTA-TM-ISC-28; 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Affordable Spacecraft: Design and Launch Alternatives (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The National Space Transportation Policy: Issues for Congress (OTA-ISS-620; 1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • PDF at unt.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Big Dumb Boosters: A Low-Cost Space Transportation Option? (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles, by Roger E. Bilstein (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• MX Missile Basing (OTA-ISC-140; 1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Investigation of Catalyst Beds for 98-Percent-Concentration Hydrogen Peroxide (NASA Technical Note D-1808; Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1963), by Jack F. Runckel, Conrad M. Willis, and Leland B. Salters (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nuclear Flight: The United States Air Force Programs for Atomic Jets, Missiles, and Rockets (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1960), ed. by Kenneth Franklin Gantz (page images at HathiTrust)

• How to Design, Build and Test Small Liquid-Fuel Rocket Engines, by Leroy J. Krzycki (illustrated HTML at gramlich.net)

• NASA Sounding Rockets, 1958-1968: A Historical Summary (1971), by William R. Corliss (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• Claws That Catch (included on a Baen CD image; c2008), by John Ringo and Travis S. Taylor
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 285 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 286 MB
• Manxome Foe (included on the Claws That Catch Baen CD image; c2008), by John Ringo and Travis S. Taylor
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 285 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 286 MB
• The Wizard of Karres (included on a Baen CD image; c2004), by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, and Dave Freer
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB
• Skylark DuQuesne (1966), by E. E. Smith (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Skylark Three (book version, 1948), by E. E. Smith (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Interstellar Patrol II: The Federation of Humanity (included on a Baen CD image; c2005), by Christopher Anvil, ed. by Eric Flint
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB
• Skylark Three (original magazine version, 1930), by E. E. Smith (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Skylark of Space (revised book version, 1958), by E. E. Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Brain Ships (includes "The Ship Who Searched" and "Partnership"; part of a CD image), by Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey, and Margaret Ball
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
• Starliner, by David Drake (HTML at Baen Free Library)
• The Witches of Karres (included on a Baen CD image), by James H. Schmitz, ed. by Eric Flint
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB
• Voodoo Planet (New York: Ace Books, c1959), by Andre Norton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading)
• The Skylark of Space (original magazine version, 1928), by E. E. Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Plague Ship (New York: Ace Books, 1973, c1956), by Andre Norton
  • Gutenberg text and audio reading
  • page images at durendal.org
• Gulliver Joi: His Three Voyages: Being an Account of His Marvellous Adventures in Kailoo, Hydrogenia and Ejario (New York: C. Scribner, 1851), by Elbert Perce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interstellar Patrol (included on a Baen CD image), by Christopher Anvil and Eric Flint
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB
• A Journey in Other Worlds, by John Jacob Astor (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1894), by John Jacob Astor
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Warp Speed (included on a Baen CD image), by Travis S. Taylor
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 162 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 162 MB

• Space Station 1 (New York: Ace Books, c1957), by Frank Belknap Long (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Space Tug (New York: Pocket Books, c1953), by Murray Leinster
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at durendal.org
• Space Platform (New York: Pocket Books, c1953), by Murray Leinster (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Halo, by Tom Maddox (HTML at dthomasmaddox.com)

• Through the Sun in an Airship (London: C. Griffin and Co., ca. 1909), by John Mastin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Space Pioneers, by Carey Rockwell, contrib. by Willy Ley, illust. by Louis S. Glanzman (Gutenberg text)

• Radiation Hazards to Crews of Interplanetary Missions: Biological Issues and Research Strategies (1996), by National Research Council Space Studies Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Ancient Astronauts (7 issues online, published 1975-1977) (partial serial archives)

• Of a Fire on the Moon (as originally serialized in Life Magazine in 1969 and 1970), by Norman Mailer
  • Part I (A Fire on the Moon): page images at Google
  • Part II (The Psychology of Astronauts): page images at Google
  • Part III (A Dream of the Future's Face): page images at Google

• Spacelab, An International Short-Stay Orbiting Laboratory (1983), by Walter Froelich (illustrated HTML at NASA)
• The Problem of Space Travel: The Rocket Motor, by Hermann Noordung (PDF at NASA)

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