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Space flight -- Juvenile fiction

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• Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet (c1952), by Blake Savage, illust. by E. Dean Cate (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet (1969 edition), by Blake Savage (Gutenberg text)
• Bikey the Skicycle, and the Other Tales of Jimmieboy (New York: Riggs Pub. Co., 1902), by John Kendrick Bangs, illust. by Peter Newell
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

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

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Problem of Space Travel: The Rocket Motor, by Hermann Noordung (PDF at NASA)
• From Stargazers to Starships, by David P. Stern (illustrated HTML at phy6.com)

• Space Resources and Space Settlements (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1979), ed. by John Billingham, William Gilbreath, and Brian O'Leary, contrib. by Gerard K. O'Neill (illustrated HTML with commentary at nss.org)

• Human Factors in Automated and Robotic Space Systems, ed. by Thomas B. Sheridan, Dana S. Kruser, and Stanley Deutsch (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Human Factors in Automated and Robotic Space Systems, ed. by Thomas B. Sheridan, Dana S. Kruser, and Stanley Deutsch (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Sorceress of Karres (included on a Baen CD image; c2010), by Eric Flint and Dave Freer
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
• The Skylark of Space (revised book version, 1958), by E. E. Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Vorpal Blade (included on the Claws That Catch Baen CD image; c2007), by John Ringo and Travis S. Taylor
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 285 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 286 MB
• Skylark DuQuesne (1966), by E. E. Smith (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Aliens (originally published in Astounding Science Fiction, August 1959), by Murray Leinster, illust. by H. R. Van Dongen (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Skylark of Space (original magazine version, 1928), by E. E. Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Cold Equations, and Other Stories (included on a Baen CD image), by Tom Godwin, ed. by Eric Flint
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB
• Star Dragon, by Mike Brotherton (multiple formats with commentary at mikebrotherton.com)
• Star Soldiers, by Andre Norton (multiple formats at Baen Free Library)
• 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

• Operation: Outer Space, by Murray Leinster
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at durendal.org
• The Vortex Blaster (as published in Comet, 1941), by E. E. Smith, illust. by John R. Forte (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Wunderwelten: Wie Lord Flitmore Eine Seltsame Reise zu Den Planeten Unternimmt und Durch Einen Kometen in die Fixsternwelt Entführt Wird (in German; Stuttgart: Verlag für Volkskunst, Rich. Keutel, ca. 1911), by Friedrich Wilhelm Mader, illust. by Willi Egler
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• 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

• 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)

• 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
• 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
• Access to Space: The Future of U.S. Space Transportation Systems (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Into the Unknown Together: The DOD, NASA, and Early Spaceflight (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2005), by Mark Erickson (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Civilian Space Stations and the U.S. Future in Space (1984), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• 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)

• The Soviet Reach for the Moon: The L-1 and L-3 Manned Lunar Programs and the Story of the N-1 "Moon Rocket" (second edition, c1995), by Nicholas L. Johnson (PDF at usra.edu)

• Hypersonics Before the Shuttle: A Concise History of the X-15 Research Airplane (2000), by Dennis R. Jenkins (PDF at NASA)

• Jonathan's Space Report (1989-), by Jonathan McDowell (full serial archives)

• Advanced Technology for Human Support in Space, by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• New Moons: Towing Asteroids into Earth Orbits for Exploration and Exploitation: Transcripts of the Presentations at the Special Session of the Eighth Lunar Science Conference, 16 March 1977, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas (Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1977), ed. by David R. Criswell (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century, ed. by Wendell W. Mendell (page images at Harvard)

• Project Horizon (2 volumes; prepared in 1959, and later declassified), by United States Army
  • Volume I (summary and supporting considerations); PDF at army.mil
  • Volume II (technical considerations and plans); PDF at army.mil

• Moon Miner's Manifesto (partial serial archives)

• Lessons Learned From the Clementine Mission (1997), by National Research Council Space Studies Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Moon Trip: A Personal Account of the Apollo Program and its Science (c1989), by Elbert A. King (PDF files at usra.edu)
• Planetary Science: A Lunar Perspective (c1982), by Stuart Ross Taylor (PDF files at usra.edu)
• Mission Science Planning Document, Apollo Mission J-3 (Apollo 17) (revision of October 6, 1972), by TRW Systems Group, contrib. by Richard R. Baldwin (PDF with commentary at USRA Houston Repository)
• Apollo by the Numbers: A Statistical Reference (electronic edition, 2001), by Richard W. Orloff (HTML at NASA)
• Apollo 17 Crew Debriefing for Science: January 8, 1973 (1973), by Manned Spacecraft Center Science Requirements and Operations Branch (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)
• Apollo 17 Science Handbook (1972), by TRW Systems Group (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• Psychology of Space Exploration: Contemporary Research in Historical Perspective (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2011), ed. by Douglas A. Vakoch (multiple formats with commentary at NASA)
• Living Aloft: Human Requirements for Extended Spaceflight, by Mary M. Connors, Albert A. Harrison, and Faren R. Akens (illustrated HTML at NASA)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.