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Space sciences

Here are entered general works which include the requisite sciences for astronautical undertakings, for the scientific results of space exploration, and for the scientific applications of space flight. General works on the universe are entered under Astronomy. Special aspects are entered under particular subjects, e.g. Astronautics in meteorology; Cosmic physics; Outer space -- Exploration; Space biology; Space medicine.

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• Cosmology
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• Astronomy

• Space sciences -- Congresses
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• Space sciences -- Experiments
• Space sciences -- International cooperation
• Space sciences -- Periodicals
• Space sciences -- Research
• Space sciences -- Study and teaching
• Space sciences -- United States
• Astronautics
• Cosmic physics
• Cosmochemistry
• Ether (Space)
• Extraterrestrial anthropology
• Outer space
• Space and time
• Space astronomy
• Space biology
• Space medicine
• Space optics

• Science and space
• Space research
• Outline of space science

• Resources of Near-Earth Space (c1993), ed. by John S. Lewis, Mildred Shapley Matthews, and Mary L. Guerrieri (PDF files at Wayback Machine)
• Astronomy and Astrophysics (1988), by National Research Council Space Science Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Colonize Space! Open the Age of Reason (New York: New Benjamin Franklin House, 1985) (PDF at wlym.com)

• 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)

• 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)

• Protostars and Planets IV (2000), ed. by Vincent Mannings, Alan Boss, and Sara S. Russell (PDF files at Wayback Machine)

• Workshop on Cometary Dust in Astrophysics: August 10-15, 2003, Crystal Mountain, Washington (Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2003), ed. by Donald Brownlee, Lindsay P. Keller, and Scott R. Messenger (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• Workshop on Cometary Dust in Astrophysics: August 10-15, 2003, Crystal Mountain, Washington (Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2003), ed. by Donald Brownlee, Lindsay P. Keller, and Scott R. Messenger (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• Colloquium on the Age of the Universe, Dark Matter, and Structure Formation (1998), by National Academy of Sciences (HTML and page images with commentary at NAP)

• High-Energy Astrophysics: American and Soviet Perspectives (1991), by U.S.-USSR Workshop on High-Energy Astrophysics (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems III, ed. by Dennis R. Crabtree, R. J. Hanisch, and Jeannette V. Barnes (HTML in Canada)

• Calibrating Hubble Space Telescope: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, November 15-17, 1993, ed. by J. Chris Blades and Samantha J. Osmer (Postscript files at stsci.edu)

• Reducing the Costs of Space Science Research Missions: Proceedings of a Workshop (1997), by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and National Research Council Space Studies Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• U.S.-European Collaboration in Space Science, by National Research Council Space Studies Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• The Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF): Mission 1 Experiments, ed. by Lenwood G. Clark, William H. Kinar, David J. Carter, and James L. Jones (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• International Cooperation and Competition in Civilian Space Activities (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• International Cooperation and Competition in Civilian Space Activities (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Astrophysics and Space Sciences Transactions: ASTRA (2005-) (full serial archives)
• Earth, Planets and Space (full serial archives)

• Moon Miner's Manifesto (partial serial archives)

• Apeiron: Studies in Infinite Nature (1987-) (full serial archives)

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

• 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)
• United States Space Science Program: Report to COSPAR, Sixth Meeting, Warsaw, Poland, June 1963 (Washington: National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, 1963), by National Research Council Space Science Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• U.S.-European Collaboration in Space Science, by National Research Council Space Studies Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• Science Management in the Human Exploration of Space, by National Research Council Space Studies Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• NASA Contractor Report (partial serial archives)
• Space Handbook: Astronautics and Its Applications (c1959), by Robert W. Buchheim and Rand Corporation (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)
• Space Technology (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1959), ed. by Howard S. Seifert (page images at HathiTrust)
• NASA Technical Note (partial serial archives)
• United States Space Science Program: Report to COSPAR, Sixth Meeting, Warsaw, Poland, June 1963 (Washington: National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, 1963), by National Research Council Space Science Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Problem of Space Travel: The Rocket Motor, by Hermann Noordung (PDF at NASA)

• Resources of Near-Earth Space (c1993), ed. by John S. Lewis, Mildred Shapley Matthews, and Mary L. Guerrieri (PDF files at Wayback Machine)

• Ether and Matter (Richmond, VA: Dietz Printing Co., 1945), by Carl F. Krafft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient and Modern Physics (ca. 1902), by Thomas Edgar Willson (Gutenberg text)

• Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2014), ed. by Douglas A. Vakoch (multiple formats at NASA)

• The Universe of Motion (Portland, OR: North Pacific Publishers, 1984), by Dewey B. Larson (HTML at reciprocalsystem.com)
• New Light on Space and Time (Portland, OR: North Pacific Publishers, 1965), by Dewey B. Larson (illustrated HTML at reciprocalsystem.com)
• The Structure of the Physical Universe (second printing; Portland, OR: North Pacific Publishers, 1960), by Dewey B. Larson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Basic Properties of Matter (Portland, OR: North Pacific Publishers, 1988), by Dewey B. Larson (HTML at reciprocalsystem.com)
• The Neglected Facts of Science (for chapter 2, readers may need to click back from chapter 3; Portland, OR: North Pacific Publishers, 1982), by Dewey B. Larson (HTML with commentary at reciprocalsystem.com)
• La Relativité: Exposé Sans Formules des Théories d'Einstein, et Réfutation des Erreurs Contenues dans les Ouvrages les Plus Notoires (in French; Paris: E. Chiron, 1923), by André Metz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Space, Time and Gravitation: An Outline of the General Relativity Theory (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1920), by Arthur Stanley Eddington (Gutenberg PDF and LaTeX)
• Event-Symmetric Space-Time, by Philip Gibbs (frame-dependent HTML, Word, and PS at weburbia.com)
• Quid Aristoteles de Loco Senserit (dissertation in Latin; Paris: F. Alcan, 1889), by Henri Bergson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, by Henri Bergson, trans. by Frank Lubecki Pogson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A New Science Strategy for Space Astronomy and Astrophysics, by National Research Council Space Studies Board (HTML and page images at NAP)

• The Search for Life's Origins: Progress and Future Directions in Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution (1990), by National Research Council Space Studies Board (page images at NAP)

• Space Medicine in Project Mercury, by Mae Mills Link (HTML at NASA)

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