Interstellar travel
Here are entered general works on travel to the stars. Works on the physics and technical details of locomotion beyond the earth's atmosphere are entered under Space flight. General and technical works on manned space travel are entered under Manned space flight. General works on the scientific, technological, and engineering disciplines needed for the exploration of outer space are entered under Astronautics. Works giving accounts of events and experiences during specific manned space flights are entered under Space flights.
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Operation: Outer Space, by Murray Leinster- 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
- 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.
Filed under: Astronautics- 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)
- From Engineering Science to Big Science: The NACA and NASA Collier Trophy Research Project Winners, ed. by Pamela Etter Mack (illustrated HTML at NASA)
- 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)
- A Chronology of Missile and Astronautic Events: Report of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Eighty-Seventh Congress, First Session (Washington: GPO, 1961), by United States House Committee on Science and Astronautics (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Chronology of Missile and Astronautic Events: Report of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Eighty-Seventh Congress, First Session (Washington: GPO, 1961), by United States House Committee on Science and Astronautics (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)
- Hypersonics Before the Shuttle: A Concise History of the X-15 Research Airplane (2000), by Dennis R. Jenkins (PDF at NASA)
- 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)
- Vanguard: A History, by Constance McLaughlin Green and Milton Lomask (illustrated HTML at NASA)
- From Engineering Science to Big Science: The NACA and NASA Collier Trophy Research Project Winners, ed. by Pamela Etter Mack (illustrated HTML at NASA)
- Reflections of a Technocrat: Managing Defense, Air, and Space Programs During the Cold War (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2006), by John L. McLucas, contrib. by Kenneth J. Alnwick and Lawrence R. Benson
- International Cooperation and Competition in Civilian Space Activities (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
- Moon Miner's Manifesto (partial serial archives)
- The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society (2005), by International Academy of Astronautics and European Space Agency (PDF at esa.int)
- NASA Technical Translation (partial serial archives)
- Affordable Spacecraft: Design and Launch Alternatives (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
- Beyond the Atmosphere: Early Years of Space Science, by Homer E. Newell (illustrated HTML at NASA)
- Magnetic Bearings for Instruments in the Space Environment (technical memorandum 78048; Washington: NASA Scientific and Technical Information Office, 1978), by Philip A. Studer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beyond the Paths of Heaven: The Emergence of Space Power Thought (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1999), ed. by Bruce M. DeBlois (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
- Aerospace Power in the Twenty-First Century: A Basic Primer (2001), by Clayton K. S. Chun
- My Trip to Mars (Clarksburg, WV: Saucerian Books, 1955), by William Ferguson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- 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)
- Toward Distant Suns (originally published 1979), by T. A. Heppenheimer (illustrated HTML with commentary at nss.org)
- Beyond the Atmosphere: Early Years of Space Science, by Homer E. Newell (illustrated HTML at NASA)
- Space Technology for the New Century, by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
- 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)
- Living Aloft: Human Requirements for Extended Spaceflight, by Mary M. Connors, Albert A. Harrison, and Faren R. Akens (illustrated HTML at NASA)
- Space Law and Government (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, c1963), by Andrew G. Haley (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects (1968), by United States House Committee on Science and Astronautics (HTML with commentary at ncas.org)
- The World of Flying Saucers: A Scientific Examination of a Major Myth of the Space Age (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963), by Donald H. Menzel and Lyle Gifford Boyd (page images at HathiTrust)
- From Outer Space to You (Clarksburg, WV: Saucerian Books, c1959), by Howard Menger (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., c1956), by Edward J. Ruppelt
- The Secret of the Saucers (Amherst, WI: Amherst Press, 1955), by Orfeo M. Angelucci, ed. by Ray Palmer (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Flying Saucers Are Real (New York: Fawcett Publications, 1950), by Donald E. Keyhoe
- Final Report of the Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, by Edward U. Condon and University of Colorado, ed. by Daniel S. Gillmor (HTML at ncas.org)
- X-15 Research Results, With a Selected Bibliography, by Wendell H. Stillwell (illustrated HTML at NASA)
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