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• Satellite orbits (Artificial satellites)

• 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)

• Determination of Azimuth Angle at Burnout for Placing a Satellite Over a Selected Earth Position (NASA Technical Note D-233; 1960), by T. H. Skopinski and Katherine G. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Determination of Azimuth Angle at Burnout for Placing a Satellite Over a Selected Earth Position (NASA Technical Note D-233; 1960), by T. H. Skopinski and Katherine G. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Corona: America's First Satellite Program (1995), by United States Central Intelligence Agency, ed. by Kevin Conley Ruffner (PDF at fdlp.gov)

• 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)

• Remote Sensing and the Private Sector: Issues for Discussion (OTA-TM-ISC-20; 1984), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• 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)

• Guide to Lunar Orbiter Photographs (1970), by Thomas P. Hansen (PDF at usra.edu)
• Unmanned Space Project Management: Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter, by Erasmus H. Kloman (multiple formats at NASA)
• Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon, by David E. Bowker and J. Kenrick Hughes, ed. by Jeffrey J. Gillis (Javascript-dependent multimedia at usra.edu)

• Lunar Impact: A History of Project Ranger, by R. Cargill Hall (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• Determination of Azimuth Angle at Burnout for Placing a Satellite Over a Selected Earth Position (NASA Technical Note D-233; 1960), by T. H. Skopinski and Katherine G. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pioneer Odyssey (revised edition, 1977), by Richard O. Fimmel, William Swindell, and Eric Burgess (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• Engineering and the Advancement of Human Welfare: 10 Outstanding Achievements, 1964-1989, by National Academy of Engineering (page images with commentary 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)

• The Landsat Tutorial Workbook: Basics of Satellite Remote Sensing (Washington: NASA, 1982), by Nicholas M. Short (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Star Splitters: The High Energy Astronomy Observatories, by Wallace H. Tucker (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• 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)

• 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)

• Protecting the Space Station From Meteoroids and Orbital Debris (1997), by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Engineering Research and Technology Development on the Space Station (1996), by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Confronting Space Debris: Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon (c2010), by Dave Baiocchi and William Welser (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Moon Miner's Manifesto (partial serial archives)

• 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

• Commercial Lunar Propellant Architecture: A Collaborative Study of Lunar Propellant Production (ca .2018), ed. by David A. Kornuta (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• Development of a Hydrogen-Oxygen Internal Combustion Engine Auxiliary Electric Power Supply System (Detroit and Torrance, CA: Vickers Incorporated Division, Sperry Rand Corp., Aerospace Division, 1963), by Norman Evan Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Spacecraft Dynamics (c1983), by Thomas R. Kane, Peter W. Likins, and David A. Levinson (PDF with commentary at Cornell)

• Reusable Launch Vehicle: Technology Development and Test Program (1995), by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Reusable Launch Vehicle: Technology Development and Test Program (1995), by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• 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)

• Technology for Small Spacecraft (1994), by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• 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

• Far Travelers: The Exploring Machines (1985), by Oran W. Nicks (HTML at NASA)

• Survey of Characteristic Velocity Requirements for Two-Impulse Transfers Between Circular and Coplanar Exterior Elliptical Orbit With Exposition of Local and Overall Optimum Solutions (NASA Technical Note D-600; Washington: National Aernoautics and Space Administration, 1961), by Robert Silber (page images at HathiTrust)

• X-15 Research Results, With a Selected Bibliography, by Wendell H. Stillwell (illustrated HTML at NASA)

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