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• Reusable launch vehicle

• 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

• 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 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)

• Space Shuttle (1976), by Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (illustrated HTML at NASA)
• Protecting the Space Shuttle From Meteoroids and Orbital Debris, by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• The Space Shuttle at Work, by Howard Allaway (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (Gainesville, FL et al.: University Press of Florida, c2009), by Allan J. McDonald, contrib. by James R. Hansen (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Upgrading the Space Shuttle, by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• The Space Shuttle Decision: NASA's Search for a Reusable Space Vehicle, by T. A. Heppenheimer (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• Toward a History of the Space Shuttle: An Annotated Bibliography (2 volumes; Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1992-2012), by Roger D. Launius, Aaron K. Gillette, Malinda K. Goodrich, Alice R. Buchalter, and Patrick M. Miller
  • Part 1 (1954-1991): PDF at NASA
  • Part 2 (1992-2011): multiple formats with commentary at NASA

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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

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

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

• 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)

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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)

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

• Evaluating the Biological Potential in Samples Returned from Planetary Satellites and Small Solar System Bodies: Framework for Decision Making, by National Research Council Space Science Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung (c1961), by Victor Appleton, illust. by Charles Brey
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at durendal.org

• Seismic and Atmospheric Exploration of Venus (SAEVe) Final Report (2018), by Tibor Kremic, Richard Ghail, Martha Gilmore, G. W. Hunter, Walter S. Kiefer, Sanjay Limaye, Michael Pauken, and Colin F. Wilson (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.