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• Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Aeronautics: Breakthrough Technologies to Meet Future Air and Space Transportation Needs and Goals, by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML 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)

• 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)

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

• Secrets of Space Flight (New York: Arco Pub. Co., c1956), by Lloyd Mallan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Living Aloft: Human Requirements for Extended Spaceflight, by Mary M. Connors, Albert A. Harrison, and Faren R. Akens (illustrated HTML at NASA)
• Man in Space: Study of Alternatives, contrib. by Harry A. Butowsky
  • illustrated HTML at National Park Service
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• 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)

• 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.