Research Material


Books (Mars specific):

Boston, Penelope, ed.  The Case for Mars.  San Diego: Univelt, 1984.  Proceedings of a conference held April 29 - May 2, 1981.

Bova, Ben.  Mars.  New York: Bantam Books, 1992.  Fiction.

Burgess, Eric.  To the Red Planet.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1978.  Account of the Viking expedition.

Carr, Michael.  The Surface of Mars.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.  A geological overview of Mars.

Collins, Michael.  Mission to Mars.  New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990.  Mars mission concepts.  (Signed by Michael Collins.)

Chandler, David.  Life on Mars.  New York: E. P. Dutton, 1979.  Explores the possibility of life on Mars.

Gibbons, John, et al.  Exploring Moon and Mars: Choices for the Nation.  Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991.  A report by the Office of Technology Assessment.

Glasstone, Samuel.  The Book of Mars.  Washington, D.C.: NASA, 1968.

Hoagland, Richard.  The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever.  Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1987.  Account of the face and the Cydonia region.

Joels, Kerry.  The Mars One Crew Manual.  New York: Ballantine Books, 1985.  Mars mission concepts.

Matsunaga, Spark.  The Mars Project.  New York: Hill and Wang, 1986.  Senator Matsunaga calls for a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to Mars.

McKay, Christopher, ed.  The Case for Mars II.  San Diego: Univelt, 1985.  Proceedings of a conference held July 10-14, 1984.

Miles, Frank and Booth, Nicholas.  Race to Mars.  New York: Harper & Row, 1988.  Mars mission concepts. 

Mutch, Tim, et al.  The Martian Landscape.  Washington, D.C.: NASA, 1978.  Images of Mars compiled by the Viking Lander Imaging Team.

O'Leary, Brian.  Mars 1999: Exclusive Preview of the U.S.-Soviet Manned Mission.
Harrisburg: Stackpole Books, 1987.  

Pittendrigh, Colin, et al, eds.  Biology and the Exploration of Mars.  Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences National Research Council, 1966.  Report of a study held under the auspices of the Space Science Board.

Powers, Robert.  Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986.  Mars mission concepts.

Reiber, Duke, ed.  The NASA Mars Conference.  San Diego: Univelt, 1988.  Proceedings of a conference held July 21-23, 1986.

Robinson, Kim Stanley.  Red Mars.  New York: Bantam Books, 1993.  Fiction.

Stoker, Carol, ed.  The Case for Mars III.  San Diego: Univelt, 1989.  Proceedings of a conference held July 18-22, 1987.

Wilford, John.  Mars Beckons.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.  Mars overview and mission concepts.

Just Purchased:

Stoker, Carol, et al, eds.  Strategies for Mars: A Guide to Human Exploration.  San Diego: Univelt, 1996.   Mars mission concepts.

Zubrin, Robert.  The Case for Mars.  New York: The Free Press, 1996.  Mars mission concepts.


Books (others):

Alexander, Kent.  The Space Station.  New York: Gallery Books, 1988.

Armstrong, Neil, et al.  Pioneering the Space Frontier.  New York: Bantam Books, 1986.
The report of the National Commission on Space.

Atkinson, Joseph, and Shafritz, Jay.  The Real Stuff.  New York: Praeger Publishers, 1985.  History of NASA's Recruitment Program.

Bova, Ben and Bell, Trudy, eds.  Closeup: New Worlds.  New York: St. Martins Press, 1977.  Discussions of the solar system by science fiction writers who are scientists.

Collins, Michael.  Liftoff.  New York: Grover Press, 1988.  Account of America's space program.

Connors, Mary.  Human Requirements for Extended Spaceflight.  Washington, D.C.: NASA, 1985.

Clark, Phillip.  The Soviet Manned Space Program.  New York: Orion Books, 1988.

Freeman, Michael.  Space Traveller's Handbook: Every man's comprehensive manual to space flight.  New York: Sovereign Books, 1979.

Gray, Henry.  Gray's Anatomy.  Great Britain: Chancellor Press, 1985.

Hardy, James, et al, eds.  Hardy's Textbook of Surgery.  Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1988.

Hurt, Harry.  For All Mankind.  New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988.  Account of the first ten Apollo missions.

Joels, Kerry, et al.  The Space Shuttle Operator's Manual.  New York: Ballantine Books, 1988.

John, E, and Dewaard, Nancy.  History of NASA.  New York: Exeter Books, 1984.

Jones, Tom and Shepard, W. C.  A Manual of Surgical Anatomy.  Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1945.

Kerrod, Robin.  Living in Space.  New York: Crescent Books, 1986.

Lovell, Jim and Kluger, Jeffrey.  Apollo 13.  New York: Pocket Books, 1994.  

Mailer, Norman.  Of a Fire on the Moon.  Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1969.
Account of Apollo 11.

Nicogossian, Arnauld and Parker, James.  Space Physiology and Medicine.  Washington, D.C.: NASA, 1982.

Von Braun, Werner and Ordway, Frederick.  History of Rocketry & Space Travel.  New York: Thomas Y. Cowell Company, 1966.

Wentzel, Donat.  The Restless Sun.  Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.

Wolfe, Tom.  The Right Stuff.  New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979.  Account of the first seven.  (Signed by Chuck Yeager.)

Yenne, Bill.  The Astronauts: The First 25 Years of Manned Space Flight.  New York: Exeter Books, 1986.

Yenne, Bill, et al, eds.  Interplanetary Spacecraft.  New York: Exeter Books, 1988.


Papers, Reports, and Pamphlets:

Doody, Dave and Stephan, George.  Basics of Space Flight: Learners' Workbook.  JPL, 1993.

Manned Mars Missions: Working Group Papers (two volumes).  NASA M001 & M002, 1986.  Mars mission concepts.  

Ride, Sally.  Leadership and America's Future in Space.  NASA, 1987.

The Soviet Space Challenge.  Department of Defense, 1987.

Spacesuit Guidebook.  NASA PED-117.

Steinberg, Florence.  Aboard the Space Shuttle.  NASA EP-169, 1980.


Periodicals:

Ad Astra - The National Space Society

Aviation Week & Space Technology

The Mars Underground News - The Planetary Society

The Planetary Report - The Planetary Society 


Internet:

sci.space.science, moderated newsgroup

sci.space.tech, moderated newsgroup

Jenks, Ken.  Humans in Space, Web site, Johnson Space Center, 1995.

Other Web sites


Videos

Landing on Mars.  Cambridge: NASA, 1987.  Account of the Viking mission.  

Together to Mars.  Burbank: The Planetary Society, 1987.  Discussion of a joint U.S.-Soviet manned Mars mission.