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.