Brief Reference Materials:

• NASA History Fact Sheet: a very broad five-page overview of NASA’s forty-five years.
• Defining events for NASA: chronologically organized.
• Bibliography covering Sputnik, NASA’s founding, and the early years of the space age.

Selected Monographs and Books:

• The Legislative Origins of NASA: Proceedings of an Oral History Workshop (Monograph in Aerospace History No. 8). This is available in text-only PDF file or a large (8-Mb) PDF file with graphics.
• NASA’s Origins and the Dawn of the Space Age (Monograph in Aerospace History No. 10).
• Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Forty Years of U.S. Human Spaceflight Symposium (NASA SP-2002-4107).