DOCUMENT COLLECTIONS
Hampton, VA. Langley Research Center. Floyd L. Thompson Papers.
-. Milton Ames Collection.
-. Record Group A181-1. Correspondence Files.
-. Record Group A181-1. Special Files.
Suitland, MD. National Archives and Records Administration. Record Group 255. NACA Records.
Wallops Island, VA. Wallops Flight Facility. Records Collection.
Washington, D.C. National Aeronautics and Space Administration History Office. Biography File.
-. Congressional Records Collection.
-. NASA Administrators File.
-. NASA Centers File.
-. NASA Chronologic File.
-. NASA Headquarters File.
-. Organization and Management Collection.
-. Project Files.
Washington, D.C. National Air and Space Museum. Space History Collection.
INTERVIEWS
Floyd, James C. Interview. 19 April 1994.
Milliner, Joyce B. Interview. 25 January 1994.
Robbins, Joseph E. Interview. 11 January 1994.
Spinak, Abraham D.; McGoogan, Marvin W.; and Duffy, Robert T. Interview. 21 December 1993.
BOOKS
Anderson, Frank W. Jr. Orders of Magnitude: A History of NACA and NASA, 1915-1980. Washington, D.C.: NASA, 1981.
Augenstein, Bruno W. Evolution of U.S. Military Space Program, 1945-1960: Some Key Events in Study, Planning, and Program Development. Santa Monica, CA.: Rand Corp., 1982.
Brooks, Courtney G.; Grimwood, James M.; and Swenson, Loyd S. Jr. Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft. Washington, D.C.: NASA, 1979.
Bulkeley, Rip. The Sputniks Crisis and Early United States Space Policy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
Coletta, Paolo E., ed. United States Navy and Marine Corps Bases, Domestic. West Port, CT.: Greenwood Press, 1977.
Collins, Martin J., and Fries, Sylvia D., eds. A Spacefaring Nation: Perspectives on American Space History and Policy. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.
Corliss, William R. NASA Sounding Rockets, 1958-1968: An Historical Summary. Washington D.C.: NASA, 1971.
Davies, Merton E., and Harris, William R. RAND's Role in the Evolution of Balloon and Satellite Observation Systems and Related U.S. Space Technology. Santa Monica, CA.: RAND Corp., 1988.
Ertel, Ivan D., and Morse, Mary Louise. The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology. Vol 1: Through November 7, 1962. Washington D.C.: NASA 1969.
Ezell, Linda Neuman. NASA Historical Data Book. Vol 2: Programs and Projects, 1958-1968. Washington D.C.: NASA, 1988.
-. NASA Historical Data Book. Vol 3: Programs and Projects, 1969-1978. Washington D.C.: NASA, 1988.
Gilruth, Robert R. "From Wallops Island to Project Mercury." In History of Rocketry and Astronautics. American Astronautical Society History Series, Vol 7, part 2. San Diego, CA.: American Astronautical Society, 1986.
Glennan, T. Keith. The First Years of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Events and Impressions as Recalled by T. Keith Glennan, 1st Administrator of NASA. Cleveland: by the Author, 1964.
Green, Constance McL., and Lomask, Milton. Vanguard: A History. Washington D.C.: NASA, 1970.
Hallion, Richard P. On The Frontier: Flight Research at Dryden, 1946-1981. Washington D.C.: NASA, 1984.
Hansen, James R. Engineer in Charge: A History of Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, 1917-1958. Washington D.C.: NASA, 1987.
Hartman, Edwin P. Adventures in Research: A History of Ames Research Center, 1940-1965. Washington D.C.: NASA, 1970.
Hirsh, Richard, and Trento, Joseph J. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration. New York: Praeger, 1973.
Kash, Don E. The Politics of Space Cooperation. West Lafayette, IN.: Purdue Research Foundation, 1967.
Killian, James R. Jr. Sputnik, Scientists, and Eisenhower: A Memoir of the First Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 1977.
Kistiakowski, George B. A Scientist at the White House: The Private Diary of President Eisenhower's Special Assistant for Science and Technology. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1976.
Levine, Arnold S. Managing NASA in the Apollo Era. Washington D.C.: NASA, 1982.
Logsdon, John M. The Decision to Go to the Moon: Project Apollo and the National Interest. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 1970.
McCurdy, Howard F. Inside NASA: The Changing Culture of the American Space Program. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
McDougall, Walter A. The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age. New York: Basic Books, 1985.
Moger, Allen W. Virginia: Bourbonism to Byrd, 1870-1925. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1968.
NASA. Astronautics and Aeronautics. Chronology. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, Annual, 1961-1979.
Newell, Homer E. Beyond the Atmosphere: Early Years of Space Science. Washington D.C.: NASA, 1980.
Neustadt, Richard E., and May, Ernest R. Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision Makers. New York: The Free Press, 1986.
Oberg, James E. Red Star in Orbit. New York: Random House, 1981.
Ordway, Frederick I. III, and Sharpe, Mitchell R. The Rocket Team. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1979.
Pisano, Dominic, and Lewis, Cathleen S., eds. Air and Space History: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1988.
Roland, Alex. A Spacefaring People: Perspectives on Early Spaceflight. Washington D.C.: NASA, 1985.
-. Model Research: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1915-1958. Washington D.C.: NASA, 1985.
Rosenthal, Alfred. Venture into Space: Early Years of Goddard Space Flight Center. Washington D.C.: NASA, 1985.
Rosholt, Robert L. An Administrative History of NASA, 1958-1963. Washington D.C.: NASA, 1966.
Schoettle, Enid Curtis Bok. "The Establishment of NASA." In Knowledge and Power: Essays of Science and Government. Edited by Sanford A. Lakoff. New York: The Free Press, 1966.
Shortal, Joseph A. A New Dimension, Wallops Island Flight Test Range: The First Fifteen Years. Washington D.C.: NASA, 1978.
Skoog, A. Ingemar. History of Rocketry and Astronautics. American Astronautical Society History Series, Vol 10. San Diego, CA.: Univelt, Inc., 1990.
Swenson, Loyd S.; Grimwood, James M.; and Alexander, Charles C. This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury. Washington D.C.: NASA, 1966.
United States Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks. Building the Navy's Bases in World War II. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1947.
U.S. President. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States. Washington D.C.: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, 1953- . Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960-61; John F. Kennedy, 1961.
Van Nimmen, Jane; Bruno, Leonard C.; and Rosholt, Robert L. NASA Historical Data Book. Vol 1: NASA Resources 1958-1968. Washington D.C.: NASA, 1988.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Hetherington, Norriss S. "Winning the Initiative: NASA and the U.S. Space Science Program." Prologue 7 (1975): 99-107.
Koppes, Clayton B. "The Militarization of the American Space Program: An Historical Perspective." Virginia Quarterly Review 60 (Winter 1984): 1-20.
McDougall, Walter A. "Sputnik, the Space Race, and the Cold War." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 41 (May, 1985): 20-25.
Mack, Pamela E. "Space History." Technology and Culture 30 (1989): 657- 665.