Realizing Tomorrow - The Path to Private Spaceflight

Nearly forty years passed between the Apollo moon landings, the grandest accomplishment of a government-run space program, and the Ansari X PRIZE-winning flights of SpaceShipOne, the greatest achievement of a private space program. Now, as we hover on the threshold of commercial spaceflight, authors Chris Dubbs and Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom look back at how we got to this point.

The Complete Book of Spaceflight - From Apollo 1 to Zero Gravity

A commanding encyclopedia of the history and principles of spaceflight––from its humble beginnings to its likely future

Human Spaceflight (Frontiers in Space)

"Human Spaceflight" explores the epoch journeys of human beings as they first ventured beyond Earth's atmosphere, starting in the early 1960s, and traveled into outer space. One of the most memorable of these daring missions occurred on July 20, 1969, when American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on another world.