A Summary of Major NASA Launches, October 1, 1958–December 31, 1989, KSC Historical Report No. (KHR-1), June 1992.
G. A. Soffen and C. W. Snyder, "The First Viking Mission to Mars," Science 193, no. 4255 (August 27, 1976): 759–766.
Paolo Ulivi and David M. Harland, Robotic Exploration of the Solar System, Part 1: The Golden Age 1957–1982 (Chichester, UK: Springer-Praxis, 2007).
Paolo Ulivi and David M. Harland, Robotic Exploration of the Solar System, Part 2: Hiatus and Renewal 1983–1996 (Chichester, UK: Springer-Praxis, 2007).
Andrew Wilson, The Eagle Has Wings: The Story of American Space Exploration, 1945–1975 (London, UK: British Interplanetary Society, 1982).
Andrew Wilson, Solar System Log (London, UK: Jane's Publishing Company Limited, 1987).
Russian Language
N. G. Babakin, A. N. Banketov, and V. N. Smorkalov, G. N. Babakin: zhizn' i deyatel'nost' [G. N. Babakin: Life and Activities] (Moscow: Adamant, 1996).
V. P. Glushko, ed., Kosmonavtika: entsiklopediya [Cosmonautics: Encyclopedia] (Moscow: Sovetskaya entsiklopediya, 1985).
M. V. Keldysh, ed., Tvorcheskoye naslediye akademika Sergeya Pavlovicha Koroleva: izbrannyye trudy i dokumenty [The Creative Legacy of Sergey Pavlovich Korolev: Selected Works and Documents] (Moscow: Nauka, 1980).
S. S. Kryukov, Izbrannyye raboti: iz lichnogo arkhiva [Selected Works: From the Personal Archive] (Moscow: MGTU im. N. E. Baumana, 2010).
K. Lantratov, "'Opozdavshiy' lunnyy grunt" ["The 'Late' Lunar Soil"] Novosti kosmonavtiki no. 15 (1994): 41–43.
K. Lantratov, "25 let Lunokhodu-1" ["25 Years for Lunokhod-1"] Novosti kosmonavtiki no. 23 (1995): 79-83 and no. 24 (1995): 70–79.
K. Lantratov, "Na Mars!" ["On Mars!"] Novosti kosmonavtiki no. 20 (1996): 53–72 and no. 21 (1996): 41–51.
I. L. Shevalev, Shest' let i vsya zhizn' konstruktora G. N. Babakina: vospominaniya otechestvennykh issledovateley kosmosa [Six Years and the Full Life of Designer G. N. Babakin: Recollections of a Native Space Researcher] (Khimki: NPO im. S. A. Lavochkina, 2004).
S. S. Sokolov [S. S. Kryukov], "Sovetskiye avtomaticheskiye mezhplanetnyye stantsii issleduyut Mars" [Soviet automatic interplanetary stations research Mars], Vestnik akademicheskii nauk sssr 10 (1974): 21–38.
Unofficial Websites
"Pioneer 10 Position and Data," https://theskylive.com/pioneer10-tracker "Pioneer 11 Position and Data," https://theskylive.com/pioneer11-tracker "STL On-line Archive," http://www.sdfo.org/stl/pioneer02.php . "Venera: The Soviet Exploration of Venus," http://mentallandscape.com/V_Venus.htm .
Online Fora
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About the Author
Asif A. Siddiqi is a Professor of History at Fordham University in New York. He specializes in the history of science and technology and modern Russian history, having received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004. He has written extensively on a variety of topics related to the history of science and technology, especially on the social and cultural dimensions of the Russian fascination with the cosmos. His most recent book was The Rockets' Red Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857–1957 (Cambridge University Press, 2010), exploring the co-production of technology and culture in Russian society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that led to the launch of Sputnik. His earlier book, Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945–1974 (NASA SP-2000-4408, 2000) was the first major scholarly work on Cold War–era Soviet space achievements. He is currently working on several book projects including one on the Stalinist Gulag and another on the early history of the Indian space program. In 2016, he received the Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for a projected work on a global history of space exploration entitled "Departure Gates: Histories of Spaceflight on Earth."
The NASA History Series
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