awesome-space-books

awesome-space

links to online resources

aero-structures

some useful aerospace engineering links

. W. J. Larson and J. R. Wertz (Editors). Microcosm Press, 1999. ISBN

. Harland, Shayler, Lorenz. 2005. ISBN

. J.R. Wertz. Microcosm, 2001. ISBN

. Claudio Maccone. Springer, 2009. ISBN

An old and unmaintained version of

. Bong Wie. AIAA, 1998. ISBN

. (2nd ed.). Peter H. Zipfel. AIAA, 2007 ISBN

. Leonardo Mazzini. Springer, 2016. ISBN

. B.D. Tapley, B.E. Schutz, G.H. Born. New York, Elsevier, 2004. ISBN

. Hoots, Roehrich. The foundational work on General Perturbations theory used in the SGP4 propagator for TLE (Two Line Element) data

, Koon, Lo, Marsden & Ross, 2006

Paul Zarchan, Howard Musoff, Frank K. Lu. (3rd ed.) AIAA, 2009. ISBN

. Howard Curtis, 2005. ISBN

. John R. London III, Lt Col, USAF. Research Report No. AU-ARI-93-8, Air University Press, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, October 1994. Available

. Dieter K. Huzel and David H. Huang.

. G.P. Sutton & O. Biblarz. John Wiley & Sons, 2001

. NASA, 1972. SP-194. Harrje D.T., Reardon F.H

. Dan M. Goebel, Ira Katz

Rocketdyne Technical Training publication that covers basic rocket equations in a simplified manner. 'Annoying page-at-a-time viewer but a valuable resource.'

Defines most commonly used words used in discussing chemical rocket systems. (Link changed to Wayback version for safety against possible NTRS purges)

. David G. Gilmore (ed.) AIAA, 2002. ISBN

. Ed.by Hamid Hemmati. JPL, 2005

. Joseph H. Yuen (Ed.), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 1982, (JPL Publication 82-76) Available

. Heinrich Klinkrad. 2006. ISBN

. NASA, 2008 (expired in 2013). Still

. Daniel Hastings & Henry Garrett. Cambridge Univ.Press, 1996. ISBN

COSPAR

. John J. Bertin. AIAA, 1994. ISBN

. Roger D. Launius, Dennis R. Jenkins, NASA

. Lt.-Col. Kerry D. Hicks, 2009. ( )

. Thomas Uhlig, Florian Sellmaier, Michael Schmidhuber. Springer, 2014. ISBN

. NASA, 1996. Available in (CAUTION: NTRS - files are prone to disappearance - use Wayback Machine if 404'ed)

(2012 revision, valid through 2016)

(1977)

: Links to .pdf copies of Shuttle and Station crew procedures and training manuals

: Contains good descriptions and schematics of ISS systems, as well as descriptions of ISS operations and training. Written from a flight control viewpoint

, Leroy J. Krzycki, Rocketlab / China Lake, CA., 1967

John D Clarke:

NASA:

Boris Tchertok. Rockets and People. Vol.1: , ,

NASA History Office books ( )

Carey McCleskey. (2005)

(NASA, 2011)

from Ron Burkey

, Roger E. Bilstein. 1980

, ANSER, 1993

Energiya-Buran: The soviet space shuttle. Bart Hendrickx, Bert Vis. Springer, 2007. ISBN

, George Dyson. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2002. ISBN

. Available

. A highly detailed reference on Space Shuttle systems from Rockwell International, one year into the flight program. . NASA has a full HTML version of the 1988 revision online but it omits all the illustrations

Part of the "crash book" issued to rescue personnel in the early parts of the shuttle program, contains highly detailed drawings of the Orbiter exterior and some interior systems. Sadly incomplete. (h/t OrganicMarble)

Downloadable PDFs from the National Research Council:

(SA-503 manual)

&

as of 2007-03-04

as of 2013-06-20

as of 2012-03

Mission planning guide Rev.7 from ILS

an archive copy (1999) from GlobalSecurity in separate chapters

(final version, 2011)

2001. You can also contact the manufacturer

as of 2005

archived at Wayback Machine

(Rev.D User guide, December 2012)

as of 2011-06-16

a historical copy from Web Archive as of 2014-07-02. Merger with ATK did not leave stones unturned

(from SpaceX)

H3 (a planned Japanese 4t - to - SSO launcher with , subsidizing future ICBM conversion potential)