United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Institutional History

Abstract

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was founded on October 1, 1958 to "research into the problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for other purposes." Project Mercury (1958-1963) was NASA's first high-profile program involving human spaceflight. Project Gemini (1965-1966) sent two astronauts into space at a time to practice space operations. Project Apollo (1961-1975) was tasked with exploring the moon. In 1981, NASA began to use space shuttles, which could take-off vertically and glide to an unpowered airplane-like landing. NASA has also launched a series of probes and satellites to explore the Moon, the planets, and other areas of the solar system. In the field of aeronautics, NASA's X-15 program of the 1960s involved a rocket-powered airplane that flew above the atmosphere and then glided back to Earth unpowered, giving researchers useful information about supersonic aeronautics. NASA researchers have also studied flight maneuverability on high-speed aircraft.

Administrators

1958-61, T. Keith Glennan.

1961-68, James Webb.

1968-70, Thomas Paine.

1971-77, James Fletcher.

1977-81, Robert Frosch.

1981-85, James Beggs.

1986-89, James Fletcher.

1989-92, Richard Truly.

1992-2001, Daniel Goldin.

2001-05, Sean O'Keefe.

2005-09, Michael Griffin.

2009-present, Charles Bolden.

Important Dates

1958 – 1962Robert T. Jones was on staff.

1958 – 1963Project Mercury.

1958 – 1965Hugh Dryden was on staff.

October 1, 1958National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was founded, Washington (D.C.).

1960 – 1963William Kaula was on staff.

1960 – 1967Tony Maxworthy was on staff.

1961 – 1975Project Apollo.

May 5, 1961Alan B. Shepherd, Jr. became the first American to fly into space on a fifteen-minute suborbital mission.

1962 – 1963John Marburger III was on staff.

February 20, 1962John H. Glenn, Jr. became the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth.

1965 – 1966Project Gemini.

June 3, 1965Edward H. White, Jr. became the first U.S. astronaut to conduct a spacewalk during the Gemini 4 mission.

December 24, 1968 – December 25, 1968The Apollo 8 mission orbited the moon.

July 20, 1969Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr. landed on the moon.

1970 – 1996Robert T. Jones was on staff.

1971 – 1977James Fletcher was on staff.

1972 – 1978The first three Landsat satellites were launched (1972, 1975, 1978), which transmitted back to Earth complex data streams that could be converted into colored pictures of Earth.

1973NASA's Skylab program began, launching an orbital space workshop.

1974 – presentJohn Mather has been on staff.

1975NASA cooperated with the Soviet Union to achieve the first international human spaceflight, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP).

1975 – 1982Viking Mission to Mars.

1977Launch of Voyagers 1 and 2 to conduct a "Grand Tour" of the solar system.

1977 – 1981Robert Frosch was on staff.

1977 – 1994William Raney was on staff.

1978 – 1980Parviz Moin was on staff.

1981 – presentNeil Gehrels has been on staff.

April 12, 1981First mission to use a space shuttle (STS-1).

1982 – 1986Parviz Moin was on staff.

June 18, 1983Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space (STS-7).

1984 – 2004Charles Bennett was on staff.

1986 – 1989James Fletcher was on staff.

January 28, 1986Explosion of the Challenger space shuttle.

November 18, 1989Launch of Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE).

1990Launch of Hubble Space Telescope.

1994 – 1996Victoria Kaspi was on staff.

July 4, 1997The Mars Pathfinder spacecraft landed on Mars and explored the surface of the planet with its miniature rover, Sojourner.

November 20, 1998Launch of the International Space Station (ISS).

February 1, 2003Explosion of the Columbia space shuttle.

2004The X-43A airplane used scramjet technology to fly at ten times the speed of sound, setting a world's record for air-breathing aircraft.

January 19, 2006Launch of New Horizons interplanetary space probe.

March 7, 2009Launch of Kepler Spacecraft to discover other Earth-sized planets orbiting other stars.

Places

Headquarters

Washington (D.C.)

Subjects

Aeronautics.

Aerospace engineering.

Astronomers.

Astronomy.

Astrophysics.

Geophysics.

Physics -- Public relations.

Citations

Historical information from "A Brief History of NASA" website (http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/factsheet.htm).

Relationships

People

Employees & Officers

Agnew, Harold M.

Member, Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel.

Ahlers, G. (Günter)

Chair, Low Temperature Science Steering Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Chair, Fundamental Physics Steering Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Member, Microgravity Research Advisory Subcommittee; Member, Life and Microgravity Science and Applications Advisory Committee and Chair, Fundamental Physics Discipline Working Group.

Beggs, James Montgomery

Administrator.

Bennett, Charles L. (Charles Leonard), 1956-

Astrophysicist, Goddard Space Flight Center; Acting Head, Infrared Astrophysics Branch, Goddard Space Flight Center; Head, Infrared Astrophysics Branch, Goddard Space Flight Center; and Member, Cosmic Background Explorer Science Working Group.

Bolden, Charles, 1946-

Administrator.

Chamberlain, Joseph W. (Joseph Wyan), 1928-2004

Director, Lunar Science Institute.

Cohen, Morrel H.

Member, Advisory Panel on Electrophysics.

Davis, Stephen H., 1939-

Member, Fluid Physics Committee of the Universities Space Research Guidance Committee, Member, Microgravity Science and Applications Subcommittee of the Space Science and Applications Advisory Committee, Chair, Discipline Working Group on Fluid Dynamics and Transport Phenomena, and Member, Discipline Working Group on Fluid Dynamics and Transport Phenomena.

Dicke, Robert H. (Robert Henry)

Member and Chair, Committee on Physics.

Donahue, Thomas M.

Chair, Science Steering Group, Pioneer Venus Mission and Member, Stratospheric Research Advisory Committee.

Drake, James (James F.)

Member, Review Panel on Space Physics Theory Program.

Dryden, Hugh L. (Hugh Latimer), 1898-1965

Deputy Administrator.

Fletcher, James Chipman, 1919-1991

Administrator (served twice).

Friedman, Herbert, 1916-2000

Member, Astronomy Missions Board, and Member, Space Program Advisory Council.

Frosch, Robert A. (Robert Alan), 1928-

Administrator.

Gehrels, Neil

Research Associate, Goddard Space Flight Center; Astrophysicist, Goddard Space Flight Center; Chief, Astroparticle Physics Laboratory, Goddard Space Flight Center; Project Scientist, Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO); Member, High Energy Astrophysics Management Operations Working Group; Member, Structure and Evolution of the Universe Subcommittee; Co-Chair, Gamma Ray Astronomy Program Working Group; Co-Chair, Gamma Ray Astronomy Program Working Group; Chair, Commission E, Committee on Space Research; Mission Scientist, International Gamma Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL); Principal Investigator, Swift MIDEX Mission; Deputy Project Scientist, Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope (GLAST); and Project Scientist, Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM).

Geller, Margaret J.

Member, Management Operations Working Group for Space Astronomy and Member, Space Station Task Force, Space and Earth Science Advisory Committee.

Giacconi, Riccardo

Principal Investigator, SAS-A (UHURU).

Glennan, Thomas Keith, 1905-1995

Administrator.

Goldin, Daniel Saul, 1940-

Administrator.

Griffin, Michael D. (Michael Douglas), 1949-

Administrator.

Homsy, G. M. (George M.)

Member, Science Board, Physics and Chemistry in Space.

Hopfield, John J.

Member, Tycho Study Group.

Jones, Robert T. (Robert Thomas), 1910-1999

Research Scientist; Senior Staff Scientist; and Research Associate, Ames Research Center.

Kaspi, Victoria Michelle, 1967-

Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC).

Kaula, William M.

Geophysicist and Geodesist, Celestial Mechanics and Planetary Interiors, Goddard Space Flight Center.

Kelly, Mervin Joe

Special Consultant.

Kennel, Charles F., 1939-

Member, Science Advisory Group; Member, Space and Earth Science Advisory Committee; Associate Administrator and Director, Mission to Planet Earth; Member, Advisory Council; and Chair, Advisory Council.

Kraichnan, Robert H., 1928-2008

Consultant.

Marburger, John H., III (John Harmen), 1941-2011

Staff Physicist, Goddard Space Flight Center.

Mather, John C.

National Research Council (NRC) Fellow in Astrophysics, Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Study Scientist, Far IR Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS), Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), Goddard Space Flight Center; Project Scientist, Far IR Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS), Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), Goddard Space Flight Center; Project Scientist, James Webb Space Telescope, Goddard Space Flight Center; and Chief Scientist, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters.

Maxworthy, T. (Tony)

Group Supervisor, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Member, Advisory Committee on Fluid Dynamics; and Consultant, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Moin, Parviz

National Research Council (NRC) Fellow and Research Scientist, Ames Research Center.

Nierenberg, William Aaron, 1919-2000

Chair, Advisory Council.

O'Keefe, Sean, 1956-

Administrator.

Paine, Thomas O., 1921-1992

Administrator.

Peale, Stanton Jerrold

Consultant, Science Advisory Group, Exploration Outer Solar System; Member, Lunar and Planetary Review Panel; Planetary Systems Science Working Group, Lunar and Planetary Science Council.

Post, Richard F.

Member, Advisory Committee, Nuclear Energy Systems.

Press, Frank, 1924-

Consultant; Member, Lunar and Planetary Mission Board.

Price, Paul Buford

Member, Lunar Sample Analysis Planning Team.

Raney, William P.

Chief Engineering; Director, Utilization and Performance Requirements Division; and Assistant Associate Administrator (Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications). Special Assistant to the Associate Administrator (Office of Space Station).

Reines, Frederick, 1918-1998

Member, Electrophysics Advisory Committee.

Seitz, Frederick, 1911-2008

Chair, Space Program Advisory Council.

Simpson, Joanne

Project Scientist, Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission; ; and Chief Scientist for Meteorology, Goddard Space Flight Center; Awarded the William Nordberg Memorial Award for Earth Sciences (1994); the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement (1982).

Smoot, George

Member, Steering Group, Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite.

Townes, Charles H.

Chair of Science and Technology Advisory Committee for Manned Space Flight, Chair of Science Advisory Committee for the Apollo Lunar Landing Program, and member of Space Program Advisory Council.

Truly, Richard

Administrator.

Van Allen, James A. (James Alfred), 1914-2006

Member, Planetary Missions Board.

Vestine, E. H. (Ernest Harry), 1906-1968

Consultant.

Waterman, Alan Tower, 1892-1967

Consultant to the Administrator.

Webb, James E. (James Edwin)

Administrator.

Weiss, Rainer

Member, Physical Science Committee; Member, Management Operations Working Group for Shuttle Astronomy; Member, Management Operations Working Group for Airborne Astronomy; Chair, Panel on Experimental Relativity and Gravitation; Member, Sun Solar System Connection Committee; and Chair, LISA Gravitational Wave Visiting Committee, Goddard Space Flight Center.

Wetherill, George West

Member, Lunar and Planetary Missions Board; Member, Physical Science Committee; Chair, Working Group for the Post-Viking Exploration of Mars; and Member, Board of Visitors, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Will, Clifford M., 1946-

Member, Astrophysics Management Operations Working Group, Astrophysics Council; Member, Science Coordinating Committee for Experimental Gravitation; Member, Theory Panel, Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle; Member, Discipline Working Group, Microgravity Physics; and Chair, Science Advisory Committee, Gravity Probe B.

Associates & Members

Ames, Joseph Sweetman, 1864-1943

Arakawa, Akio

Arnold, James, 1923-

Bacher, Robert F. (Robert Fox), 1905-2004

Baum, William A.

Bergstralh, Jay T.

Bindschadler, R. A. (Robert A.)

Biswas, S. (Sukumar)

Bowhill, S. A.

Brasseur, Guy

Broida, Herbert P.

Brunk, William Edward, 1928-

Busemann, Adolf, 1901-

Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974

Calvin, Melvin, 1911-1997

Cameron, A. G. W. (Alastair Graham Walter), 1925-

Cox, Tony (R. A.)

Dollfus, Audouin

Donnelly, Russell J.

Draper, C. S. (Charles Stark)

DuBridge, Lee A. (Lee Alvin), 1901-1994

Dupree, Andrea K.

Dyson, Freeman J.

Eddy, John A.

El-Baz, Farouk

Emmons, H. W. (Howard W.)

Farman, Joseph Charles

Farquhar, Robert W. (Robert Willard)

Fein, Jay S., 1937-

Field, George B., 1929-

Galperin, Yu. I. (Yuri Ilich), 1932-2001

Garwin, Richard L.

Gent, Alan N.

Awarded the Public Service Medal (1988).

Gold, Thomas

Goldberg, Leo

Golden, Robert L., 1940-1995

Golovin, Nicholas E. (Nicholas Erasmus), 1912-1969

Gordon, William Edwin, 1918-2010

Greenstein, Jesse L. (Jesse Leonard), 1909-2002

Harris, Neil R. P.

Harwit, Martin, 1931-

Herb, R. G. (Raymond George), 1908-1996

Herget, Paul, 1908-

Herrick, Samuel

Hess, Harry Hammond, 1906-1969

Hibbs, Albert R.

Higa, Walter H., 1919-

Hofstadter, Robert, 1915-1990

Hubbard, Harvey H.

Hulst, H. C. van de (Hendrick Christoffel), 1918-

Jeffries, John T.

King, Ivan R.

Kraft, Christopher Columbus, Jr.,

Laporte, Otto, 1902-1971

Lazarus, David, 1921-

Leighton, Robert B.

Littlewood, William

Luyten, Willem Jacob, 1899-1994

MacDonald, Gordon J. (Gordon James), 1929-2002

Maran, Stephen P.

Mark, Hans, 1929-

Marsden, Brian G.

McPeters, Richard

Michel, F. Curtis

Mueller, G. E. (George Edwin), 1918-

Münch, Guido, 1921-

Naugle, John E.

Newell, Homer E. (Homer Edward), 1915-1983

Nier, Alfred O. (Alfred Otto), 1911-1994

O'Dell, C. Robert (Charles Robert), 1937-

Oertel, Goetz Kuno Heinrich, 1934-

Page, Don N.

Peterson, L. E. (Laurence E.), 1931-

Phillips, Samuel C. (Samuel Cochrane),

Pickering, W. H. (William Hayward), 1910-2004

Purser, Paul E.

Pyle, J. A.

Ramaty, R.

Rau, A. R. P. (A. Ravi P.)

Reynolds, Joseph M.

Rhodes, Richard, 1937-

Roman, Nancy Grace, 1925-

Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996

Salisbury, John W.

Salpeter, Edwin E.

Schwarzschild, Martin

Shoemaker, E. M. (Eugene Merle), 1928-1997

Smith, Robert W. (Robert William), 1952-

Sonett, Charles P.

Spiess, Fred Noel, 1919-2006

Spitzer, Lyman, 1914-1997

Stewart, Homer J.

Stone, Edward, 1936-

Tananbaum, Harvey D.

Taylor, Joseph H. (Joseph Hooton)

Thomas, R. H.

Tuck, Adrian F.

Victory, John Francis

Von Braun, Wernher

Von Kármán, Theodore, 1881-1963

Wasserburg, Gerald J. (Gerald Joseph), 1927-

Watson, R. T.

Weakley, Charles Enright

Webster, David Locke, 1888-1976

Werner, Michael W.

Whipple, Fred L. (Fred Lawrence), 1906-2004

Wilhelms, Don E.

Wilkinson, David T.

Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964

Wolfenstein, L. (Lincoln)

Wood, Frank Bradshaw, 1915-

Wood, John A., 1932-

Zahm, Albert Francis, 1862-

Institutions

Institutional Hierarchy

Ames Research Center

George C. Marshall Space Flight Center

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)

John C. Stennis Space Center

John F. Kennedy Space Center

Langley Research Center

Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center

NASA Glenn Research Center

NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center

United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

Wallops Flight Center

Collaborators

Johns Hopkins University. Applied Physics Laboratory

Collaborated on numerous projects.

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

Jointly sponsored a symposium on the Earth's Magnetosphere.

Associates

Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Department of Astronomy.

Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Department of Geological Sciences.

University of Iowa. Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Utah

University of Wisconsin--Madison. Department of Astronomy

Resources

Archival Resources

Author

David Denault papers, 1969-1977.

Library. Special Collections and Archives.

University of Idaho

Moscow, ID 83853, USA.

James E. Webb papers, 1928-1982.

Harry S. Truman Library

Independence, MO 64050, USA

NASA historical documents.

Fondren Library. Woodson Research Center.

Rice University

P. O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77001, USA

NASA selected documents, 1953-1962.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

Abilene, KS 67410, USA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration addition to records, 1970-1981.

Southeast Region.

National Archives and Records Administration

1557 St. Joseph Avenue, East Point, GA 30344, USA

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Mount Hopkins Department records, 1966-1970.

Smithsonian Institution. Archives.

Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507, 600 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20024-2520, USA

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Project Celescope records, 1958-1968.

Smithsonian Institution. Archives.

Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507, 600 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20024-2520, USA

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Radio and Geoastronomy Division records, 1978-1983.

Smithsonian Institution. Archives.

Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507, 600 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20024-2520, USA

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory records of the Assistant Director (Science), 1961-1973.

Smithsonian Institution. Archives.

Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507, 600 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20024-2520, USA

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Satellite Tracking Program records, 1957-1983.

Smithsonian Institution. Archives.

Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507, 600 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20024-2520, USA

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Satellite Tracking Station program records, 1953-1968.

Smithsonian Institution. Archives.

Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507, 600 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20024-2520, USA

Television Infra-Red Observation Satellite (Tiros) documents, 1959-1970.

Archives Division

Smithsonian Institution. National Air and Space Museum

MRC 322, Washington, DC, 20560, USA

U. S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration addition to records, 1918-1945.

Suitland Reference Branch

National Archives and Records Administration

Suitland, MD USA

Subject

A walk in space: recollections by Charles Sonett [manuscript], 2006.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

A. G. W. Cameron papers, 1959-1983.

Archives. Pusey Library

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Albert Francis Zahm papers, 1880s-1950s.

Archives.

University of Notre Dame

607 Hesburgh Library, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA

Albert R. Hibbs papers, 1884-2009 (bulk 1931-1999).

Henry E. Huntington Library

1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108, USA

Alfred O. Nier papers, 1930-1966.

University Archives

University of Minnesota

Andersen Library, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Ames Research Center archives reference collection, 1939-1998.

Ames Research Center. Ames History Office

National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA.

Ames Research Center publications, 1958-2000.

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305, USA

Apollo 17 Surface Electrical Properties Experiment records, 1970-1973.

Institute Archives and Special Collections

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Charles E. Weakley papers, 1945-1972.

Archives.

Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace

Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

Charles F. Kennel papers, 1970-2006.

Mandeville Special Collections Library

University of California, San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

Charles Stark Draper certificates, 1941-1978.

Archives. Division.

Smithsonian Institution. National Air and Space Museum

MRC 322, Washington, DC, 20560, USA

Christopher C. Kraft papers, 1941-1998.

Carol M. Newman Library. Special Collections Department

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

P. O. Box 90001, Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001, USA

Collections relating to history of physics and allied sciences.

Riksarkivet.

Stockholm, Sweden

David Lazarus papers, 1945-1987.

University Archives

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

David S. Evans papers, 1391-2004.

Center for American History. University Archives

University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX 78713, USA

David Wilkinson papers, 1957-2002 (bulk 1961-2001).

Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

Princeton University

1 Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

Don L. Lind papers, 1963-1994.

Marriott Library. Special Collections

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA

Dudley A. Saville papers, 1976-2006.

The Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library of Chemical History.

Chemical Heritage Foundation

315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2702, USA

E. M. Shoemaker papers, 1950-circa 1972.

Pacific Southwest Region

National Archives and Records Administration

24000 Avila Rd, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677, USA

Edward C. Stone papers, 1976-2001.

Archives.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

JPL Archive, MS 512-110, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099, USA

Edwin Bidwell Wilson aeronautics and aerodynamics collection, 1904-1930.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

F. Curtis Michel Scientist-Astronaut papers, 1951-1981 (bulk 1963-1974).

Fondren Library. Woodson Research Center.

Rice University

P. O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77001, USA

Farouk El-Baz collection on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Earth Observation and Photography Experiment, 1975.

Archives Division

Smithsonian Institution. National Air and Space Museum

MRC 322, Washington, DC, 20560, USA

Farouk El-Baz papers, 1965-1983.

Smithsonian Institution. Archives.

Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507, 600 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20024-2520, USA

Fragments of a history of the early years of the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii [manuscript], 2006.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Frank Press papers, 1945-1997.

Institute Archives and Special Collections

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Fred Lawrence Whipple papers, circa 1927-2004.

Smithsonian Institution. Archives.

Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507, 600 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20024-2520, USA

Fred Noel Spiess papers, addition (Collection 2009-22), 1945-2009.

Mandeville Special Collections Library

University of California, San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

G. E. Mueller papers, 1876-1997 (bulk 1935-1995).

Manuscript Division

Library of Congress

James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA

George B. Field papers, 1968-1983.

Smithsonian Institution. Archives.

Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507, 600 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20024-2520, USA

Gerald Wasserburg papers, 1927-2011.

Institute Archives

California Institute of Technology

1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

H. H. Hess papers, 1932-1969.

Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

Princeton University

1 Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

Hans Mark papers, 1961-1987.

Center for American History. University Archives

University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX 78713, USA

Hawaii Office of the Governor records of John Burns, 1962-1974.

Iolani Palace Grounds

Hawaii State Archvies

Honolulu, HI 96813 USA

Herbert Friedman papers, circa 1940-2000.

Library.

American Philosophical Society

105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA

Herbert P. Broida papers, 1957-1979.

Library. Dept. of Special Collections

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA

Hildegard Korf Kallmann-Bijl collection, 1947-1968.

Smithsonian Institution. National Air and Space Museum

MRC 322, Washington, DC, 20560, USA

History of Physics from Pythagoras to Higgs [sound recording], 2016 April 17.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Homer Edward Newell, Jr. speech transcripts, 1960-1973.

Archives Division

Smithsonian Institution. National Air and Space Museum

MRC 322, Washington, DC, 20560, USA

Howard Seifert papers, 1960-1977.

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305, USA

Howard W. Emmons papers, 1942-1946.

Archives. Pusey Library

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Hugh L. Dryden papers, 1908-1966.

Special Collections. Milton S. Eisenhower Library.

Johns Hopkins University

3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Irving Krick papers, 1921-1996.

University Research Library. Department of Special Collections

University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA 90024-1575, USA

James Arnold and Fred Peters lecture [sound recording], May 14, 1997.

Mandeville Special Collections Library

University of California, San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

James Arnold papers, 1946-1998.

Mandeville Special Collections Library

University of California, San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

James Beggs papers, 1959-1981.

Archives.

Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace

Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

James C. Elms collection, 1959-1974.

Archives. Division.

Smithsonian Institution. National Air and Space Museum

MRC 322, Washington, DC, 20560, USA

James Chipman Fletcher papers, 1933-1992.

Marriott Library. Special Collections

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA

James M. Cannon papers, 1974-1979.

Gerald R. Ford Library

1000 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

James Van Allen papers, 1938-1990.

Main Library. Archives

University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA 52242-1420, USA

Jet Propulsion Laboratory archives collections, 1936-1990.

Archives.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

JPL Archive, MS 512-110, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099, USA

Jet Propulsion Laboratory historical collection, 1936-1976.

Archives.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

JPL Archive, MS 512-110, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099, USA

John A. Wood papers, 1950-2005.

Smithsonian Institution. Archives.

Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507, 600 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20024-2520, USA

John Francis Victory papers, 1914-1974.

Library. Special Collections Branch

United States Air Force Academy

Colorado Springs, CO 80840-5701, USA

John Vernon Becker papers, 1945-1986.

Carol M. Newman Library. Special Collections Department

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

P. O. Box 90001, Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001, USA

John Wright Freeman papers, 1965-1979.

Fondren Library. Woodson Research Center.

Rice University

P. O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77001, USA

Joseph M. Reynolds papers, 1924-1990 (bulk 1962-1985).

Hill Memorial Library. Special Collections. Lousiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections

Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge, LA, USA

Joseph Percival Allen, IV papers, 1967-1999.

Archives of DePauw University and Indiana United Methodism. Roy O. West Library.

DePauw University.

Greencastle, IN 46135, USA

Joseph Sweetman Ames papers, 1888-1968.

Special Collections. Milton S. Eisenhower Library.

Johns Hopkins University

3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Kenneth Fox papers, 1970-1990.

Special Collections Library

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

James D. Hoskins Library, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA

Kung Chie Yeh papers, 1940s-2002.

University Archives

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

Laurence Peterson papers, 1954-1995.

Mandeville Special Collections Library

University of California, San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

Lee A. DuBridge papers, 1932-1986.

Institute Archives

California Institute of Technology

1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Lélio Itapuambyra Gama papers, 1897-1981.

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Leo Goldberg papers, 1933-1987.

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Lew Allen papers, 1976-1991.

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Martin Harwit papers, 1957-1987.

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Melvin Calvin records, 1950s-1985.

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MIT Office of the President records of Karl Taylor Compton and James Rhyne Killian, 1930-1959.

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Oral history interview with David Morrison, 1999 January 7.

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Oral history interview with Homer J. Stewart, 1982 October to November and 1993 November 3.

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Oral History interview with Robert F. Bacher, 1981, 1983.

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California Institute of Technology

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Oral history interview with Robert H. Thomas, 2009 January 27.

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Oral history interview with Robert S. Cooper, 1993 September 3.

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Oral History interview with William H. Pickering, 1978.

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Oran W. Nicks papers, 1960-1991.

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Texas A&M University.

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Orders of magnitude : a history of the NACA and NASA, 1915-1990 / by Roger E. Bilstein.

Otto Laporte papers, 1926-1970.

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University of Michigan

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Paul Purser papers, 1940-1975.

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President's Science Advisory Committee records, 1957-1961.

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Promised the moon : the untold story of the first women in the space race / Stephanie Nolen.

Rainer Weiss papers, undated.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Raymond G. Herb papers, 1938-1989.

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Reminiscences of a Rolling Stone [autobiography], 1977.

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Published Resources

Author

Proceedings of the Ninth Symposium on Space Nuclear Power Systems : Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 12-16, 1992 / editors, Mohamed S. El-Genk, Mark D. Hoover ; co-sponsored by National Aeronautics and Space Administration ... [et al.] ; in cooperation with American Nuclear Society ... [et al.].

A Spacefaring nation : perspectives on American space history and policy / edited by Martin J. Collins and Sylvia D. Fries.

Aeronautical dictionary, by Frank Davis Adams.

Analysis of interplanetary dust : NASA/LPI Workshop, Houston, TX May 1993 / editors: M.E. Zolensky ... [et al.]

Cosmic gamma rays / Floyd William Stecker Goddard Space Flight Center.

Documents in the history of NASA : an anthology / NASA History Office.

Exploring space with a camera, compiled and edited by Edgar M. Cortright.

Leadership in space : selected speeches of NASA administrator Michael Griffin, May 2005-October 2008 / Michael D. Griffin.

Orders of magnitude : a history of NACA and NASA, 1915-1976 / by Frank W. Anderson, Jr.

Orders of magnitude : a history of NACA and NASA, 1915-1980 / by Frank W. Anderson, Jr.

Paired and interacting galaxies : proceedings of a conference sponsored by the International Astronomical Union, the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and held at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, December 4-7, 1989 / International Astronomical Union Colloquium, no. 124 ; edited by J.W. Sulentic and W.C. Keel, C.M. Telesco.

Physics and astrophysics from a lunar base : first NASA workshop, Stanford, CA, 1989 / editors, A.E. Potter & T.L. Wilson.

Proceedings of Conference on NASA Centers for Commercial Development of Space (NASA CCDS) : Albuquerque Hilton Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 8-12, 1995 / editors Mohamed S. El-Genk, Raymond P. Whitten ; organized by Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies, University of New Mexico ; co-sponsored by Ballistic Missile Defense Organization ... [et al.] ; in cooperation with American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ... [et al.]

Proceedings of the Eighth Symposium on Space Nuclear Power Systems : Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 6-10, 1991 / editors, Mohamed S. El-Genk, Mark D. Hoover ; co-sponsored by National Aeronautics and Space Administration ... [et al.] in cooperation with American Nuclear Society ... [et al.].

Research in NASA history : a guide to the NASA history program.

Sourcebook on the space sciences.

Space research: directions for the future; report of a study by the Space Science Board.

Space science in the twenty-first century : imperatives for the decades 1995 to 2015 : report of the study steering group / Space Science Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources, National Research Council.

Space scientists and engineers: selected biographical and bibliographical listing : 1957-1961.

Space Technology and Applications International Forum--1998 : Albuquerque, NM, January, 1998 / editor, Mohamed S. El-Genk ; co-sponsored by National Aeronautics and Space Administration ... [et al.].

Space Technology and Applications International Forum--2001 : Albuquerque, New Mexico, 11-14 February 2001 / editor, Mohamed S. El-Genk ; [cosponsored by United States Department of Energy [and] National Aeronautics and Space Administration in cooperation with American Astronautical Society ... [et al.] ; organized by Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies, School of Engineering, University of New Mexico].

Space Technology and Applications International Forum--STAIF 2002 : Albuquerque, New Mexico, 3-6 February 2002 / editor, Mohamed S. El-Genk ; [cosponsored by United States Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; in cooperation with American Astronautical Society ... et al. ; organized by Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies].

Space Technology and Applications International Forum--STAIF 2003 : Albuquerque, Mew Mexico, 2-5 February 2003 / editor, Mohamed S. El-Genk ; sponsoring organizations : United States Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

The astrophysics of gravitational wave sources : College Park, Maryland, 24-26 April 2003 / editor, Joan M. Centrella ; sponsoring organizations, NASA ... [et al.].

The First year of HST observations : proceedings of a workshop held at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, 14-16 May 1991 / editors, A.L. Kinney and J.C. Blades.

The state of earth science from space : past progress, future prospects / edited by Ghassem Asrar, David Jon Dokken.

Toward a history of the space shuttle : an annotated bibliography / compiled by Roger D. Launius and Aaron K. Gillette.

Toward a history of the Space Shuttle : an annotated bibliography, part 2 (1992-2011) / compiled by Malinda K. Goodrich ... of the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress.

Tropical rainfall measurements / edited by John S. Theon and Nobuyoshi Fugono.

When biospheres collide : a history of NASA's planetary protection programs / by Michael Meltzer.

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Aiming at targets : the autobiography of Robert C. Seamans, Jr. / Robert C. Seamans, Jr.

An administrative history of NASA, 1958-1963 / [by] Robert L. Rosholt.

Archaeology, anthropology, and interstellar communication / edited by Douglas A. Vakoch.

Astronautics and aeronautics : a chronology / the NASA History Office.

Atmospheric science at NASA : a history / Erik M. Conway.

Bibliography of space books and articles from non-aerospace journals, 1957-1977 / John J. Looney.

Emblems of exploration : logos of the NACA and NASA / by Joseph R. Chambers and Mark A. Chambers, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Communications, Public Outreach Division, History Program Office.

Federal funding of astronomical research / Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Board on Physics and Astronomy and Space Studies Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council.

First among equals : the selection of NASA space science experiments / John E. Naugle.

First five years of NASA : a concise chronology.

Historical origins of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Historical sketch of NASA.

Historical studies in the societal impact of spaceflight / Steven J. Dick, editor.

How NASA builds teams : mission critical soft skills for scientists, engineers, and project teams / Charles J. Pellerin.

Human exploration of space : a review of NASA's 90-day study and alternatives / Committee on Human Exploration of Space, National Research Council.

Inside NASA : high technology and organizational change in the U.S. space program / Howard E. McCurdy.

Insuring the future : the development and diffusion of systems management in the American and European space programs / by Stephen B. Johnson.

Integrating women into the astronaut corps : politics and logistics at NASA, 1972-2004 / Amy E. Foster.

Managing NASA in the Apollo era / Arnold S. Levine.

Mission to Jupiter: a history of the Galileo Project / by Michael Meltzer.

NASA : a history of the U.S. civil space program / Roger D. Launius.

NASA and the space industry / Joan Lisa Bromberg.

NASA engineers and the age of Apollo / Sylvia Doughty Fries.

NASA historical data book, 1958-1978 / various editors

NASA historical data book, volume VII : NASA space systems, space transportation/human spaceflight, and space science 1989-1998 / Judy A. Rumerman.

NASA in the world : fifty years of international collaboration in space / John Krige, Angelina Long Callahan, and Ashok Maharaj.

NASA's first 50 years : historical perspectives / Steven J. Dick, editor.

NASA's first A : aeronautics from 1958 to 2008 / Robert G. Ferguson.

NASA's origins and the dawn of the space age / by David S.F. Portree.

Orders of magnitude : a history of NACA and NASA, 1915-1980 / by Frank W. Anderson, Jr.

Origins of NASA names / Helen T. Wells, Susan H. Whiteley, and Carrie E. Karegeannes.

Powering Apollo : James E. Webb of NASA / W. Henry Lambright.

Selecting the Mercury seven : the search for America's first astronauts / Colin Burgess.

The birth of NASA : the diary of T. Keith Glennan / with an introduction by Roger D. Launius ; edited by J.D. Hunley.

The last of the great observatories : Spitzer and the era of faster, better, cheaper at NASA / George H. Rieke.

We could not fail : the first African Americans in the Space Program / Richard Paul & Steven Moss.

We freeze to please : a history of NASA's icing research tunnel and the quest for flight safety / by William M. Leary.