Teachers

Recommended Reading

General Space Overview

A Man on the Moon
Andrew Chaikin (Viking, New York, 1994)

Apollo - The Race to the Moon
Charles Murray & Catherine Bly Cox (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1989)

Moon Shot - The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
Alan Shepard & Deke Slayton (Turner Publishing, Atlanta, 1994)

First on the Moon - A Voyage With Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin
Gene Farmer & Dora Jane Hamblin (Michael Joseph, London, 1970)

The Last Man on the Moon
Eugene Cernan with Don Davis (St. Martin's Press, New York, 1999)

Korolev - How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon
James Harford (John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1997)

The New Russian Space Programme - From Competition to Collaboration
Brian Harvey (John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1996)

Countdown - A History of Space Flight
T.A. Heppenheimer (John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1997)

Dragonfly - NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir
Bryan Burrough (HarperCollins, New York, 1998)

The Superpower Space Race
Robert Reeves (Plenum Press, New York, 1994)

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Space Technology (2nd Edition)
Kenneth Gatland, et al. (Salamander Books, London, 1989)

The Case for Mars - The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
Robert Zubrin with Richard Wagner (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, New York, 1996)

This New Ocean
William E. Burrows (Random House, New York)

To Rise From Earth: The Complete Guide to Spaceflight (2nd Ed.)
Wayne Lee (Blandford, London, 2000)

Two Sides of the Moon
David Scott and Alexei Leonov with Christine Toomey (Thomas Dunne Books, New York, 2004)

Almost Heaven – The Story of Women in Space
Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles (Basic Books, New York, 2003)

The Once and Future Moon
Paul D. Spudis (Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London, 1996)

 
 

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