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This webpage is a brief overview of some of the online resources available to people researching aeronautics and astronautics. Lists of databases, document collections, and our current journal subscriptions can be found elsewhere on this website.
All items are available at the Headquarters Library, except as noted. NASA Headquarters employees and contractors: call (358-0172) or email Library@hq.nasa.gov for information on borrowing or in-library use of any of these items. Members of the public, contact your Local Library for the availability of these items. NASA Headquarters employees can request additional materials or research on this topic. The Library welcomes your comments or suggestions about this webpage.
Bibliographies
Books Online
Aerospace Science & Technology Dictionary - This online dictionary includes definitions from the NASA Thesaurus and numerous NASA, NOAA and DOE dictionaries. It can only be accessed at NASA Headquarters.
Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use -Web version of the original 1965 publication, NASA SP-7.
Encyclopedia Astronautica - A resource for information about rockets, spacecraft, launch vehicles, astronauts, cosmonauts, spaceflight, engines, space history, and exploration.
Libraries
Air University Library
DC Area Libraries
Department of Defense Libraries
Library of Congress
lib-web-cats - a directory of libraries
worldwide with links to their online catalogs.
Lunar & Planetary Institute Library
NASA Ames Research Center - NASA Ames Technical Library
NASA Center for Aerospace Information - NASA Scientific and Technical Information
Program
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center - NASA Dryden Research
Library
NASA Glenn Research Center - Glenn Technical Library
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Homer E. Newell Memorial Library
Library
NASA Headquarters Library
NASA Independent Verification & Validation Facility - WVU / NASA
IV&V Technical Library
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Beacon: Library, Archives & Records
Section
NASA Johnson Space Center - Alfred R. Neumann Library at UHCL
NASA Johnson Space Center - Scientific and Technical Information Center
NASA Kennedy Space Center - KSC Library, only accessible
from KSC
NASA Langley Research Center - Floyd L. Thompson Technical
Library - Public access version
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - Redstone Scientific Information
Center
NASA Stennis Space Center - Maury Oceanographic Library
NASA Wallops Flight Facility - Wallops Flight Facility Library
NASA White Sands Test Facility - White Sands Test
Facility Technical Library
National Institute of Standards and Technology Virtual Library
National Transportation Library
Space Telescope Science Institute Library
University System of Maryland Libraries
Washington Research Library Consortium
Websites
Boggs Space Books - This commercial site offers helpful lists of titles
in the NASA SP, NASA EP, Monographs in Aerospace History, and Johns Hopkins University Press series. All titles are
available to NASA civil servants through the NASA HQ Library.
Department of Commerce, Office of Space Commercialization
- Offers speeches, presentations, workshops, and reports on various space business and policy issues.
Drawings & Technical Diagrams -
Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
Federal Aviation Administration
International Space Station, Johnson Space Center - Imagery,
news, tracking, reference documents, mission information, and the assembly schedule.
International Trade Commission, Office of Aerospace -
Offers full-text of trade agreements and industry statistics.
Langley Research Center Exhibits- NASA Langley Exhibit
Program, where exhibits, displays, models, and artifacts are made available for loan to museums, schools and other educational
organizations. The Langley Research Center primarily serves the United States region of: Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, West Virginia and Kentucky. Other states may be served when other NASA centers are unable to satisfy requestor
needs.
NASA History Office Topical Index - subject and alphabetical list of
topics in NASA and space history.
NASA History Office, Headquarters - Histories of everything from the Apollo
program to NACA to the X-33. Includes many electronic books.
NASA History Offices, other Centers - Many have
online documents, images, or databases.
NASA Multimedia Resources -
Sources compiled for educators and includes links to resources such as video/audio clips, pictures, photographs, models and
interactive projects.
NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program - Search for and
purchase NASA books, technical reports, and video tapes.
Satellite/Spacecraft Tracking, Human Spaceflight
Homepage - Predicts when and where you can see NASA spacecraft.
Satellite/Spacecraft Tracking, Marshall Space Flight
Center - Tracks NASA spacecraft, NOAA satellites, search & rescue satellites, and amateur radio satellites and
predicts when you can see them.
Space Shuttle - News, benefits, past and future missions, upgrades, and
reference materials. This is the main shuttle web site.
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