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.