Updated: Feb. 2009

This bibliography covers chronologies and schedules for past, ongoing, and future NASA missions. For more in-depth resources, please visit the NASA History Division or the National Air and Space Museum.

All items are available at the Headquarters Library, except as noted. NASA Headquarters employees and contractors: please 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 availibilty 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.

Books

Baker, David. Spaceflight and Rocketry: A Chronology. New York: Facts on File, 1996

TL788.5 .B25 1996 READY REFERENCE

 

Cassutt, Michael. Who's who in Space. New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1999

TL788.5 .C37 1999 READY REFERENCE

 

Green, Barbara E. United States Space Program Firsts: Robotic and Human Mission Firsts. Kennedy Space Center, FL: Kennedy Space Center Library Archives, 2002

TL789.8 .U5 U58 2002 BOOKSTACKS

 

Harvey, Brian. Space Exploration 2007. New York; Berlin: Springer, 2006

TL793 .H37 2006 BOOKSTACKS

 

NASA. America's Workhorse in Space: The First 100 Missions of the Space Shuttle, 1981-2000. Washington, D.C.: NASA, 2000

TL795.5 .A44 2000 BOOKSTACKS

 

Neal, Valerie, Cathleen S. Lewis, and Frank H. Winter. Spaceflight: A Smithsonian Guide. New York: Macmillan USA, 1995

TL795 .N43 1995 BOOKSTACKS

 

Portree, David S. F., and Robert C. Trevino. Walking to Olympus: An EVA Chronology. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of External Relations, NASA History Office, 1997

TL797.P67 W3 1997 BOOKSTACKS

Note: This title is available online at the website of the NASA HQ History Office.

 

Rumerman, Judy A. US Human Spaceflight: A Record of Achievement, 1961-2006. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of External Relations, NASA History Office, 2007

TL789.8 .U5 H86 2007BOOKSTACKS

Note: This title is available online at the website of the NASA HQ History Office.

 

Rumerman, Judy A., and Stephen J. Garber. Chronology of Space Shuttle Flights 1981-2000. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of External Relations, NASA History Office, 2000

TL795.5 .C47 2000 BOOKSTACKS

 

Siddiqi, Asif A. Deep Space Chronicle: A Chronology of Deep Space and Planetary Probes, 1958-2000. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of External Relations, NASA History Office, 2002.

TL790 .S53 2002 BOOKSTACKS

Note: This title is available online at the website of the NASA HQ History Office.

 

Zimmerman, Robert. The Chronological Encyclopedia of Discoveries in Space. Phoeniz, AZ: Oryx Press, 2000

QB500.262 .Z56 2000 READY REFERENCE

Periodicals

"Monthly Launch Report", Space News

A table of either predicted date or actual date of launch, launch site, vehicle and provider, payload and owner, and outcome or purpose of launches on a monthly basis.

 

"Satellite Digest", Spaceflight

Includes a table of spacecraft, with international designation, date, launch site, vehicle, approximate mass, and orbital details, updates to previous launches, ISS activity, and orbital decays.

Internet Resources

NASA Websites

Dunbar, Brian. Consolidated Launch Manifest. Feb. 20, 2009 [Feb. 23, 2009]

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/iss_manifest.html

Note: This website only covers flights to the International Space Station.

 

__________. Current Missions. Jan. 7, 2009 [Feb. 23, 2009]

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/current/index.html

Note: This website covers both manned and unmanned missions.

 

__________. Future Missions. Nov. 10, 2008 [Feb. 23, 2009]

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/future/index.html

Note: This website covers both manned and unmanned missions.

 

__________. Launch Schedule. Feb. 23, 2009 [Feb. 23, 2009]

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/highlights/schedule.html

Note: This website is a schedule for both manned and unmanned launches.

 

__________. Missions Highlights. Jan. 13, 2009 [Feb. 23, 2009]

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/index.html

Note: This website lists all NASA missions and allows you to search for specific missions.

 

__________. NASA Missions Event Archive. Oct. 24, 2008 [Feb. 23, 2009]

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/timeline/anniversary_dates/index.html

Note: This website lets you check on a calendar date to see what happened on that day at NASA.

 

__________. Past Missions. Nov. 10, 2008 [Feb. 23, 2009]

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/past/index.html

Note: This website covers both manned and unmanned missions. Because the Voyager probes are still conducting fields and particles observations, they are listed as current.

 

__________. Space Shuttle Mission Archives. Dec. 4, 2008 [Feb. 23, 2009]

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/list_main.html

 

Garber, Steve. History Timelines. Sept. 4, 2008 [Feb. 23, 2009]

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/timeline.html

 

Grayzeck, Ed. Chronology of Lunar and Planetary Exploration. Nov. 29, 2007 [Feb. 23, 2009]

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/chrono.html

 

__________. Spacewarn Bulletin. Feb. 18, 2009 [Feb. 23, 2009]

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/spacewarn/spacewarn.html

Note: Spacewarn is a monthly list of recent launches by all of the spacefaring powers and links to news about satellites whose orbits are decaying.

 

Pittman, Jay. Wallops Web Calendar. Regularly updated as launch dates approach. [Feb. 23, 2009]

http://sched.wff.nasa.gov/wffsched/

McDowell, Jonathan. Jonathan's Space Report. Feb. 15, 2009 [Feb. 23, 2009]

http://www.planet4589.org/

Note: Jonathan's Space Report is a biweekly newsletter of space news and launches.