Launch Schedules and Mission Chronologies

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.


Contents: Books Periodicals Internet Resources

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/
Other Websites
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.
  Feb. 2009