Updated: Dec. 2006

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

 

Rumerman, Judy A. U.S. Human Spaceflight: A Record of Achievement, 1961-1998. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of External Relations, NASA History Office, 1998

TL789.8 .U5 U553 1998 BOOKSTACKS

 

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

 

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.

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Internet Resources

NASA Websites

Dunbar, Brian. Consolidated Launch Manifest. 8 Dec. 2006 [cited 11 Dec. 2006]

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

 

__________. Current Missions. 30 Nov. 2006 [cited 11 Dec. 2006]

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

 

__________. Future Missions. 29 Aug. 2006 [cited 11 Dec. 2006]

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

 

__________. Launch Schedule. 9 Dec. 2006 [cited 11 Dec. 2006]

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

 

__________. Missions Highlights. 11 Dec. 2006 [cited 11 Dec. 2006]

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

 

__________. NASA Missions Event Archive. 11 Sept. 2006 [cited 11 Dec. 2006]

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

 

__________. Past Missions. 18 Sept. 2006 [cited 11 Dec. 2006]

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

 

__________. Space Shuttle Mission Archives. 14 Oct. 2006 [cited 11 Dec. 2006]

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

 

Garber, Steve. History Timelines. 30 July 2004 [cited 11 Dec. 2006]

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

 

Grayzeck, Ed. Chronology of Lunar and Planetary Exploration. 2 June 2006 [cited 11 Dec. 2006]

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

 

__________. Spacewarn Bulletin. 4 Dec. 2006 [cited 11 Dec. 2006]

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

 

Petty, John Ira. History Portal. 25 April 2006 [cited 11 Dec. 2006]

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/

 

Pittman, Jay. Wallops Web Calendar. Regularly updated as launch dates approach. [cited 11 Dec. 2006]

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

 

Wright, Brandon. Sounding Rocket Schedule. 13 July 2006 [cited 11 Dec. 2006]

http://www.wff.nasa.gov/code810/schedules.html

 

Other Websites

McDowell, Jonathan. Jonathan's Space Report. 18 Nov. 2006 [cited 11 Dec. 2006]

http://www.planet4589.org/

 

Wade, Mark. Encyclopedia Astronautica. 2006 [cited 11 Dec. 2006]

http://www.astronautix.com/