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After Sputnik: 50 Years of the Space Age Edited by Martin Collins Smithsonian Books, 2007 A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957, the Space Race Begins By Michael D'Antonio Simon & Schuster, 2007 Chuck Yeager By Michael J. Martin Lucent Books, 2003 Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1: Breaking the Sound Barrier By Dominick A. Pisano, F. Robert van der Linden, Frank H. Winter; foreword by Chuck Yeager Abrams, 2006 Deke!: An Autobiography By Donald K. "Deke" Slayton with Michael Cassutt Forge, 1994 Distinguished African Americans in Aviation and Space Science By Betty Kaplan Gubert, Miriam Sawyer, and Caroline M. Fannin Oryx Press, 2002 Echoes Among the Stars: A Short History of the U.S. Space Program By Patrick J. Walsh M.E. Sharpe, 2000 Epic Rivalry: The Inside Story of the Soviet and American Space Race By Von Hardesty and Gene Eisman National Geographic, 2007 Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond By Gene Kranz Simon& Schuster, 2000 For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut By Scott Carpenter and Kris Stoever Harcourt, 2002 Gemini: Steps to the Moon By David J. Shayler Praxis, 2001 Gus Grissom, the Lost Astronaut By Ray E. Boomhower Indiana Historical Society Press, 2004 How NASA Learned to Fly in Space: An Exciting Account of the Gemini Missions By David M. Harland Apogee Books, 2004 Inside the Space Race: A Space Surgeon's Diary By Lawrence E. Lamb Synergy Books, 2006 Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 By Francis French and Colin Burgess; with a foreword by Paul Haney University of Nebraska Press, 2007 Into the Final Frontier: The Human Exploration of Space By Bernard McNamara Harcourt College Publishers, 2001 John Glenn: A Memoir By John Glenn with Nick Taylor Bantam Books, 1999 Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon By James Harford Wiley, 1997 Kosmos, a Portrait of the Russian Space Age Photographs by Adam Bartos; with an essay by Svetlana Boym Princeton Architectural Press, 2001 Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey into the Unknown By Gordon Cooper with Bruce Henderson HarperCollins Publishers, 2000 Light This Candle: The Life and Times of Alan Shepard, America's First Spaceman By Neal Thompson Crown Publishers, 2004 The New Russian Space Programme: From Competition to Collaboration By Brian Harvey Wiley, 1996 The Real Space Cowboys By Ed Buckbee with Wally Schirra Apogee Books, 2005 Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age By Matthew Brzezinski Times Books, 2007 Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America's First Women in Space Program By Margaret A. Weitekamp Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 Rocket Boys: A Memoir By Homer H. Hickam Delta, 2000 Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age By David A. Clary Theia, 2003 Sputnik: The Shock of the Century By Paul Dickson Walker, 2001 Star-crossed Orbits: Inside the U.S.-Russian Space Alliance By James Oberg McGraw-Hill, 2002 They Had a Dream: The Story of African-American Astronauts By J. Alfred Phelps Presidio, 1994 Yeager: An Autobiography By Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos Bantam Books, 1985 CPL Resources Unless otherwise noted, these articles are available at all Chicago Public Library locations and from home, school, or work with a Chicago Public Library card. "The Power of The Right Stuff: A Quasi-Experimental Field Test of the Docudrama Hypothesis" By William C. Adams and others The Public Opinion Quarterly, v. 49, n. 3 (1985) The movie and its influence on politics. Online access to this article is only available at Chicago Public Library locations. "Hooking up with Tom Wolfe" By John Corry The American Spectator, v. 34, n. 1 (2001) Tom Wolfe's life and work. "U.S. Picks 7 Flyers for Space Journeys" By Philip Dodd Chicago Daily Tribune, April 10, 1959 The selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts. "Tom Wolfe on the 1960's" By Thomas L. Hartshorne Midwest Quarterly, v. 23, n. 2 (1982) Wolfe’s role in the 1960’s literary scene. "Tom Wolfe’s Space Odyssey" By Seymour Krim. Chicago Tribune, September 9, 1979 How The Right Stuff was reviewed at the time of publication. "For NASA, 'The Right Stuff' Takes on a Softer Tone: Astronauts' Social Skills, Not Piloting, Now Vital." By Traci Watson USA Today, February 4, 2008 The life of an astronaut today. "Outer Space as Frontier: Lessons for Today" By Ray A. Williamson Western Folklore, v. 46, n. 4 (1987) Space exploration and what it means to society. Online access to this article is only available at Chicago Public Library locations. Find detailed biographies of Tom Wolfe, Chuck Yeager and the Mercury 7 Astronauts in Biography Resource Center. Fiction of Interest • Escape to what might have been in the alternate history Voyage by Stephen Baxter, in which President Kennedy lives to promote a Mars landing following the Apollo missions. • Another Baxter speculation is his sequel to Manifold: Time called Manifold: Space, a virtual candy store of scientific puzzles and ideas proposed by the devoted NASA astronaut, Reid Malenfant. • What story planted the seed for Stanley Kubrick’s legendary film, 2001: A Space Odyssey? It’s Arthur C. Clarke’s "Sentinel," found in The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke. • Dr. Emma Watson is a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station, desperately trying to stop a deadly epidemic in the medical thriller, Gravity by Tess Gerritsen. • Homer H. Hickam Jr.’s memoir, Rocket Boys, made into the movie October Sky, inspired countless young people to reach for their dreams. Now in Back to the Moon, the former NASA scientist has written a space adventure with lots of solid science, a devoted astronaut in Jack Medaris, and plenty of inspiration for the future of space exploration. • Crazy for the space program, 11-year-old Gregory Noonan skips school on May 24, 1962, and heads to Grand Central Station to watch TV coverage of astronaut Scott Carpenter’s orbits of the earth. Gregory is involved in a life-threatening accident whereby the earthly "orbits" of his too-busy father, a cab driver, a novelist and an elevator operator spin and converge in Aurora 7, by Thomas Mallon. • James A. Michener embraced the subject of space flight and rocketry, resulting in a saga covering forty years of America’s space exploration program in his gripping historical novel, Space. • A Russian author’s perspective on the space race, Viktor Pelevin's Omon Ra is a haunting satire about idealistic Russian boys who dream of becoming cosmonauts, only to face bitter realities in a substandard Soviet space program. • Space exploration and speculative fiction go hand-in-hand, especially when it comes to the colonization of Mars. Author Kim Stanley Robinson is arguably the master storyteller on the subject in Red Mars from his Mars Trilogy. • Science teacher Jerry Finch wrote an award-winning essay that won him the dream of his life: a trip to the moon with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Jerry's son Georgie starts getting phone calls from his dad in space in the highly original and moving plot of Gentlemen of Space by Ira Sher. • In his 1865 science fiction space novel, From the Earth to the Moon, Jules Verne foretold some features of America's 20th century moon programs, such as details on rockets and Florida launch sites. • Evgenii Zamiatin's futuristic novel We, published in 1920s USSR, introduces the mighty spaceship Integral and its unnamed designer D-503, who is later compared to the similarly unnamed force behind the secretive Soviet space program of the late 1950s. Kids and Teens Bravery and exploration have long been the stuff of great stories, from ancient quests to Project Mercury to today, so let these amazing tales guide your imagination up, up, and away to the farthest reaches of the universe and inspire you to make a difference in your own world and beyond. 11 Planets: A New View of the Solar System By David Aguilar National Geographic, 2008 (Ages 9-13) Aguilar provides a brilliant update to where we may someday travel, from the Earth to Eris. Exploring the Solar System By Mary Kay Carson Chicago Review Press, 2008 (Ages 9-13) The dynamic story of the human quest for the stars comes to life with 22 activities that families and classes can share together. Find Where the Wind Goes: Moments from My Life By Mae Jemison Scholastic, 2001 (Ages 10 and up) This Chicagoan broke many barriers on and above earth to become the first African American woman in space, and here she shares her own inspirational story. How Do You Go to the Bathroom in Space? By William Pogue Tom Doherty, 1999 (Ages 9 and up) Everything you ever wanted to know about life beyond Earth’s boundaries is answered here with a very insightful introduction by John Glenn (and he should know). Liftoff: A Photobiography of John Glenn By Don Mitchell National Geographic, 2006 (Ages 9-12) From pilot to astronaut to senator and back to astronaut, this fascinating biography of an intriguing American is overflowing with photos. NASA By Steve Kortenkamp First Facts, 2007 (Ages 7-9) When NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) became NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) things really started to take off for America. Neil Armstrong: One Giant Leap for Mankind By Tara Dixon-Engel Sterling, 2008 (Ages 10-14) Instead of a driver’s license, Armstrong received a pilot’s license on his 16th birthday and never looked back until he literally landed on the moon. Project Mercury By Diane and Paul Sipiera Children’s Press, 1998 (Ages 8-12) Here is the true story of the six history-making missions from blast-off to splash down. Reaching for the Moon By Buzz Aldrin, illustrated by Wendell Minor Collins, 2008 (Ages 8-12) The trajectory of Buzz’s life took him from bike riding to moon walking. Space Exploration: Careers in Focus Ferguson, 2007 (Ages 12 and up) Look here for everything you need to know about how to live your dream of an out-of-this-world career. Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon By Catherine Thimmesh Houghton Mifflin, 2006 (Ages 9-13) This book introduces many of the thousands of people who dreamed and worked to help make that historic “one small step for a man. This Rocket By Paul Collicutt Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005 (Ages 4-8) Rockets that zoom up and splash down fill all of the colorful pages of this perfect book for the youngest space explorers. Wings and Rockets: The Story of Women in Air and Space By Jeannine Atkins, illustrated by Duŝan Petričić Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003 (Ages 9-13) Come meet some of the many women throughout history who, whether as a Wright sister or a flight commander, have taken to the skies. |
