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A list of space exploration related books (some are online, some are on paper)
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Awesome Space Books Awesome

A list of space exploration resources (born at https://space.meta.stackexchange.com/q/249 before the unfortunate politicization and general decline collapse of the SE network).

This list includes links/citations for books and other resources that are deemed classical in the field of space exploration. Many of the books are offline, try to contact your nearest library to arrange an ILL. If you want 'lighter' reading online while waiting for the books to arrive, go to Winchell Chung's Atomic Rockets site.

License

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported

Contributors

The full list of contributors at Space Exploration StackExchange

Guidelines (h/t to D.Richard Hipp)

GitHub lists on space sciences and technology

Table of contents

Reference books

Mission analysis and design. Project management

Incident and accident investigation reports

NOAA N' mishap

⇈ This ⇈ is what happens when you don't read the books.

... and also this:

Ballistics, dynamics, and control

Propulsion

Thermal control

Communications

Scientific payloads

External risks

Reentry

Operations


Manned exploration references


Model and amateur rocketry


Journals


History books and collections

Above: Orion test article powered by conventional explosives. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Sv5y6iHUM


Nonfiction and activity space books for children


Interdisciplinary books


Miscellaneous

Lists of online books/reports

Lists in this repository

Online courses and textbooks (free of charge)

John E. Draim's satellite constellation patents

4809935, 4854527, 5582367, 5669585, 5788187, 5845206, 5957409, 5979832, 6102335, 6263188, 6457678, 6487476, 6577864, 6611683, 6678519, 6701126, 6714521, 6795687, 6954613

What to do next


The list of (historical and current) launch vehicle user manuals

It should be noted that there are on-line commercial resources with space-related technical information (like the above-mentioned, but not advertised here L2). Readers are encouraged to check availability of linked documents (even those accessible via Web Archive) and submit pull requests with permanent links at archive.is to avoid knuckle-headed retroactive cleanup perpetrated by web site owners.

An infographic from Randall Munroe (Copyright XKCD):

Copyright XKCD

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