A SHORT READING AND FILM LIST

BOOKS

THE MAN IN THE MOONE:

Francis Godwin (1638), edited by William Poole (2009)

FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON:

Jules Verne (1865)

NASA VOYAGER 1 & 2:

OWNER’S WORKSHOP MANUAL:

Christopher Riley, Richard Corfield and Philip Dolling (2015)

SOYUZ: OWNER’S WORKSHOP MANUAL:

David Baker (2014)

ANIMALS IN SPACE: FROM RESEARCH ROCKETS TO THE SPACE SHUTTLE:

Colin Burgess and Chris Dubbs (2007)

SOVIET SPACE DOGS:

Olesya Turkina (2014)

SELECTING THE MERCURY SEVEN:

Colin Burgess (2011)

EXPLORING SPACE:

A LADYBIRD ACHIEVEMENTS BOOK:

Roy Worvill, illustrated by B. Knight (1964)

CHOOSING THE RIGHT STUFF:

Patricia Santy (1994)

RIGHT STUFF, WRONG SEX:

AMERICA’S FIRST WOMEN IN SPACE PROGRAM:

Margaret A. Weitekamp (2004)

THE RIGHT STUFF:

Tom Wolfe (1979)

SPACESUITS: THE SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM COLLECTION:

Amanda Young (2009)

SPACESUIT: FASHIONING APOLLO:

Nicholas De Monchaux (2011)

U.S. SPACE GEAR:

Lillian D. Kozloski (1994)

ROCKET DREAMS:

Marina Benjamin (2003)

DRAGONFLY:

NASA AND THE CRISIS ABOARD MIR:

Bryan Burrough (1998)

LOST MOON:

Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger (1994)

MURMURS OF EARTH: THE VOYAGER INTERSTELLAR RECORD:

Carl Sagan (1978)

FILMS

BANG GOES THE THEORY:

BBC1 popular science series (2009-2014)

COSMONAUTS:

HOW RUSSIA WON THE SPACE RACE:

BBC documentary, directed by Michael Lachmann (first broadcast 13 October 2014)

THE ENGINES THAT CAME IN FROM THE COLD:

Channel 4 documentary from the Equinox Series, directed by Dan Clifton (first broadcast 1 March 2001)

FRAU IM MOND:

Film directed by Fritz Lang (1929)

MAN IN SPACE:

Disney documentary, directed by Ward Kimball (first broadcast 9 March 1955)

THE RIGHT STUFF:

Film based on Tom Wolfe’s famous book, directed by Philip Kaufman (1983)

ORPHANS OF APOLLO:

Film directed by Becky Neiman and Michael Potter (2008)

MIR MORTALS:

BBC Horizon, produced by Jill Fullerton-Smith (first broadcast 23 April 1998)

VOYAGER: TO THE FINAL FRONTIER:

BBC documentary directed by Christopher Riley (first broadcast 24 October 2012)

THE RESTLESS SPHERE: THE STORY OF INTERNATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL YEAR:

BBC documentary, presented by HRH Prince Phillip The Duke of Edinburgh (first broadcast 30 June 1957)