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Vanguard |  | **SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY**

**Books:**
- Baker, David.  The Rocket . London: New Cavendish Books, 1978.
- Bilstein, Roger E.  Orders of Magnitude: A History of the NACA and NASA,1915-1990.  (NASA SP-4406). Washington: Government Printing Office,1989.
- Bulkeley, Rip.  The Sputniks Crisis and Early United States Space Policy:A Critique of the Historiography of Space.  Bloomington and Indianapolis:Indiana Unviersity Press, 1991. 
- Divine, Robert A.  The Sputnik Challenge . New York and Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 1993. 
- Gatland, Kenneth, editor, with VonBraun, Wernher; Ross, Harry; and Cleaver,A.V.  Project Satellite . New York: British Book Centre, 1958. 
-  Green, Constance McLaughlin and Lomask, Milton. *Vanguard:A History.*  Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1971. 
- Harford, James,  Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive toBeat America to the Moon.  New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
- Launius, Roger D.  NASA: A History of the U.S. Civil Space Program .Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company, 1994. 
- Levine, Alan J.  The Missile and the Space Race . Westport, Connecticutand London: Praeger Publishers, 1994.
- Ley, Willy.  Missiles, Moonprobes, and Megaparsecs.  New York: SignalScience Library Books, 1964. 
- Logsdon, John M. Editor. With Lear, Linda J., WarrenFindley, Jannelle,Williamson, Ray A., and Day, Dwayne A.  Exploring the Unknown: SelectedDocuments in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program, Volume I, Organizingfor Exploration . (NASA SP-4407). Washington: Government Printing Office,1995. 
- Logsdon, John M. Editor. With Day, Dwayne A. and Launius, Roger D.  Exploringthe Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil SpaceProgram, Volume II, External Relationships . (NASA SP-4407). Washington:Government Printing Office, 1996. 
- McDougall, Walter A. ... The Heavens and the Earth: A Political Historyof the Space Age.  New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1985.
- Roman, Peter J.  Eisenhower and the Missile Gap . Ithaca: CornellUniversity Press, 1995.
- Von Braun, Wernher and Ordway, Frederick I., III.  History of Rocketryand Space Travel . New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1969.
- Yenne, Bill.  Pictorial History of World Spacecraft . New York: ExeterBooks, 1988.
**Articles:**- McDougall, Walter A. "Sputnik, the Space Race, and the Cold War."  TheBulletin of the Atomic Scientists . 41 (May 1985): 20-25. 
- Rosen, M.W. "October 4, 1957 - Sputnik Beeps, America Responds."  Astronauticsand Aeronautics . 15 (October 1977): 20-23. 
- Sistak, B.J. "Memories of Sputnik."  Astronomy . 14 (December 1986):24+. 
- "The Legacy of Sputnik."  Space World . X-10-286 (October 1987): 3,7-32+. 
- Tikhonravov, M.K. "The Creation of the First Artificial Earth Satellite:Some Historical Details."  Journal of the British Interplanetary Society .47 #5 (May 1994): 191-194. 
- Vedeshin, L.S., and V.P. Dudykin. " Preparation and Launching in the USSRof the First Artificial Earth Satellite."  ITU Telecommunication Journal .44 (October 1977): p 477-481. Microfiche 78A17750 
- Williams, Gurney. "Sputnik: The Little Sphere that Changed the World." PopularMechanics . 164 (October 1987): 59-61. 
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