Session 1 – Suggested Resources by Presenters

Links and Further Readings from Michael Neufeld:

• PBS Nova TV program: Sputnik Declassified Excellent 1 hr. documentary for 50th anniversary
• Sputnik documents in .pdf form
• Constance Green and Milton Lomask, Vanguard: A History
• T. A. Heppenheimer, Countdown: A History of Space Flight (New York, 1997) Walter A. McDougall, …The Heavens and the Earth (New York, 1985) excellent source, won Pulitzer Prize, but difficult for most high-schoolers

Links and Further Readings from Roger Launius:

• The Decision to Go to the Moon
• John M Logsdon, The Decision to Go to the Moon: Project Apollo and the National Interest (MIT Press, 1970) (synopsis - PDF)
• Key Space Policy Documents
• NASA’s Apollo Anniversary Page