Reports, Papers, Articles, and Presentations:
H. Julian Allen and A.J. Eggers, Jr., “A Study of the Motion and Aerodynamic Heating of Ballistic Missiles Entering the Earth’s Atmosphere at High Supersonic Speeds,” NACA TR-1381 (1953).
Anon., “How Mercury Capsule Design Evolved,” Aviation Week, (Sept. 21, 1959).
Anon., “Fourth ASSET Glider Gathers Data,” Aviation Week, (Nov. 2, 1964).
Anon., “Sortie Module May Cut Experiment Cost,” Aviation Week, (Jan. 17, 1972).
F.M. Anthony, R.R. Fisher, and R.G. Helenbrook, “Selection of Space Shuttle Thermal Protection Systems,” AIAA Paper 71-443 (1971).
Paul R. Becker, “Leading-Edge Structural Material System of the Space Shuttle,” American Ceramic Society Bulletin, vol. 60, No. 11 (1981), pp. 1210–1214.
C.E. Brown, W.J. O’Sullivan, and C.H. Zimmerman, “A Study of the Problems Related to High Speed, High Altitude Flight,” NACA Langley Research Center, 1953.
Frank C. Conahan, “National Aero-Space Plane: Restructuring Further Research and Development Efforts,” General Accounting Office Report NSIAD-93-71 (Dec. 3, 1992).
William Cowie, “Utilization of Refractory Metals on the X-20A (Dyna-Soar),” Air Force Systems Command, June 1964, DTIC AD-609169.
Leonard David, “Lift for Public Space Travel,” Aerospace America (Feb. 2009), pp. 24–29.
Richard A. DeMeis, “The Trisonic Titanium Republic,” Air Enthusiast, No. 7, (July–Sept. 1978), pp. 198–213.
Grumman Corporation, “Space Shuttle Program Definition: Phase B Extension Final Report,” B35-43 RP-33 (Mar. 15, 1972).
T.A. Heppenheimer, “Making Planes from Powder,” High Technology (Sept. 1986), pp. 54–55.
William S. Hieronymus, “Two Reusable Materials Studied for Orbiter Thermal Protection,” Aviation Week, (Mar. 27, 1972), p. 48.
Stanley W. Kandebo, “Boeing 777 to Incorporate New Alloy Developed for NASP,” Aviation Week, (May 3, 1993), p. 36.
L.J. Korb, C.A. Morant, R.M. Calland, and C.S. Thatcher, “The Shuttle Orbiter Thermal Protection System,” American Ceramic Society Bulletin, vol. 60 (1981), pp. 1188–1193.
Martin Marietta, “SV-5D PRIME Final Flight Test Summary,” Report ER-14465, (Sept. 1967).
McDonnell Aircraft Corp., “ASSET ASV-3 Flight Test Report,” Jan. 4, 1965, DTIC AD-357523.
McDonnell Aircraft Corp., “ASSET ASV-4 Flight Test Report,” June 25, 1965, DTIC AD-366546.
McDonnell-Douglas, “External LH2 Tank Study Final Report,” MDC E076-1, June 30, 1971.
McDonnell-Douglas, “Interim Report to OMSF: Phase B System Study Extension,” Sept. 1, 1971.
McDonnell-Douglas, “NASP Materials and Structures Program: Titanium Matrix Composites,” Dec. 31, 1991.
Howard J. Middendorf, “Materials and Processes for X-20A (Dyna-Soar),” Air Force Systems Command, June 1964, DTIC AD-449685.
Robert A. Miller, “History of Thermal Barrier Coatings for Gas Turbine Engines,” NASA TM-2009-215459 (2009).
Dale D. Myers, “The Navaho Cruise Missile: A Burst of Technology,” Acta Astronautica, vol. 26, (Nov. 8–10, 1992), pp. 741–748.
William J. Normyle, “Manned Flight Tests to Seek Lifting-Body Technology,” Aviation Week, (May 16, 1966), pp. 64–75.
Scott Pace, “Engineering Design and Political Choice: The Space Shuttle 1969–72,” master’s thesis (Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 1982).
Nitin P. Padture, Maurice Gelland, and Eric H. Jordan, “Thermal Barrier Coatings for Gas-Turbine Engine Applications,” Science, vol. 296 (Apr. 12, 2002), pp. 280–284.
Lee L. Peterson, “Evaluation Report on X-7A,” Report AFMDC ADJ 57-8184, Oct. 3, 1957.
Joel W. Powell, “Thor-Able and Atlas-Able,” Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (May 1984), pp. 219–225.
William A. Ritchie, “Evaluation Report on X-7A (System 601B),” Report AFMDC DAS 58-8129, Jan. 1959.
Rockwell International, “High Conductivity Composites: Executive Summary, Copper Materials, Beryllium Materials, Coatings, Ceramic Materials and Joining,” (Mar. 1993), DTIC ADB-191898.
Terence Ronald, “Status and Applications of Materials Developed for NASP,” AIAA Paper 95-6131 (1995).
P.H. Rose, “Physical Gas Dynamics Research at the Avco Research Lab,” NATO Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research and Development Report 145, July 1957.
P.H. Rose and W.I. Stark, “Stagnation Point Heat-Transfer Measurements in Dissociated Air.” Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences (Feb. 1958), pp. 86–97.
R.L. Schleicher, “Structural Design of the X-15,” Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (Oct. 1963), pp. 618–636.
Wilson B. Schramm, Ronald P. Banas, and Y. Douglas Izu, “Space Shuttle Tile—The Early Lockheed Years,” Lockheed Horizons, No. 13, (1983), pp. 2–15.
Wilson Schramm, “HRSI and LRSI—The Early Years,” American Ceramic Society Bulletin, vol. 60 (1981), pp. 1194–1195.
Alvin Seiff and H. Julian Allen, “Some Aspects of the Design of Hypersonic Boost-Glide Aircraft,” NACA RM-A55E26 (1955).
J. Sorensen, “Titanium Matrix Composites—NASP Materials and Structures Augmentation Program,” AIAA Paper 90-5207 (1990).
Leo Steg, “Materials for Re-Entry Heat Protection of Satellites,” American Rocket Society Journal (Sept. 1960), pp. 815–822.
George W. Sutton, “The Initial Development of Ablation Heat Protection, An Historical Survey,” Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, (Jan.–Feb. 1982), pp. 3–11.
B.K. Thomas, “USAF Nears Lifting Body Tests,” Aviation Week (July 10, 1967), pp. 99–101.
Richard C. Thuss, Harry G. Thibault, and Arnold Hiltz, “The Utilization of Silica Based Thermal Insulation for the Space Shuttle Thermal Protection System,” CASI 72A-10764, Oct. 1971.
Vought Missiles and Space Company, “Technical Overview: Oxidation Resistant Carbon-Carbon for the Space Shuttle,” n.d. (c. 1970).
Michael L. Yaffee, “Program Changes Boost Grumman Shuttle,” Aviation Week (July 12, 1963), pp. 36–39.
Richard E. Young, Martha A. Smith, and Charles K. Sobeck, “Galileo Probe: In Situ Observations of Jupiter’s Atmosphere,” Science, (May 10, 1996), pp. 837–838.
U.S. Air Force Aeronautical Systems Division staff, Proceedings of 1962 X-20A (Dyna-Soar) Symposium, vol. 3, Structures and Materials (Wright Patterson AFB: HQ ASD, 1963).
U.S. Air Force Systems Command staff, “Advanced Technology Program: Technical Development Plan for Aerothermodynamic/Elastic Structural System Environmental Tests (ASSET),” HQ AFSC, Sept. 9, 1963.
U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency staff, Re-Entry Studies, vol. 1. (Redstone Arsenal, AL: HQ ABMA, Nov. 25, 1958).
U.S. Department of Energy, Proceedings of the Workshop on Coatings for Advanced Heat Engines, Castine, ME, July 27–30, 1987 (Washington, DC: HQ DoE, 1987).
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration staff, NASA Space Shuttle Technology Conference, vol. 2, Structures and Materials, NASA TM-X-2273 (1971).
Dong-ming Zhu and Robert A. Miller, “Investigation of Thermal High Cycle and Low Cycle Fatigue Mechanisms of Thick Thermal Barrier Coatings,” Materials Science and Engineering, vol. A245 (1998), pp. 212–223.
Dong-ming Zhu and Robert A. Miller, “Development of Advanced Low Conductivity Thermal Barrier Coatings,” International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology, vol. l, (2004), pp. 86–94.
Books and Monographs:
Morton Alperin and Hollingsworth F. Gregory, eds., Vistas in Astronautics, vol. 2 (New York: Pergamon Press, 1959).
John Becklake, ed., History of Rocketry and Astronautics, vol. 17 of the AAS History Series (San Diego: Univelt, 1995).
Deborah D.L. Chung, Carbon Fiber Composites (Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1994).
Erik M. Conway, High-Speed Dreams (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).
Paul F. Crickmore, Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird (London: Osprey Publishing Ltd., 1986).
Matthew J. Donachie, Jr., Superalloys Source Book (Metals Park, OH: American Society for Metals, 1984).
Richard P. Hallion, ed., The Hypersonic Revolution: Case Studies in the History of Hypersonic Technology, vols. 1 and 2, (Bolling AFB: USAF, 1998).
James R. Hansen, Engineer in Charge: A History of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, 1917–1958, NASA SP-4305 (Washington: GPO, 1987).
T.A. Heppenheimer, Turbulent Skies: The History of Commercial Aviation (New York: John Wiley, 1995).
T.A. Heppenheimer, The Space Shuttle Decision, NASA SP-4221 (Washington, DC: NASA, 1999).
T.A. Heppenheimer, Development of the Space Shuttle, 1972–1981, (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002).
Dennis Jenkins, Space Shuttle, (Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, 2001).
Willy Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel (New York: Viking, 1957).
Jay Miller, The X-Planes, X-1 to X-45 (North Branch, MN: Specialty Press, 2001).
NASA, Columbia Accident Investigation Report, (Washington: GPO, 2003).
Jacob Neufeld, The Development of Ballistic Missiles in the United States Air Force, 1945–1960 (Washington: Office of Air Force History, 1990).
David Robarge, Archangel: CIA’s Supersonic A-12 Reconnaissance Aircraft (McLean, VA: CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2007).
Kevin C. Ruffner, Corona: America’s First Satellite Program, (McLean, VA: Central Intelligence Agency, 1995).