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Agena
Reusable Agena Study. Volume 1: Executive Summary; Space Shuttle Agena Upper Stage Tug Concept
Agena Monthly Progress Report, December 1962
January 1963Agena Monthly Progress Report, January
NASA AGENA D MISSION CAPABILITIES AND RESTRAINTS CATALOG, VOLUME II
Apollo-Little Joe
Atlas
Experimental bending strength of an Atlas LV-3C booster beyond compressive skin wrinkling
STATIC LOAD TESTS ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, ATLAS VEHICLE LAUNCHER
Atlas-Centaur
Postflight Trajectory Reassembly AC-6
ATLAS-CENTAUR VI FLIGHT PATH AND ITS DETERMINATION FROM TRACKING DATA
ATLAS/CENTAUR LAUNCH-ON-TIME STUDY FINAL REPORT /SURVEYOR MISSION
Atlas-Centaur Flight Performance for Surveyor Mission A
Design of coast-phase propellant management system for two-burn Atlas-Centaur flight AC-8
Range Safety Aerodynamics Data for Atlas/ Centaur/Surveyor Direct Ascent Flights
Study of separation dynamics and systems related to staging of Atlas-Centaur
Management of cryogenic propellants in a full scale orbiting space vehicle
Origin of high-intensity noise in the area of a large protuberance on a launch vehicle
Flight-wind restrictions procedure, Atlas/Centaur AC-10 through AC-15
Flight-wind restrictions procedure, Atlas/Centaur AC-10 through AC-15. ADDENDUM I - Backup procedure
EVALUATION OF THE MARC 7G1 AUXILIARY ROCKET MOTOR FOR USE ON THE ATLAS-CENTAUR VEHICLE FINAL REPORT
INTERSTAGE ADAPTER PANEL FLUTTER ON ATLAS- CENTAUR AC-2, AC-3, AND AC-4 VEHICLES
ATLAS/CENTAUR LAUNCH-ON-TIME STUDY FINAL REPORT /SURVEYOR MISSION/
Investigation of Atlas Solid Fuel Retarding Rocket During Atlas-Centaur Separation Tests
Flight Dynamics and Control Analysis of the Centaur Vehicle /Atlas/Centaur AC-5/
Comparison of the Atlas/Centaur /Surveyor/ and IGM guidance concepts
Surveyor A /AC-10/ flash flight report
Atlas-Centaur-Surveyor longitudinal dynamics test
ATLAS-CENTAUR AC-5 ANALOG/DIGITAL LOAD REDUCTION AUTOPILOT STUDY
External design loads - Operational Centaur vehicles /AC-6 through AC-15/
Atlas-Centaur AC-17 performance for applications technology satellite ATS-D mission
Atlas-Centaur AC-18 performance evaluation for Applications Technology Satellite ATS-5 mission
Atlas Centaur-29 Intelsat IV (F5) flash flight report
Atlas-Agena
NASA AGENA D MISSION CAPABILITIES AND RESTRAINTS CATALOG, VOLUME II
Atlas Agena-18 Lunar Orbiter B operations summary
Atlas Agena-26 orbiting geophysical observatory-5 flash flight report
Atlas-Agena flight performance for the Applications Technology Satellite ATS-1 mission
Atlas-Agena performance for the 1967 Mariner Venus mission
Centaur
Centaur launch vehicle propellant utilization system
Centaur AC-6 nose fairing separation tests
Centaur electrical system problems, related work, and solutions
Taming Liquid Hydrogen: The Centaur Upper Stage Rocket 1958 - 2002 (NASA History Office)
CONTROL DYNAMICS ANALYSIS OF THE CENTAUR STAGE PROPELLANT UTILIZATION CONTROL SYSTEM
Centaur space vehicle pressurized propellant feed system tests
Delta
The fragmentation of the Nimbus 6 rocket body
Delta 2 Explosion Plume Analysis Report
Flight Vibration Data from the Delta 9 Launch Vehicle
Gemini Atlas-Agena
Gemini-Titan
Japanese Launch Vehicles
H-IIA Launch Vehicle (jaxa.jp)
M-V Launch Vehicle(jaxa.jp)
H-IIA Transfer Vehicle (HTV)(jaxa.jp)
LNG Propulsion System Flight Demonstration Project(jaxa.jp)
Jupiter
Mercury Atlas
Mercury-Little Joe
Mercury-Redstone
Saturn I
Saturn IB
Saturn V
Scout
Scout System Design Report. Supplement I- Basic System Design Data
Acoustic data from the launch of Scout S-172C /ESRO 1-B/ and Scout S-169 /GRS-A/
Scout ST-1 Flight Tests, Launch Operations, Test Vehicle Description
Flight Performance Data from the Scout X-258 Rocket Motor
Scout launch vehicle program, phase 6, part 1
Scout launch vehicle program, phase 6, part 1
TUNNEL MOUNTED AUTO DESTRUCT MODULE SCOUT VEHICLE
Coning Motions of the Final Stages of Three NASA Scout Development Vehicles
ORBITAL ERROR ANALYSIS OF THE SCOUT RESEARCH VEHICLE
Sounding Rockets
A PROGRAM OF X-RAY ASTRONOMY FROM SOUNDING ROCKET FINAL REPORT
INVESTIGATION OF IN-FLIGHT ROLL CONTROL TECHNIQUES FOR SOUNDING ROCKETS FINAL
NASA LANGLEY SMALL METEOROLOGICAL SOUNDING ROCKET DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
NASA Sounding Rockets (GSFC)
NASA SOUNDING ROCKET PROGRAM - SUMMARY OF SOUNDING ROCKET FLIGHTS
Sounding Rocket Users Handbook (WFF)
HOPI-DART AND CAJUN-DART ROCKET WIND MEASURING SYSTEMS
PERFORMANCE SUMMARY FOR THE IRIS SOUNDING ROCKET VEHICLE
PERFORMANCE SUMMARY FOR THE JASON SOUNDING ROCKET VEHICLE
PERFORMANCE SUMMARY FOR THE AEROBEE 150A SOUNDING ROCKET VEHICLE
A Compendium of Aerobee Sounding Rocket Launchings from 1959 through 1963
A Compendium of NASA Aerobee Sounding Rocket Launchings for 1966
Nike-Apache Sounding Rocket Performance Handbook
Mobile Aerobee launch facility
NASA sounding rockets, 1958 - 1968: A historical summary
Nike Tomahawk preliminary performance studies
Cajun-Dart sounding vehicle Final report
Cajun Dart 95 kilometer Sounding Rocket
Instrumentation and flight report on Astrobee 1500 flight 16.02 GT
A program of X-ray astronomy from sounding rocket Final report
Goddard Projects Summary- Satellites and Sounding Rockets
Comparison of Theoretical with Actual Nike-Apache Sounding-Rocket Performance
Sounding Rocket Reliability Reassessment
NASA sounding rocket survey for future development
Thor
Design feasibility report: Thor test booster for the NASA manned space capsule
Thorad-Agena performance for the Nimbus 3 mission
Comparison of Pre-Launch and Flight Vibration Measurements on Thor Launch Vehicles
NEWThorad-Agena performance for the Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 6 mission
NEWThrust Augmented Thor-Agena performance for the Orbiting Geophysical Observatory OGO-4 mission
Titan II
Titan II Space Launch Vehcle Profile (GSFC)
Titan III
Compilation of Flight Data from Titan III Vehicles
Titan III boosters for Langley's manned lifting body entry program
Titian Centaur D-1TTC-4 Viking A flight data report
Titan Centaur D1TTC-3 Viking B flight data report
Vanguard
The Vanguard Satellite Launching Vehicle: An Engineering Summary
VEGA (ESA)
VEGA-Realizing Europe's Small Launcher
Vega: The European Small Launcher
Viking
MISC.
An Analysis of Chemical Upper Stages for NASA Scientific Missions(1965)
Chronology of Major NASA Launchings
Coqui Dos (GSFC)
European Launchers for the World (ESA)
National launch vehicle summary. Revision 3
Launch vehicles of the national launch vehicle program, NASA programs (1964)
Overview of NASA's Electric Propulsion Program (JPL)
Rocket Propulsion Research Lewis Research Center
Review of Solid Propellants for Space Exploration
Updated 02/03/2008
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