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Recommended books

European Space Directory, a yearbook published by ESD Partners, Paris.

SIDDIQI A.A., Challenge to Apollo: the Soviet Union and the Space Race 1945-1974, NASA History Division, 2000.

CADBURY D., Space Race – The untold story of two rivals & their struggle for the Moon, BBC Worldwide, 2005.





Recommended websites

Space launches

A list which is kept up to date of space instruments and debris
http://celestrak.com/satcat/boxscore.asp

the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/index.html

Monthly bulletins concerning space launches
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/spacewarn/spacewarn.html

News concerning what is going on in orbit
http://www.planet4589.org/space/jsr/jsr.html

Launch descriptions and statistics
http://www.geocities.com/launchreport/slr.html

The problems of the proliferation and dispersal of debris in space
http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/


Russia in space

A well documented site on the history, news and perspectives on the USSR and then Russia in space
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/

The site of the prestigious Russian space systems business company, founded by S. Korolyev
http://www.energia.ru/english/

The English website of the other giant Russian space systems business company
http://www.khrunichev.ru/khrunichev_eng/live/index.asp

The site of the business company Progress which produces the Semiorka family of launchers
http://www.samspace.ru/ENG/index.htm

Site of the Franco-Russian business company Starsem which commercialises Soyuz launchers
http://www.starsem.com


Current events in astronautics

The ESA site
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html

A review of the press worldwide concerning space news
http://www.spacetoday.net/index.html

A well informed encyclopaedia in English on the Soviet space programme
http://www.astronautix.com/