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Leadership and America's future in space: a report to the administrator by Sally K. Ride
Call Number: Online and STLib FedDocs NAS 1.2:L 46
Publication Date: [1987]
Select "Html version (fully searchable text)" or "pdf version (full-color graphics)"
Also online at Hathi Trust http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001296263
Investigation of the Challenger accident : report of the Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session
Call Number: Y 1.1/8:99-1016 or Serial Set 13713
Publication Date: 1986
Online access available through our catalog.
Also https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRPT-99hrpt1016/pdf/GPO-CRPT-99hrpt1016.pdf
Investigation of the Challenger Accident : hearings before the Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session
Call Number: Y 4.Sci 2:99-139 - microfiche
Publication Date: 1986
Online access available through HathiTrust. Also
Vol. 1: https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS35924
Vol. 2: https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS35925
NASA's Response to the Committee's Investigation of the "Challenger" Accident : Hearing before the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, February 26, 1987
Call Number: StLib FedDocs Y 4.Sci 2:100/7
Publication Date: 1987
Online access available through our library catalog.
Flight of STS-7 with astronauts Capt. Robert L. Crippen, Capt. Frederick H. Hauck, Col. John M. Fabian, Dr. Sally K. Ride, and Dr. Norman E. Thagard
Call Number: STLib FedDocs Y 4.Sci 2:98/13
Also online in CT State Library's subscription databases.
Post-Challenger Evaluation Of Space Shuttle Risk Assessment And Management
Call Number: Online and Federal Documents Microfiche NAS 1.26:182461
Publication Date: 1988
Also at https://doi.org/10.17226/10616
Report of the PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident by Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident
Call Number: Federal Documents PR 40.8:SP 1/R 29
Publication Date: 1986
Power to Explore : a History of Marshall Space Flight Center, 1960-1990 by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. History Office. ; Andrew J. Dunar ; Waring, Stephen P.
Call Number: STLib FedDocs NAS 1.21:4313
ISBN: 0160589924
Publication Date: 2000
Online access available through our catalog

For the history of NASA, see also parts of this guide for JFK and the Space Race and Apollo 13.

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NASA History Program
Site: "The NASA History Program was first established in 1959 (a year after NASA itself was formed) and has continued to document and preserve the agency's remarkable history through a variety of products. Dr. Roger D. Launius, former NASA Chief Historian, wrote an excellent historiographic article about the history of the NASA History Division itself."
Previous pages archived in WayBack Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20240901000000*/https://www.nasa.gov/history/
Sally K. Ride (Ph.D.) NASA Astronaut (DECEASED)
Archived in WayBack Machine
From NASA's Biographical Data.
Dead link when checked 1/17/2017 http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ride-sk.html
Who Was Sally Ride?
This article is part of the NASA Knows! (Grades 5-8) series.
See also: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/who-was-sally-ride-k4.htm - Who Was Sally Ride? Grades K-4
Grades 5-8 archived in WayBack Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20240901000000*/https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/for-kids-and-students/who-was-sally-ride-grades-5-8/
Video Library from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Sally Ride on Dumb Questions
From Blank on Blank | PBS Digital Studios

"Astronaut Sally Ride and the Burden of Being The First" by Ann Friedman. The American Prospect. June 19, 2014 http://prospect.org/article/astronaut-sally-ride-and-burden-being-first. Page says "This article will appear in the July/August issue of The American Prospect magazine."
"Sally Ride" Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2012/09/sally-ride Page states: "From the September 2012 Issue". Includes audio file of the interview
"An Honest Biography of Sally Ride" By Sarah Scoles.The Slate.com. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/10/sally_ride_s_partner_tam_o_shaughnessy_wrote_a_children_s_book_about_their.html

Sally Ride: First American Woman in Space
Image Gallery from NASA, on Sally Ride, first U.S. woman in space. Please check to see if NASA has information on use/limitation of use of their images.
Archived in WayBack Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20250601000000*/https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/first-american-woman-space/

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