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    Further reading on European space history

    • Alleati competitivi
      Origni e sviluppo della cooperazione spaziale fra Europa e Stati Uniti 1957-1973
      Lorenza Sebesta
      Editori Laterza 2003
      ISBN 88-420-6938-8

    • Ariane, une épopée européenne.
      William Huon, ETAI 2007
      208 pages
      ISBN: 978-2-7268-8709-7 €48.00

    • Cap sure les etoiles. L'aventure spatiale francaise.
      Pierre Chiquet. Editeur: JML 2005
      ISBN: 2-84928-087-9 €24.00

    • La contribution de la Belgique à l’aventure spatiale européenne Des origins à 1973
      Dawinka Laureys
      Beauchesne, Paris 2008*

    • Cooperating for Success: 200 Meetings of the ESA Council 1975-2008
      Edited by C. Walker
      ESA BR-272
      (May 2008)

    • Europe in Space 1960-1973
      John Krige and Arturo Russo
      ESA SP-1172
      (September 1994)

    • Le Général Robert Aubinière
      Propos d'un des pères de la conquête spatiale française
      Robert Aubinière et André Lebeau
      L’Harmatton, Paris 2008

    • Geschichte der deutschen Raumfahrtpolitik
      Konzepte, Einflußfaktoren und Interdependenzen 1923-2002
      Niklas Reinke
      Schriften des Forschungsinstituts der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e.V.
      1. Auflage
      2004. 602 S., Abb.: 73, bound
      ISBN 3-486-56842-6 €49.80

    • The History of the European Space Agency
      Proceedings of an International Symposium
      London, 11-13 November 1998
      ESA SP-436
      (June 1999)

    • The History of German Space Policy*
      Ideas, influences, and interdependence 1923-2002
      Niklas Reinke
      Translated by Barry Smerin and Barbara Wilson
      Beauchesne, Paris 2007

    • International Cooperation in Space: The Example of the European Space Agency
      Roger-M. Bonnet, Vittorio Manno
      Frontiers of Space series Harvard University Press, 1994
      163 pages ISBN: 0674458354, 9780674458352

    • Italy in Space
      In search of a strategy 1957-1975
      Michelangelo de Maria and Lucia Orlando
      Beauchesne, Paris 2008*

    • Making Sense of Space
      The history of Norwegian space activities
      Edited by John Peter Collett
      Scandinavian University Press
      Oslo-Stockholm, Copenhagen, Boston
      (1995)

    • A Nordic Satellite Project Understood as a Trans-national Effort.
      Nina Wormbs
      In: History and Technology Vol. 22, No. 3, September 2006, pp.257-75

    • A Place in Space
      The history of Swiss participation in European space programmes 1960-1987
      Stephan Zellmeyer
      Beauchesne, Paris 2008*

    • Proceedings of the Workshop on the History of Spacelab
      ESTEC, Noordwijk, NL
      22-23 April 1997
      ESA SP-411
      (July 1997)

    • A Short History of Irish Space Activities
      Paul Clancy
      ESA HSR-40

    • The Skylark Rocket
      British Space Science and the European Space Research Organisation 1957-1972
      Matthew Godwin
      Beauchesne, Paris 2008*

    • Spain and the European Space Effort
      Edited by José María Dorado Gutiérez
      Beauchesne, Paris 2008*

    • The Story of ESRO's Sounding Rocket Programme:
      In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the
      first ESRO Sunding Rocket launch
      ESA BR-60
      (September 1989)

    • La Suisse, l'Europe et l'Espace
      Fondation Jean Monnet pour l'Europe
      Centre de recherches européennes
      Lausanne
      (December 2000) German version also available.

    • Suomalaisen Avaruustutkimuksen Historia
      Ilkka Seppinen
      Helsinki University Press 2004
      ISBN 951-570-573-8

    • Sweden in Space:
      Swedish space activities 1959-1972
      Jan Stiernstedt
      ESA SP-1248
      (March 2001)

    • La Terra Vista Dall’alto
      Breve storia della militarizzazione dello spazio
      Lorenza Sebesta and Filippo Pigliacelli
      Carocci editore, Rome 2008

    • Twenty Years of the ESA Convention
      Proceedings of an International Symposium
      Munich, Germany
      4-6 September 1995
      ESA SP-387
      (November 1995)

    • The 20 Years of the Ariane Programme
      Proceedings of a colloquium held on 30 July 1993, at the Palais d'Egmont-Arenberg
      Place du Peti Sablon 8
      1000 Bruxelles
      Published by ESA

    • Der Wissenschaftsmacher
      Reimar Lüst im Gespräch mit Paul Nolte
      C.H. Beck, Munich 2008

      * These books are part of the Explorations, Studies in Modern Science and Technology series from the International Academy of the History of Science (Director, Robert Halleux)

    Last update: 9 December 2009

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