This is a list of the NASA Headquarters Library's newest acquisitions. Please feel free to come in and browse these items and/or the rest of our collection. Call (202) 358-0168 or send an e-mail to Denise.Hedrick@hq.nasa.gov for more information. <br /><br />------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------<br /><br /><br />Advanced Space Propulsion Systems <br />Martin Tajmar <br />MAIN CIRCULATING: TL782 .T34 2003<br /><br /><br />America’s Sentinels: The National Reconnaissance Office: Its Mission, History and People <CDROM><br /> National Reconnaissance Office, Office of the Historian<br /> MAIN CIRCULATING: UG1523 .N36 2002<br /><br /><br />Apollo’s Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination<br /> Denis Cosgrove<br /> MAIN CIRCULATING: G71.5 .C68 2001<br /><br />“Long before we had the ability to photograph the earth from spaceto see our planet as it would be seen by the Greek god Apolloimages of the earth as a globe had captured popular imagination. In Apollo’s Eye, geographer Denis Cosgrove examines the historical implications for the West of conceiving and representing the earth as a globe: a unified, spherical body. Cosgrove traces how ideas of globalism and globalization have shifted historically in relation to changing images of the earth, from antiquity to the Space Age. He connects the evolving image of a unified globe to politically powerful conceptions of human unity. <br /><br />Cosgrove constructs a genealogy of global images from classical Greece and Rome to the present, giving special attention to the early sixteenth century, when Europeans circumnavigated the earth, relocated it within their understanding of the cosmos, and revolutionized its representation in models and maps. Each chapter focuses on specific images of the globe or whole earth, reproduced in a wealth of illustrations.<br /><br />Cosgrove’s analysis traces a pattern of associations between global images and the formation of Western identities, paying tribute to the richly complex cosmographic tradition out of which today’s geographical imagination has emerged.”<br /><br /><br />Challenger’s Shadow: Did Government and Industry Management Kill Seven Astronauts <br /> John C. Macidull and Lester E. Blattner<br />MAIN CIRCULATING: TL867 .M32 2002<br /><br /><br />Defense’s Nuclear Agency, 1947-1997 <br /> Christian Brahmstedt <ed.> <br /> MAIN CIRCULATING: U264.3 .D42 2002<br /><br /><br />Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System<br /> Bruce Dorminey<br /> MAIN CIRCULATING: QB820 .D67 2002<br /><br />“After decades of high-tech searches, astronomers are just now beginning to reap the rewards of their hunt for ‘distant wanderers’planets in orbit around stars outside our own Solar System. Armed with new tools and techniques, these star-gazing scientists have made enormous strides in planet-searching in the last few years, and the results of their efforts are nothing short of spectacular.<br /><br />In a refreshing and accessible narrative, veteran science journalist Bruce Dorminey explains what’s already been found and what’s likely to be found as astronomers gaze ever further and more keenly into space. T he early returns, he reports, are amazing: Planets come in all shapes and sizes. They are searingly hot and abysmally cold. Some have nearly circular stable orbits, others follow wildly elliptical paths. And some are so strange that they challenge the very definition of the word ‘planet,’ or seem to reverse our long-held notions of the roles of planet and star.<br /><br />In interviews with dozens of key astronomers, planetary theorists, astrobiologists, and other scientists, Dorminey shows us how the highly competitive global search for new planets is opening up a great new frontierand a view into unimaginable and totally unexpected phenomena. And he invites us to speculate, as we must, about what all these discoveries may tell us about extraterrestrial life, about the possibility of space colonization, and about the special place of our own planet and ourselves in the cosmos.” <br /><br /><br />Fracture and Fatigue Control in Structures: Applications of Fracture Mechanics <br />John M. Barsom, Stanley T. Rolfe <br /> MAIN CIRCULATING: TA409 .B37 1999 <br /><br /><br />An Introduction to Management Science: Quantitative Approaches to Decision Making<br /> David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, Thomas A. Williams<br /> PROJECT MANAGEMENT: HD30.25 .A53 2003<br /><br /><br />Introduction to Nuclear Engineering<br /> John R. Lamarsh, Anthony J. Baratta<br />MAIN CIRCULATING: TK9145 .L28 2001<br /><br /><br />Italian I <audiocassette><br /> Simon & Schuster Audio<br /> AUDIO COLLECTION: PC1112.7 .I83 2002<br /><br /><br />Jack: Straight From the Gut<br /> Jack Welch with John A. Byrne<br /> MAIN CIRCULATING: HD9697.A3 U568 2001<br /><br />“As CEO of General Electric for the past twenty years, he has built its market cap by more than $450 billion and established himself as the most admired business leader in the world. His championing of initiatives like Six Sigma quality, globalization, and e-business have helped define the modern corporation. At the same time, he’s a gutsy boss who has forged a unique philosophy and an operating system that relies on a ‘boundaryless’ sharing of ideas, an intense focus on people, and an informal, give-and-take style that makes bureaucracy the enemy. In anecdotal detail and with self-effacing humor, Jack Welch gives us the people (most notably his Irish mother) who shaped his life and the big hits and the big misses that characterized his career. “<br /><br /><br />A Manager’s Guide to Hiring the Best Person for Every Job<br /> DeAnne Rosenberg<br />MAIN CIRCULATING: HF5549.5.I6 R67 2000<br /><br /><br />Nuclear Energy: An Introduction to the Concepts, Systems, and Applications of Nuclear Processes <br />Raymond L. Murray <br /> MAIN CIRCULATING: TK9145 .M87 2001<br /><br /><br />Nuclear Reactor Physics <br /> Weston M. Stacey<br />MAIN CIRCULATING: TK9145 .S73 2001<br /><br /><br />On the Frontier: Experimental Flight at NASA Dryden<br />Richard P. Hallion and Michael H. Gorn<br /> MAIN CIRCULATING: TL521.312.D1 H33 2003<br /><br />“The most comprehensive and authoritative history of flight-testing experimental aircraft and spacecraft is reborn. This little-known classic history of the X-planes has been sweepingly revised and updated with new and recently released information, making it up-to-the-moment current. Aviation enthusiasts will savor the most detailed account available of record-setting aircraft like the X-1 and X-15, flown by Chuck Yeager and other legends, as well as all the cutting-edge NASA and Defense Department programs that perfected the aeronautical concepts and technology used in U.S. military, space, and commercial craft. <br /><br />World-renowned Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert is the setting for the exciting, dangerous, and sometimes deadly job of testing the world’s most exotic aircraft. Authors Hallion and Gorn, two of America’s top aerospace historians, focus on the unique relationship between test pilots and their machines. A completely updated and reinterpreted text, three new chapters, dozens of rare photographs, and the complete statistical record of nearly six decades of testing make this required reading for anyone interested in human flight. <br /><br /><br />The Origins of Space Law and the International Institute of Space Law of the International Astronautical Federation<br /> Stephen E. Doyle<br />MAIN CIRCULATING: KZD1024 .D69 2002<br /><br /><br />Patents, Citation and Innovations: A Window on the Knowledge Economy <br />Adam B. Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg <br /> MAIN CIRCULATING: T211 .J34 2002<br /><br />Innovation and technological change, for decades recognized as the main drivers of long-term economic growth, are elusive notions that are difficult to conceptualize and even harder to measure in a consistent, systematic way. This book demonstrates the usefulness of patents and citations data as a window on the process of technological change and as a powerful tool for research on the economics of innovation. Patent records contain a wealth of information, including the inventors’ identity, location, and employer, as well as the technological field of the invention. Patents also contain citation references to previous patents, which allow one to trace links across inventions.<br /><br />The book lays out the conceptual foundations for such research and provides a range of interesting applications, such as examining the geographic pattern of knowledge spillovers and evaluating the impact of university and government patenting. It also describes statistical tools designed to handle methodological problems raised by the patent and citation processes. The book includes a CD containing complete data on 3 million patents with more than 16 million citations and a range of author-devised measures of the importance, generality, and originality of patented innovations.” <br /><br /><br />Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling <br />Harold Kerzner <br />PROJECT MANAGEMENT: HD69.P75 K47 2003<br /><br /><br />Space: The Free-Market Frontier<br />Edward L. Hudgins <ed.><br /> MAIN CIRCULATING: HD9711.75.U62 S69 2002<br /><br />“Is NASA lost in space? For years, private enterprise has been poised to explore outer space and deliver benefits to people on earthfrom perfecting new life-saving medicines to creating new food crops and operating floating factories for high tech innovations. But NASA’s bureaucracy has been floundering, erecting legal and regulatory barriers to entrepreneurs wishing to take advantage of operating in space.<br /><br />On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon. At that time most Americans found it difficult to imagine that the vision presented in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey would not be in our future. Many thought that by 2001 there would be regularly scheduled commercial flights to orbiting hotels, but no such flights have materialized. In fact, fewer than 500 human beings have ever ventured into space. And the International Space Station is billions of dollars over budget and radically scaled back from its initial design. What has happened in the past three decades to delay mankind’s full exploitation of space?<br /><br />The cause of the problems is found in public policy. Civilian space efforts have been dominated by NASA, a bureaucratic agency that has retarded activities in space as much as it has facilitated them. Yet, at the same time that NASA has been lost in space, entrepreneurs on earth have given birth to the computer and to telecom and Internet revolutions. Private markets are the answer.<br /><br />In Space: The Free-Market Frontier, leading experts analyze how we can move from the current situation of limited access to space and truly make space a place where people can work, play, and live. Edited by Edward L. Hudgins, and adjunct scholar for the Cato Institute, this book considers how we arrived at our current situation, what signs hold the promise of a free-market future, and which policy changes might enable space to become the next free-market frontier.” <br /><br /><br />The Space Elevator<br /> Bradley C. Edwards, Eric A. Westling <br /> MAIN CIRCULATING: TL790 .S63 2002<br /><br /> <br />Space Tourism: Economic and Technical Evaluation of Suborbital Space Flight for Tourism<br /> Robert A. Goehlich<br /> MAIN CIRCULATING: HD9711.75.A2 G64 2002<br /><br /><br />Splendid Vision, Unswerving Purpose: Developing Air Power for the United States Air Force During the First Century of Powered Flight<br /> History Office, Aeronautical Systems Center, Air Force Material Command<br /> MAIN CIRCULATING: TL568.W75 S66 2002<br /><br /><br />The Systems Thinking Approach to Strategic Planning and Management<br /> Stephen G. Haines<br /> PROJECT MANAGEMENT: HD30.28 .H33 2000<br /><br /><br />We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race<br /> Thomas P. Stafford with Michael Cassutt <br /> MAIN CIRCULATING: TL789.85.S73 S73 2002<br /><br />“Tom Stafford attained the highest speed ever reached by a test pilot [28,547 mph], carried a cosmonaut’s coffin with Soviet Secretary Leonid Breshnev, led the team that designed the sequence of missions leading to the original lunar landing, and drafted the original specifications for the B-2 stealth bomber on a piece of hotel stationery. But his crowning achievement is surely his role as America’s unofficial space ambassador to the Soviet Union during the darkest days of the Cold War.<br /><br />In this lively memoir written with Michael Cassutt, Stafford begins by recounting his early successes as a test pilot, Gemini and Apollo astronaut, and USAF general. As President Nixon’s stand-in at the 1971 Soviet funeral for three cosmonauts, he opened the door to the possibility of cooperation in space between Russians and Americans. Stafford’s Apollo-Soyuz team was the first group of Americans to work at the cosmonaut training center, and also the first to visit Baikonur, the top-secret Soviet launch center, in 1974. His 1975 ‘handshake in space’ with Soviet commander Aleksei Leonov [who became a lifelong friend] proved to the world that the two opposing countries could indeed work successfully together.<br /><br />Stafford has continued in this leadership role right up to the present, participating in designing and evaluating the Space Shuttle, Mir and the International Space Station. He is truly an American hero who personifies the broadest spirit of exploration and cooperation. <br /><br /><br />What Works: A New Approach to Program and Policy Analysis<br /> Kenneth J. Meier, Jeff Gill<br /> MAIN CIRCULATING: H97 .M44 2000<br /><br /><br />Who’s Who of NASA Astronauts <br />Lee Ellis <br /> READY REFERENCE: TL789.85.A1 E44 2001<br /><br />------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br />Loan periods are as follows:<br /><br />2 WEEKS:<br /> AUDIO COLLECTION (except language audios)<br /> PROJECT MANAGEMENT (audios and videos)<br /> VIDEO COLLECTION (all videos)<br /><br />4 WEEKS:<br /> MAIN CIRCULATING<br /> PROJECT MANAGEMENT (books)<br /> STAFF COLLECTION<br /> LANGUAGE AUDIO COLLECTION<br /> CAREER<br /><br />NON-CIRCULATING ITEMS:<br /> READY REFERENCE<br /> REFERENCE<br /> CAREER REFERENCE