title: Nasa: The Complete Illustrated History
author: Michael Gorn
description: "If you read just one book on the history of NASA make it this one. You will not be disappointed."<br />Dr. David Baker<br />Editor, <i>Jane's Space Directory</i><br />--NASA: The Complete Illustrated History (jacket cover, paperback edition)<br /><br />"As a single-volume history of US space exploration, this volume is unmatched. [I]t provides compulsive reading to anyone even vaguely interested in the subject."<br />Denis J. Calvert<br /> --Aircraft Illustrated (U.K.)<br /><br />"If you want a well-illustrated and authoritative account of NASA's rise to become the world's biggest space agency, then this is the book for you."<br />Will Gator<br /> --Focus Magazine (British Broadcasting Corporation)<br /><br />"Space fans will adore <i>NASA: The Complete Illustrated History</i>, a superbly produced record by Michael Gorn."<br />Clive Cookson<br /> --The Financial Times of London<br /><br />"Michael Gorn's Illustrated History is sure to elicit emotion from its readers. [I]t is filled with the triumphs and tragedies that define [NASA's] conquest of the heavens."<br />David Tytell<br /> --Sky and Telescope
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  Number 10
  Volume 45
  May 29, 2007
  
  NASA STI Program ... in Profile 
   
   
  Since its founding, NASA has been dedicated 
  to the advancement of aeronautics and space 
  science. The NASA scientific and technical 
  information (STI) program plays a key part in 
  helping NASA maintain this important role. 
  The NASA STI program operates under the 
  auspices of the Agency Chief Information 
  Officer. It collects, organizes, provides for 
  archiving, and disseminates NASA’s STI. The 
  NASA STI program provides access to the 
  NASA Aeronautics and Space Database and its 
  public interface, the NASA Technical Report 
  Server, thus providing one of the largest 
  collections of aeronautical and space science 
  STI in the world. Results are published in both 
  non-NASA channels and by NASA in the 
  NASA STI Report Series, which includes the 
  following report types: 
  • 
  TECHNICAL PUBLICATION. Reports of 
  completed research or a major significant 
  phase of research that present the results of 
  NASA Programs and incl