Non-Fiction Books about the Moon
a partial list
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MAPPING THE MOON
Mapping and Naming the Moon : A History of Lunar Cartography and Nomenclature
- by Ewen A. Whitaker (Author) (Paperback )
- Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback
- Paperback: 264 pages; Dimensions (inches): 0.64 x 9.74 x 7.44
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press; (December 11, 2003)
- ISBN: 0521544149
Who's Who on the Moon: A Biographical Dictionary of Lunar Nomenclature
- by Elijah E. Cocks, Josiah C. Cocks
- Hardcover: 600 pages; Dimensions (inches): 1.75 x 9 x 6
- Publisher: Tudor Publishers; (August 1995)
- ISBN: 0936389273
THE APOLLO PROGRAM
The Lunar Men : Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World
- by Jenny Uglow (Author) (Paperback, Hardcover )
- Paperback: 608 pages; Dimensions (inches): 1.57 x 8.22 x 5.48
- Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux; (October 1, 2003)
- ISBN: 0374528888
Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module
- (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight Series)
- by Thomas J. Kelly (Hardcover - May 2001)
- Hardcover: 288 pages; Dimensions (inches): 1.08 x 9.33 x 6.37
- Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press; (May 2001)
- ISBN: 156098998X
Apollo Eecom: Journey of a Lifetime
- (Apogee Books Space Series)
- by Sy Liebergot, David M. Harland (Contributor), Ron Howard
- Hardcover: 216 pages; Dimensions (inches): 0.82 x 10.04 x 6.96
- Publisher: Apogee Books; Book and CD-ROM edition (April 2003)
- ISBN: 1896522963
Taking Science to the Moon: Lunar Experiments and the Apollo Program
- (New Series in Nasa History)
- by Donald A. Beattie (Hardcover - July 2001, Paperback)
- Hardcover: 336 pages; Dimensions (inches): 1.12 x 9.22 x 6.23
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; (July 2001)
- ISBN: 0801865999
Apollo and America's Moon Landing Program: Lunar Module Reference
- by World Spaceflight News (Ring-bound )
- Ring-bound: 157 pages
- Publisher: Progressive Management; 1st edition (May 8, 2000)
- ISBN: 1893472078
Chariots for Apollo: The Making of the Lunar Module
- by Joshua Stoff, Charles R., Bib Pellegrino
- Hardcover | Paperback
- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Scribner; (November 1985)
- ASIN: 0689115598
Appointment on the Moon: The Full Story of Americans in Space, from Explorer I to the Lunar Landing and Beyond
- by Richard S., Lewis
- Hardcover
- Publisher: Viking Press; (November 1969)
- ASIN: 0670129690
Eagle has landed; the story of lunar exploration
- by Don Dwiggins
- 80 pages
- Publisher: Golden Gate Junior Books; (1970)
- ASIN: 0874641403
Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Mission
- by William D. Compton
- Paperback: 429 pages; Dimensions (inches): 1.00 x 10.00 x 7.00
- Publisher: Government Printing Office; (August 1989)
- ASIN: 0160042534
Apollo: Ten Years Since Tranquillity Base
- by Richard P. Hallion
- Hardcover: ; Dimensions (inches): 1.00 x 10.50 x 8.75
- Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press; (August 1979)
- ASIN: 0874745063
Moon: Man's Greatest Adventure.
- by Davis. Thomas
- Hardcover
- Publisher: Harry N Abrams; (January 1970)
- ASIN: 0810903121
Moon Shot : The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
- by Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, Howard Benedict
- Hardcover: 383 pages; Dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x 9.25 x 6.50
- Publisher: Turner Pub; (May 1994)
- ASIN: 1878685546
Men from Earth
- by Buzz Aldrin
- Hardcover
- Publisher: Bantam ; (June 1, 1989)
- ASIN: 0553053744
First on the Moon
- by Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin
- Hardcover: 434 pages
- Publisher: William s Konecky Assoc; (October 15, 2002)
- ISBN: 156852398X
Apollo 13 : Lost Moon
- by Jim Lovell
- Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages; Dimensions (inches): 1.02 x 6.82 x 4.20
- Publisher: Pocket Books; Reissue edition (July 1, 1995)
- ISBN: 0671534645
Apollo 13: The NASA Mission Reports
- (Apogee Books Space Series)
- by Robert Godwin
- Paperback: 264 pages; Dimensions (in inches): 0.60 x 9.98 x 6.93
- Publisher: Collector's Guide Pub; Book and CD-ROM edition (March 22, 2000)
- ISBN: 1896522556
The Last Man on the Moon : Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space
- by Don Davis
- Hardcover: 356 pages; Dimensions (in inches): 1.19 x 9.70 x 6.12
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press; (March 15, 1999)
- ISBN: 0312199066
We reach the Moon; the New York times story of man's greatest adventure
- by John Noble Wilford
- Mass Market Paperback: 331 pages (1969)
- ASIN: B00005X54B
Apollo: An Eyewitness Account
- By Astronaut/Explorer Artist/Moonwalker
- Alan Bean (Illustrator), John Glenn (Introduction),
- Andrew L. Chaikin (Contributor)
- [for art lovers]
- Hardcover: 176 pages; Dimensions (inches): 0.96 x 12.29 x 9.33
- Publisher: Greenwich Pr Ltd; (October 1998)
- ISBN: 0867130504
LUNAR SCIENCE
To a Rocky Moon: A Geologist's History of Lunar Exploration
- by Don E. Wilhelms
- Dimensions (inches): 1.50 x 9.25 x 6.25
- Publisher: University of Arizona Press; (January 1994)
- ASIN: 0816514437
Lunar Exploration: Human Pioneers and Robotic Surveyors
- (Springer-Praxis Books in Astronomy and Space Sciences)
- by Paolo Ulivi, David M Harland (Paperback - January 2004)
- Paperback: 300 pages
- Publisher: Springer Verlag; (January 2004)
- ISBN: 185233746X
Moon Morphology: Interpretations Based on Lunar Orbiter Photography
- by Peter H. Schultz
- Publisher: Univ of Texas Press; (June 1976)
- ASIN: 0292750366
The Book of the Moon: A Lunar Introduction to Astronomy, Geology, Space Physics, and Space Travel
- by Thomas A. Hockey
- Paperback: 273 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Paper); (June 1986)
- ASIN: 0130799637
The Lunar Rocks
- by Brian Harold, Mason, William G. Melson
- Textbook Binding: 179 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; (January 1970)
- ASIN: 0471575305
Handbook of Soviet Lunar & Planetary Exploration
- by Nicholas L. Johnson (Hardcover - December 1979)
- Hardcover: 276 pages
- Publisher: Univelt; (December 1979)
- ISBN: 0877031053 |
Planetary Science: A Lunar Perspective
- by Stuart Ross, Taylor
- Hardcover
- Publisher: Lunar & Planetary Institute; (March 1982)
- ASIN: 0942862007
Lunar Science - A Post-Apollo View
- by Taylor
- Publisher: Pergamon Press; (October 1975)
- ASIN: 0080182739
Moon Rocks and Minerals: Scientific Results of the Study of the Apollo 11 Lunar Samples With Preliminary Data on Apollo 12 Samples
- by Alfred Abraham Levinson
- Publisher: Pergamon Press; (December 1972)
- ASIN: 0080166695
The Geologic History of the Moon
- U.S. Geological Survey, Professional paper 1348
- United States Government Printing Office
- Washington, 1987
21st Century Guide to the Clementine Lunar Mission and Images, Finding of Ice at South Pole, Albedo Maps
- by World Spaceflight News (CD-ROM )
- CD-ROM: 1456 pages
- Publisher: Progressive Management; (January 27, 2003)
- ISBN: 1592481361
Space Manufacturing 5: Engineering With Lunar and Asteroidal Materials
- by Gregg Maryniak (Hardcover - June 1986)
- Hardcover: 268 pages
- Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; (June 1986)
- ISBN: 093040307X
Lunar Sourcebook : A User's Guide to the Moon
- by Grant Heiken (Editor), et al
- Hardcover: 756 pages; Dimensions (inches): 1.69 x 10.33 x 7.44
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press; (April 26, 1991)
- ASIN: 0521334446
The Once and Future Moon
- by Paul Spudis
- Smithsopnian Institution Press
- Washington, 1996
- ISBN 1-56098-634-4
What If the Moon Didn't Exist?: Voyages to Earths That Might Have Been
- by Neil F. Comins
- Paperback: 336 pages; Dimensions (in inches): 0.75 x 8.00 x 5.25
- Publisher: Harperperennial Library; Reprint edition (January 1995)
- ASIN: 0060925566
LUNAR RESOURCES & DEVELOPMENT
Mining technology for lunar resource utilization
- (SuDoc I 28.155:OFR-37-91)
- by John A. Siekmeier
- Publisher: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines; (1990)
- ASIN: B00010NI7G
Human exploration and settlement of the moon using LUNOX-augmented NTR propulsion
- (SuDoc NAS 1.15:107093)
- by Stanley K. Borowski
- Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Technical Information Service, distributor; (1995)
- ASIN: B00010QNZ0
LUNAR OUTPOSTS
Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century
- by W.W. Mendell (Editor)
- Paperback
- Publisher: Lunar & Planetary Institute; (January 1986)
- ASIN: 0942862023
The Lunar Base Handbook
- by Peter Eckart, Buzz Aldrin (Paperback )
- Paperback: 888 pages; Dimensions (inches): 1.00 x 9.00 x 6.00
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Primis Custom Publishing; 1 edition (December 1, 1999)
- ISBN: 0072401710
Lunar Bases
- (First Books)
- by Sharon Cosner
- School & Library Binding; Dimensions (inches): 0.25 x 8.75 x 7.50
- Publisher: Franklin Watts, Incorporated; (February 1990)
- ASIN: 0531108945
Back to the Moon: Mankind Returns to the Lunar Surface
- by Kevin M. Caruso (Hardcover - January 2001)
- Hardcover: 282 pages
- Publisher: Aerospace 1 Publications; (January 2001)
- ISBN: 0970515006
Lunar Base Agriculture: Soils for Plant Growth
- by D.W. Ming, D.L. Henninger (Hardcover - August 1989)
- Publisher: Amer Society of Agronomy; (August 1989)
- ISBN: 0891181008
Genesis II: Advanced Lunar Outpost
- by Gary T. Moore (Editor) (Paperback - June 1991)
- Paperback: ; Dimensions (inches): 0.25 x 8.50 x 11.00
- Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Milwaukee; (June 1991)
- ISBN: 0938744747
The Moon : Resources, Future Development and Colonization
- by David Schrunk (Author), et al (Hardcover )
- Hardcover: 466 pages; Dimensions (inches): 1.15 x 9.77 x 6.85
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; (October 22, 1999)
- ISBN: 0471976350
ASTRONOMY FROM THE MOON
Design of a lunar farside observatory final report
- (SuDoc NAS 1.26:186671)
- by NASA
- Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Technical Information Service, distributor; (1989)
- ASIN: B00010LNPA
Optical Astronomy from the Earth and Moon:
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific Summer Scientific Meeting, San Diego, California 13-15 July 1993 (Ast)
- by Diane M. Pyper, Ronald J. Angione (Editor) (Hardcover - April 1994)
- Hardcover: ; Dimensions (inches): 1.00 x 9.50 x 6.50
- Publisher: Astronomical Society Pacific; (April 1994)
- ISBN: 0937707740
Astronomy and Space Science from the Moon
- by B. H. Foing (Editor)
- Paperback: 290 pages; Dimensions (inches): 0.50 x 11.00 x 7.50
- Publisher: Pergamon Press; (November 1, 1994)
- ASIN: 008042483X
Astrophysics from the Moon/Proposed Optical Interferometer With Automated Deployment
- (Aip Conference Proceedings, No 207)
- by Michael J. Mumma (Editor), Harlan J. Smith (Editor) (Hardcover - May 1992)
- Hardcover: 656 pages
- Publisher: Springer Verlag; (May 1992)
- ISBN: 0883187701
OBSERVING THE MOON
Welcome to the Moon: Twelve Lunar Expeditions for Small Telescopes
- by Robert Bruce Kelsey (Paperback - June 2003)
- [Beginners]
- Paperback: 111 pages; Dimensions (inches): 0.28 x 8.53 x 5.54
- Publisher: Naturegraph Pub; (June 2003)
- ISBN: 0879612452
Exploring the Moon Through Binoculars and Small Telescopes
- by Ernest H. Cherrington
- Paperback: 240 pages; Dimensions (inches): 0.56 x 11.00 x 8.28
- Publisher: Dover Pubns, 1984
- ISBN: 0486244911
A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings
- by Harold Hill
- Practical Astronomy Handbooks 1
- Cambridge University Press, 1991
- ISBN 0 521 38113 4 hardback
PHOTOGRAPHIC ATLASES
Lunar Photographs from Apollos 8, 10, and 11
- NASA SP-246
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Washington, 1971
- Library of Congress 75-608546
A New Photographic Atlas of the Moon
- by Zdenek Kopal
- Taplinger Publishing Company, New York, 1971
- ISBN 0-8008-5515-9
Full Moon
- by Michael Light
- Alfred A. Kopf, 1999
- ISBN 0-375-40634-4
see also The Geologic History of the Moon
under the heading LUNAR SCIENCE
CHILDREN'S BOOKS ON THE MOON
see Welcome to the Moon: Twelve Lunar Expeditions for Small Telescopes
under the section OBSERVING THE MOON
What the Moon is Like
- by Franklyn M. Branley
- illustrated by True Kelley
- Harper & Row - Harper Trophy, 1986
- ISBN 0-06-445052-X paperback
Home on the Moon: Living on a Space Frontier (Highest recommendation!)
- by Marianne J. Dyson
- National Geographic
- Washington DC, 2003
- ISBN 0-7922-7193-9 hardcover