NASA Historical Data Book, Volumes I–III

NASA SP-4012 in the NASA Historical Series, a three-volume reference set sponsored by the NASA History Office. Volume I, NASA Resources 1958–1968, is by Jane Van Nimmen and Leonard C. Bruno with Robert L. Rosholt — also the author of An Administrative History of NASA, 1958–1963 (SP-4101), a copy of which, hand-signed by NASA Administrator James E. Webb, is elsewhere in this collection — and carries a foreword by Deputy Administrator George M. Low dated April 20, 1974; its six chapters cover NASA facilities, personnel, finances, procurement, and installations, with an appendix of major NASA organization charts. Volumes II and III, both by Linda Neuman Ezell (prefaces dated Spring 1982 and Fall 1985), cover Programs and Projects for 1958–1968 and 1969–1978 respectively — launch vehicles, manned spaceflight, space science, space applications, aeronautics and space research, and tracking and data acquisition — with a data sheet for each flight project describing the spacecraft, experiments, participants, and contractors. This matching set was issued by NASA’s Scientific and Technical Information Division in 1988.