Library Guides: Space Exploration: Books

LC Subject Headings

There are many considerations to keep in mind when researching space exploration, including sustainability, transportation, fuel consumption, planet habitability, and so on. Many books on the topic will be under the following subject headings or their narrower terms:

Sample Books in the Main Collection

Space exploration

Editor: Daniel A. Leone

Published: 2005

ISBN: 0737727489

Call number: TL789.8.U5 S575 2005

Deep space propulsion [electronic resource] : a roadmap to interstellar flight

Author: K. F. Long

Published: 2012

ISBN: 1461406072

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Call number: TL782 .L66 2012

Space enterprise [electronic resource] : living and working offworld in the 21st century

Author: Philip R. Harris

Published: 2009

ISBN: 0387776400

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Call number: TL795.7 .H38 2009

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