US Biomedical Space Research Timeline - on the NASA Neurolab site
Rocketry Through the Ages - a pictorial presentation from the
NASA Marshall Space Flight
Center History Office
The New York Times on AOL: Sputnik - newspaper articles from the early days of space
exploration
Army in Space - early space exploration by the U.S. Army and NASA
NASA Image eXchange - searchable archive of NASA images
Soviet Dogs in Space: Their Stories on Stamps
Beischer, Dietrich E., and Alfred R. Fregly,
Animals and man in space; a chronology and annotated
bibliography through the year 1960, 97 p. tables.,
Office of Naval Research, Dept. of the Navy, Washington, 1962.
Bergwin, Clyde R., and William T. Coleman, Animal astronauts; they
opened the way to the stars, 207 p. illus., Prentice-Hall,
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1963.
Diamond, Edward, and Stephen Bates, Sputnik, American Heritage, vol. 48,
no. 6, pp. 84-93, October 1997.
Rey, H. A., Curious George Gets a Medal,
Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 1993.
If you have trouble finding some of these books at your local public library, try a university medical school library or school of veterinary medicine library. You can also try searching library catalogs for Library of Congress subjects "Space medicine--Research" or "Aviation medicine" for further information.
The NASA Home Page
The University of Minnesota Space Physics Home Page
