NASA's Scientist-Astronauts (Springer Praxis Books)

This book provides unique access to the story of how scientists were accepted into the American Space Programme, and reveals how, after four difficult decades, the role of the heroic test pilot astronaut has been replaced by men and women who are science orientated space explorers.

• Story: The Way of Water
• Come Fly with Us: NASA's Payload Specialist Program (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
• The Last of NASA's Original Pilot Astronauts: Expanding the Space Frontier in the Late Sixties (Springer Praxis Books)
• The Astronaut Maker: How One Mysterious Engineer Ran Human Spaceflight for a Generation