Publications

BOOKS WRITTEN

• Historical Analogs for the Stimulation of Space Commercialization. Washington, DC: NASA SP-2014-4554, 20014.
• Coming Home: Reentry and Recovery from Space. Washington, DC: NASA SP-2011-593, 2012. Co-authored with Dennis R. Jenkins.
• Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball’s Super Showman. New York: Walker and Co., 2010. Co-authored with G. Michael Green.
• Smithsonian Atlas of Space Exploration. New York: HarperCollins, 2009. Co-authored with Andrew K. Johnston.
• Robots in Space: Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Co-authored with Howard E. McCurdy.
• Space: A Journey to Our Future. San Diego, CA: Tehabi Books, 2004.
• Space Stations: Base Camps to the Stars. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2003. Revised edition, 2009. Recipient of the 2003 AIAA History Manuscript Award.
• Seasons in the Sun: The Story of Big League Baseball in Missouri. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002.
• Imagining Space: Achievements, Possibilities, Projections, 1950-2050. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2001. Co-authored with Howard E. McCurdy.
• The C-5 Galaxy History: Crushing Setbacks, Decisive Achievements. Paducah, KY: Turner Publishing Co., 2001. Co-authored with B.I. Dvorscak.
• NASA & the Exploration of Space. New York: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, 1998. Co-authored with Bertram Ulrich.
• Frontiers of Space Exploration, “Critical Events in the Twentieth Century” series. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998, Second Edition, 2003.
• Alexander William Doniphan: Portrait of a Missouri Moderate, “Missouri Biography Series.” Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997.
• NASA: A History of the U.S. Civil Space Program. Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing Co., 1994, 2d printing 1995, simultaneous hardcover and paperback editions, second edition 2000. The Anvil Series, Louis L. Snyder, General Editor.
• Anything, Anywhere, Anytime: An Illustrated History of the Military Airlift Command. Scott AFB, IL: Office of MAC History, 1991, simultaneous hardcover and paperback editions. Co‑authored with Coy F. Cross II, Betty R. Kennedy, John W. Leland, Jeffrey S. Underwood, and Robert C. Williford.
• Father Figure: Joseph Smith III and the Creation of the Reorganized Church. Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1990. Recipient of the 1990 Best Book in Mormon History Award presented by the Mormon History Association and the 1990 Best Book Award of the John Whitmer Historical Association.
• Joseph Smith III: Pragmatic Prophet. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988, paperback reprint, 1996. Recipient of the 1989 Evans Biography Award presented by the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies at Utah State University and the 1989 Best Book Award from the John Whitmer Historical Association.
• Invisible Saints: A History of Black Americans in the Reorganized Church. Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1988. Recipient of the 1988 Best Book Award from the John Whitmer Historical Association.
• The Kirtland Temple: A Narrative History. Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1986, 2d edition 1990.
• Zion’s Camp: Expedition to Missouri, 1834. Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1984. Recipient of the 1984 Best Book Award from the John Whitmer Historical Association.

BOOKS EDITED

• Space Shuttle Legacy: How We Did It and What We Learned. Reston, VA: American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2013. With John Krige and James I. Craig.
• Exploring the Solar System: The History and Science of Planetary Exploration. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. “Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology.”
• The Problem of Space Travel: The Rocket Motor. By Herman Noordung. Ljubljana, Slovenia: Cultural Centre of European Pace Technologies (KSEVT), 2011. With J.D. Hunley and Frederick I. Ordway III.
• Globalizing Polar Science: Reconsidering the International Polar and Geophysical Years. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, November 2010. Co-edited with David H. DeVorkin and James Rodger Fleming. “Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology.”
• Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program, Volume VII, Human Spaceflight: Projects Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. Washington, DC: NASA SP-2008-4407, 2008. Co-edited with John M. Logsdon. PDF version available here, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.
• Societal Impact of Spaceflight. Washington, DC: NASA SP-2007-4801, 2007. Co-edited with Steven J. Dick. PDF version available here, Part 1 and Part 2.
• Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight. Washington, DC: NASA SP-2006-4702, 2006. Co-edited with Steven J. Dick. PDFs of book are available here.
• Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program, Volume VI: Space and Earth Science. Washington, DC: NASA SP-2004-4007, 2004. Co-edited with John M. Logsdon, General Editor, Stephen J. Garber, and Ray A. Williamson. PDFs of book are available here.
• Flight: A Celebration of 100 Years in Art and Literature. New York: Welcome Books, 2003. Co-edited with Ann Collins Goodyear, Anthony M. Springer, and Bertram Ulrich.
• Taking Off: A Century of Manned Flight. Reston, VA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2003. Co-edited with Jonathan Coopersmith.
• Reconsidering a Century of Flight. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Co-edited with Janet R. Daly Bednarek.
• To Reach the High Frontier: A History of U.S Launch Vehicles. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002, 2d edition 2006. Co-edited with Dennis R. Jenkins.
• Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program, Volume V: Exploring the Cosmos. Washington, DC: NASA SP‑2001-4407, 2001. Co-edited with John M. Logsdon, General Editor, and Amy Paige Snyder, Stephen J. Garber, and Regan Anne Newport. PDF available here.
• Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Harwood Academic, 2000. Co-edited with John M. Logsdon and Robert W. Smith.
• Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program, Volume IV, Accessing Space. Washington, DC: NASA SP-4407, 1999. Co-edited with John M. Logsdon, General Editor, and Ray A. Williamson and Ray Auger. PDF available here.
• Innovation and the Development of Flight. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999.
• Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program, Volume III, Using Space. Washington, DC: NASA SP-4407, 1998. Co-edited with John M. Logsdon, General Editor, and David H. Onkst and Stephen J. Garber. PDF available here.
• Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Co-edited with Howard E. McCurdy.
• “The Aerospace Industry in the West,” guest editor of special issue of Journal of the West 36 (July 1997).
• Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program, Volume II, External Relationships. Washington, DC: NASA SP-4407, 1996. Co-edited with John M. Logsdon, General Editor, and Dwayne A. Day. PDF version available here.
• Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited: Nauvoo in Mormon History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996, simultaneous hardcover and paperback editions. Co-edited with John E. Hallwas.
• Organizing for the Use of Space: Historical Perspectives on a Persistent Issue. San Diego, CA: Univelt, Inc., 1995, simultaneous hardcover and paperback editions. AAS History Series, Volume 18.
• Cultures in Conflict: A Documentary History of the Mormon War in Illinois. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1995, paperback edition 1999. Co-edited with John E. Hallwas. Recipient of the 1995 Steven F. Christensen Award for Best Bibliographic/Documentary work from the Mormon History Association. Recipient of 1995 Best Book Award, presented by the John Whitmer Historical Association.
• History of Rocketry and Astronautics: Proceedings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth History Symposia of the International Academy of Astronautics. San Diego, CA: Univelt, Inc., 1994, simultaneous hardcover and paperback editions. American Astronautical Society History Series, Volume 11.
• Differing Visions: Dissenters in Mormon History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994, paperback edition 1997. Co-edited with Linda Thatcher. Recipient of 1994 Best Edited Work Award, presented by the John Whitmer Historical Association.
• Let Contention Cease: The Dynamics of Dissent in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Independence, MO: Graceland/Park Press, 1991, 2d edition 1993. Co-edited with W.B. Spillman.
• Missouri Folk Heroes of the Nineteenth Century. Independence, MO: Independence Press, 1989. Co-edited with F. Mark McKiernan.
• An Early Latter Day Saint History: The Book of John Whitmer. Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1980. Co-edited with F. Mark McKiernan.

MONOGRAPHS WRITTEN

• National Space Policy: Does it Matter? Washington, DC: The George Marshall Institute, 2006. Co-authored with Richard H. Buenneke, Richard DalBello, and R. Cargill Hall.
• The U.S. Space Program and American Society. Carlisle, MA: Deitch Enterprises, Ltd., 1998.
• An Annotated Bibliography of the Apollo Program. Washington, DC: Monographs in Aerospace History, Vol. 2, 1994. Compiled with J.D. Hunley. On-line version available here.
• Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis. Washington, DC: Monographs in Aerospace History, Vol. 3, 1994, 2d edition 2004. On-line version available here.
• Toward a History of the Space Shuttle: An Annotated Bibliography. Washington, DC: Monographs in Aerospace History, Vol. 1, 1992. Compiled with Aaron K. Gillette.
• Significant Airlift Events of the Korean Conflict, 1950‑1953: A Brief Chronology.  Scott AFB IL: Office of MAC History, 1990.
• Consolidation by Decree: The Air Force and Navy Strategic Airlift Merger of 1948. Scott AFB, IL: Office of MAC History, 1989.
• MAC and the Legacy of the Berlin Airlift. Scott AFB, IL: Office of MAC History, 1989. Co‑authored with Coy F. Cross II.
• The Military Airlift Command: A Short History. Scott AFB, IL: Office of MAC History, 1989.
• The Berlin Airlift: A Brief Chronology. Scott AFB, IL: Office of MAC History, 1988.
• A Handbook for MAC Historians. Scott AFB, IL: Office of MAC History, 1988.
• A Brief History of the Essex House. Scott AFB, IL: Office of MAC History, 1988. Co‑authored with Betty R. Kennedy.
• A Case Study in Civil‑Military Relations: Hill Air Force Base and the Ogden Business Community, 1934‑1945. Hill AFB, UT: Office of History, Ogden ALC, 1986.
• An Illustrated History of the Kirtland Temple. Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1986, 2d edition 1989, 3d edition 2001.
• Joseph Smith, Jr.’s, Red Brick Store. Macomb: Western Illinois University Monograph Series, 1985, 2d edition 1993. Co‑authored with F. Mark McKiernan.
• A Guide to Memorializations, Place Names, and Monuments at Hill Air Force Base. Hill AFB, UT: Office of History, Ogden ALC, 1985.
• The United States Air Force in Utah: The Case of Wendover Field. Salt Lake City: Fort Douglas Military Museum Monograph Series, 1985.