- https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/space-race/ - after WW ll the US and Soviet Russia were pitting democracy agaisnt communism. Space was a critical in the Cold War, both sides competed to be the best and that’s when the space race came to be.
- http://www.nationalcoldwarexhibition.org/schools-colleges/national-curriculum/space-race/ - they were racing to explore space using artificial satellites and unmanned aircrafts. Both countries started work on developing reconnaissance satellites well before the height of the Space Race.
- http://www.jfklibrary.org/Exhibits/Permanent-Exhibits/The-Space-Race.aspx-the presidency of JFK pushed the race forward because he wanted to win the race
- Oct. 4, 1957: The Space Race Begins - SpaceNews.com
- http://encore.sfpl.org/iii/encore/record/C%7CRb2081971%7CSThe+Hazards+of+Space+Travel%3A+A+Tourist%27s+Guide%7COrightresult%7CX4?lang=eng&suite=def
- Gray, Mike. Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon. New York: W.W. Norton, 1992. Print. In this book it showed the importance and the rush that the countries had to want to win the race
- Schefter, James L. The Race: The Uncensored Story of How America Beat Russia to the Moon. New York: Doubleday, 1999. Print. This article showed the “behind the scenes” stuff that nobody really shed light to because they weren’t that important but still made a difference
- Breuer, William B. Race to the Moon: America's Duel with the Soviets. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993. Print.
- Scott, David, and Alexei Leonov. Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race. London: Simon & Schuster, 2004. Print. this was a book told from a first perspective of what happened during the race and the war
- Kranz, Gene. Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and beyond. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. This book was about the timeline of the Space race and showed the urgency of getting to the moon
- Lovell, Jim, and Jeffrey Kluger. Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. Print. The primarary focus of the book was to show what happened during apollo 13, the first spacecraft to land on the moon with live people
- http://www.space.com/11336-space-race-united-states-soviets-spaceflight-50years.html -they showed how the the Russians planned they're flights and journeys
- http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/space-race/ - videos explaining the timeline and events that were going on during the race
- Hasday, Judy L. The Apollo 13 Misson. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2001. Print.
- Haggerty, James J. Apollo: Lunar Landing. Chicago: Rand MacNally, 1969. Print[;’book shows and talks about the actually landing of the moon
- http://www.amazon.com/Entering-Space-An-astronauts-Odyssey/dp/0941434532 this showed us how the astronauts how to prepare and what they had to do wonce they got to space
- http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-350/cover.html Nasa had actually picture of the spaceships and what the astronuats wore to give us a visual of what they had to use