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Lin, Leslie, and Marlene Konnar Bunch.  The University of Michigan in the American Space Program, Part 1: Post War Rockets, Michigan Historical Society Chronicle, Summer 1984, Volume 20, Number 2.  Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

Lin, Leslie, and Marlene Konnar Bunch.  The University of Michigan in the American Space Program, Part II, Michigan Historical Society Chronicle, Fall 1984, Volume 20, Number 3.  Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958

Newell, Homer E, Beyond the Atmosphere: Early Years of Space Science, NASA SP-4211, Washington D.C., 1980

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Weeks, Robert P.  The First Fifty Years: (A Fragmentary, Anecdotal History), Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, The University of Michigan, 1964.

*Pictures also come from the preceeding sources.

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