1. Rausch, Diane P. “Negotiating International Partnerships at NASA.” Panel Presentation, U.S. Government Space Sector Short Course, George Mason University, 19 Oct. 2006. GMU 9 Dec. 2008. http://www.gmupolicy.net/space/shortcourse/14Rausch%20InternationalPartnershipsNASA.pdf.
2. A comprehensive and very general introduction to the European space programmes (both national and multinational) can be found in: Harvey, Brian. Europe’s Space Programme: To Ariane and Beyond. London: Springer, 2003.
3. So many books have been published on the history of the USSR and U.S. space programmes that only two will be quoted here. For the U.S. programme, see: Burrows, William E. This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age. New York: Random House, 1998; for the Soviet programme, see: Siddiqi, Asif A. Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945–1974. NASA SP-2000-4408. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2000.
4. U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment. “US.-Russian Cooperation in Space.” OTA-ISS-618. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, April 1995.
5. Harland, David M. The Mir Space Station: A Precursor to Space Colonization. Chichester: Wiley, 1997; see also: Harvey, Brian. The New Russian Space Programme: From Competition to Collaboration. Chichester: Wiley, 1996.