''Togetherness''

This article,  published in the December 1960 issue of Aerospace Magazine, describes safety procedures for the correct handling of the Boeing BOMARC air defense missile during air transport. The tone of the article is unusual for such a subject -' 'As this article goes to press, the safety record of Bomarc airlifts can be summed up in four words: so far, so good. You may recall, however, the optimist who jumped off the top of a New York office building. He was heard to yell the same thing as he passed the 20th floor: so far, so good''
The writer of the article, some guy named Thomas Pynchon, quit Boeing in 1962 and went on to become a novelist of some renown.

Aerospace Safety Magazine, 12/1960, USAF

http://www.vheissu.net/bio/eng_togetherness.htm

''Fear of Frying''

Published in 2006, some thirty years after the last Apollo mission-
''The primary threat to astronauts from space radiation is high-energy charged particles, such as electrons, protons, alpha and heavier particles, originating from galactic cosmic radiation (GCR), solar particle events (SPEs) and trapped radiation belts in Earth orbit. There is also the added threat of secondary neutrons generated as the space radiation interacts with atmosphere, soil and structural materials.[1] For Lunar exploration missions, the habitats and transfer vehicles are expected to provide shielding from standard background radiation. Unfortunately, the Lunar Extravehicular Activity (EVA) suit is not expected to afford such shielding.'' 
Oh well.

Active Solid State Dosimetry for Lunar EVA, NASA 2006

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_20060013413

''Spam in a can''

The problem of prolonged, autonomous human existence in a space suit

(USSR, 1966)

''The authors consider the feasibility of maintaining the thermal balance of a cosmonaut in a space suit utilizing only physiological perspiration. Two series of tests were conducted in a thermal pressure chamber to determine the degree of intensity of physiological heat control and the performance capacity and the general condition of an organism. On the basis of the experiments it is asserted that for a period of 3 to 4 hours a man in a space suit is able to dissipate by the evaporation of perspiration 200-220 kcal/hr of heat produced either internally or externally. Thermal load is decreased, the duration a man can withstand such condition is greatly increased.''

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19670017246

''A nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there"

''Problems such as space motion sickness, redistribution of body fluids, and cardiovascular deconditioning are of concern in short-duration space shuttle flights. The expanded participation of nonastronaut crewmembers or payload specialists in these flights increases the life scientists' interest in the space shuttle flights. Problems such as loss of skeletal mass, decreased red blood cell production, and numerous endocrine changes are of more concern on long-duration flights. The Life Sciences Program is therefore concerned with a wide variety of problems that range from the applied to the basic. The common thread is biology; the context is space.''

Physiological factors in space operations-Emphasis on space shuttle (NASA,1979)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19800006424

''We are 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike''

''The main goal of this study was to find feasible methods and strategies for the deflection of large asteroids in the diameter range of 5 to 200 km.''

To the deflection of asteroids in the diameter range of 5 to 200 km (H.K. Hahn, 2014)

https://archive.org/details/ToTheDeflectionOfAsteroidsInTheDiameterRangeOf5To200Km

''We have the technology.'' 

''The design of a highly anthropomorphic human scale robot arm for space based operations is described.''

Design of the NASA Robonaut Hand (1999)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_20000097045

''Have space suit -Will travel.''

''DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN EXPERIENCES DERIVED IN DESIGNING SPACE SUITS FOR HUMAN HIGH ALTITUDE AND SPACE FLIGHTS ARE REPORTED. THE PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIUM IN WHICH THE FLIGHTS TAKE PLACE, THE PHYSICAL FLIGHT FACTORS AND THEIR INFLUENCE UPON THE HUMAN BODY ARE DISCUSSED. THE BASES OF THE THEORY AND METHOD OF DESIGNING SPACE SUIT SYSTEMS AND PARTS ARE BRIEFLY PRESENTED. THE BOOK IS DESIGNED FOR SPECIALISTS WORKING IN THE FIELD OF DESIGN, PRODUCTION, AND TESTING OF EQUIPMENT FOR PILOTS AND COSMONAUTS. IT IS ALSO USEFUL TO THE ENGINEERING-TECHNICAL PERSONNEL WORKING ON THE CREATION OF LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR THE CREWS OF MODERN SPACECRAFT''

HIGH ALTITUDE AND SPACE SUITS STUDIES (Alekseyev,S.M. ; Umanskiy, S.P. 1973)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19740007684

''... (T)o contain unknown lunar organisms that might endanger life on earth."

The Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) became operational in 1969, its objective was to lower the risk of ''back contamination'' by astronauts and material brought from the Moon.  NASA had not planned for that eventuality when the Apollo program was implemented, so the LRL was designed and built (in less than three years) only after public concerns about the risk of alien pathogens. 
Today it is believed that if such contamination had been present the LRL would had been unable to contain it, mainly due to the procedures used to transport and handle its subjects and specimens. Oh well.

Lunar Receiving Laboratory Project History (2004)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_20040200959

''Ad astra, per aspera''

Studies on Lunar surface material from the Sea of Fertility- Soviet Lunik 16 lunar probe (1974)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19750003742

''Be the First Kid in Your Block to Rule the World!''

''This study was made to present a method for the conceptual design of tactical missiles.''

Tactical missile conceptual design (1980)

https://archive.org/details/tacticalmissilec00redm

''Space Age Slang.''

''The Apollo terminology definitions are presented. They were originally intended to provide Apollo Program participants with an updated collection of terminology used on the Apollo Program.''

Apollo terminology (1963)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19930074634

''Target in sight. Where in hell is Major Kong?''

B-52E Stratofortress Characteristics Summary  (Boeing,July 1964)

https://archive.org/details/B-52EStratofortressCSJuly1964

''A screaming comes across the sky.'' 

The American reverse engineering program of the German A-2.

Final report- Project Hermes V-2 Missile Program (Genertal Electric Corp. 1952)

https://archive.org/details/finalreportproje00whit

''This is Houston. Say again, please.''

''But Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!''

 Apollo 13 - Press Kit (1970)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_20040050622