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Exploration-themed reading recommendations (PDF)

Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century

FoilSim II (NASA airfoil interactive simulation)

Slocum, Alexander H. “Creating Ideas.” Chapter 2 in Fundamentals of Design. (PDF)

Newman, Dava. “Introduction to Engineering,” and “Design: Lighter-Than-Air (LTA) Vehicle Module.” Chapters 2 and 12 in Interactive Aerospace Engineering and Design. Dubuque, Iowa: McGraw-Hill, 2001. ISBN: 9780072351248.

Belden, Jesse. “3 Methods for Dimensional Analysis.” (PDF) (Courtesy of Jesse Belden. Used with permission.)

White, Frank M. “Dimensional Analysis and Similarity,” and “Experimental External Flow.” Chapter 5 and Section 7.6 in Fluid Mechanics. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2006. ISBN: 9780072938449.

Taylor, Geoffrey. “The Formation of a Blast Wave by a Very Intense Explosion II. The Atomic Explosion of 1945.” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 201 (March 22, 1950): 175-186.

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