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A bookshelf with a Mars globe and a lunar globe.

Books on the shelf include

• Psychic Exploration: A Challenge for Science, by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell;
• Countdown for Decision by von Braun's former boss, Major General John. B. Medaris;
• Volumes I and II (Environment and Celestial Mechanics and Dynamics) of Krafft Ehrick's Space Flight;
• Earthbound Astronauts by Beirne Lay;
• The Mars Project by von Braun;
• Katechismus der Uraniden: Haben unsere Religionen eine Zukunft?.< (Catechism of the Uranics: Do Our Religions Have a Future?) by Herman Oberth;
• Sulle Tracce Della Vita (On the Traces of Life) by Giancarlo Masini;
• La rivincita di Icaro (Icaro's Revenge) also by Giancarlo Masini;
• Dividends from Space by Frederick I Ordway, Carsbie Clifton Adams, and Mitchell R. Sharpe.

Many of these books date to the 1970s and so are unlikely to have been on his bookshelf when he became Marshall's center director in 1960.