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- "Discussion at the 258th Meeting of the National Security Council," Thursday, September 8, 1955
- Percival Brundage, Director, Bureau of the Budget, to the President, "Project Vanguard," April 30, 1957
- "Draft Statements on the Soviet Satellite," October 5, 1957
- "Discussion at the 339th Meeting of the National Security Council, Thursday, October 10, 1957," October 11, 1957
- Discussion at the 347th Meeting
of the National Security Council
Thursday, December 5, 1957
- J.R. Killian, Jr., "Memorandum on Organizational Alternatives for Space Research and Development," December 30, 1957
- President's Science Advisory Committee, "Introduction to Outer Space" March 26, 1958
- American Reactions to Crisis: Examples of Pre-Sputnik and Post-Sputnik Attitudes and of the Reaction to other Events Perceived as Threats," October 15-16, 1958
- "Impact of U.S. and Soviet Space Programs on World Opinion," 7 July 1959
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Hugh Odish:, Executive Director, US National Committee for IGY, "The Meaning of the International Geophysical Year," 4 December 1959
- "Discussion at the 443rd Meeting of the National Security Council, Thursday, May 5, 1960,"