Alling, Abigail, and Mark Nelson, Life under Glass: The Inside Story of Biosphere 2, Biosphere Press, 1993.

This book shows what it was like to live for two years inside Biosphere 2, the sealed-environment biodome located outside Tucson, Arizona. In 1991, eight men and women entered the dome, which was set up to be a complete ecosystem. Today, Biosphere 2 is part of a larger complex devoted to ecological research, education, and public outreach.

Beattie, Donald A., Taking Science to the Moon: Lunar Experiments and the Apollo Program, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

The Apollo missions were originally intended only to win the space race to get the first man on the moon. However, there were many NASA scientists who fought to expand the scope of the missions by including lunar science activities. Beattie, an engineer who served as a NASA manager from 1963 to 1973, gives a thorough overview of the science activities...