Petersen's Book of Man in Space, Volume I: The First Small Step
Los Angeles, CA: Petersen Publishing Co., 1974. Quarto, 144, wraps, profusely illus. (many in color), some scuffing to covers, lower corner rear cover creased. More
Los Angeles, CA: Petersen Publishing Co., 1974. Quarto, 144, wraps, profusely illus. (many in color), some scuffing to covers, lower corner rear cover creased. More
Los Angeles, CA: Petersen Publishing Co., 1974. Quarto, 144, wraps, profusely illus. (many in color), some scuffing to covers, some wear to cover and spine edges. More
Los Angeles, CA: Petersen Pub. Co., [1974]. 28 cm, 144, wraps, profusely illus. (some in color). More
Los Angeles, CA: Petersen Pub. Co., [1974]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 28 cm, 144, illus. (some color), boards somewhat worn and soiled. Petersen's Book of Man in Space; v. 3. More
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1983. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Map/Poster. Format is approximately 20 inches by 34 inches. Folded to fit inside the magazine as a supplement (16 panels approximately 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches). Illustration and text on both sides. This poster/map was a supplement to the National Geographic, June 1983, Volume 163, No. 6. Universe Sky Survey. On the front side (identified because it has the copyright and other relevant information) there are six text sections, associated with images on the map: 1. Sun and Near Planets; 2. Sun's Neighbors; 3. Milky Way Galaxy; 4. Local Group [includes Andromeda Galaxy]; 5. Local Supercluster; and 6. Known Universe. The back side has one large image, 3 medium size images, and 3 smaller images plus text. The text states that The Star Survey is an indispensable photographic atlas of 1,870 glass plates embracing the entire northern sky, and part of the southern, which has guided astronomers since the 1950s. The results of Sky Survey II, to start in 1984, are anticipated. More
Washington, DC: NASA, 1982. First? Edition. First? Printing. 28 cm, 134, wraps, illus., bibliography, some library markings, covers somewhat worn and soiled, pencil erasure on title page. More
Washington, DC: NASA, 1982. 28 cm, 134, wraps. NASA CP-2244. More
Washington DC: National Reconnaissance Office, Office of the Historian, 2001. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. vi, 50 pages. Figures/Illustrations (some in color). Footnotes. Tables. References. Presentation card signed by Cargill Hall laid in. Cover has slight wear and soiling. R. Cargill Hall is Emeritus Chief Historian of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), an intelligence arm of the Department of Defense. Previously he served in various history positions for the Air Force History and Museums Program. Still earlier he served as historian at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is a member of the United States Intelligence Community and an agency of the United States Department of Defense. NRO is considered, along with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), to be one of the "big five" U.S. intelligence agencies. It designs, builds, and operates the reconnaissance satellites of the United States government, and provides satellite intelligence to several government agencies, particularly signals intelligence (SIGINT) to the NSA, imagery intelligence (IMINT) to the NGA, and measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT) to the DIA. The Director of the NRO reports to both the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense and serves as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Intelligence Space Technology). The NRO's federal workforce consists primarily of Air Force, CIA, NGA, NSA, and Navy personnel. More
Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 2010. Dover Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing thus. Trade paperback. xvii, [3], 450, [6] pages. Introduction by Paul Dickson. Illustrations. Sources. Appendixes (including a Bibliography of Scientific Findings). Notes. Index. This Dover edition is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in the NASA History Series (NASA SP-4210) in 1977. A new Introduction by Paul Dickson has been specially prepared for this edition. Cargill Hall is Emeritus Chief Historian of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), an intelligence arm of the Department of Defense. Previously he served as Chief of the Contract Histories Program in the Air Force History Support Office, as Chief of the Research Division and concurrently Deputy Director of the Air Force Historical Research Agency, and as a historian at Headquarters Military Airlift Command and Headquarters Strategic Air Command. Still earlier he served as historian at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He is the author of Lunar Impact: A History of Project Ranger, and is the editor, among other volumes, of Case Studies in Strategic Bombardment; with Jack Neufeld, the U.S. Air Force in Space; and Lightning Over Bougainville: The Yamamoto Mission Reconsidered. Among his most recent contributions in the open literature are “The Evolution of National Security Space Policy and Its Legal Foundations in the 20th Century,” Journal of Space Law, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2007, and, with Richard Smith, Five Down, No Glory. Hall is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics and the International Institute of Space Law. More
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1962. Second Printing. 263, illus., notes, index, small stain inside front hinge, DJ scuffed and soiled: small tears, small pieces missing. More
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1960. 263, illus., notes, index, lib stamps & pocket, sm rough spot ins rear flylf, ink name ins fr flylf, bds soiled & corners worn. More
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1960. 263, illus., notes, index, bookplate inside front board, DJ soiled and stained: small tears, small pieces missing, edges worn. More
London: Routledge, 1989. First? Edition. First? Printing. 227, illus., bibliography, glossary, index, minor wear and soiling to DJ, minor edge soiling, sticker residue on rear DJ. More
Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1964. 333, tables, charts, references, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat faded & soiled: small tears, small pieces missing. More
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: Greenbelt, Maryland, 2012. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 124 pages. Oversized book, measuring 10 inches by 10 inches. Topics covered include Foreword, Hubble's History, Observatory Design, Operating Hubble, and Hubble News. Also includes A New Class of Extrasolar Planet; Colliding Starclusters in a Nearby Galaxy; The Milky Way's Collision with the Andromeda Galaxy; Ultra-Faint Fossil Galaxies; The Mysterious Dark Core of Abell 520; Quasars in Normal-Looking Galaxies; Characterizing Early Star-Forming Galaxies; and Exploring Lyman-Alpha and Lyman-Break Galaxies. Also includes information on Hubble Support, and Acknowledgments. As Hubble collects more and more data, astronomers also continue to publish results at an accelerated rate, with many of their findings now based upon previously archived data. This past year, Hubble surpassed the 11,000 mark for peer-reviewed scientific papers. This book highlights a few of the many discoveries made with the observatory this past year, as Hubble continues to fashion its legacy as one of the most scientifically successful missions in history. More
Greenbelt, Maryland: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 2009. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 152 pages. Oversized book, measuring 10 inches by 10 inches. Includes Foreword, Hubble's History, Observatory Design, Operating Hubble, Servicing Mission 4 Preparation, Hubble News. Also includes Science: A New Red Spot on Jupiter; Dwarf Bodies in the Solar System; First Visible-Light Image of an Extrasolar Planet; Supernova Remnant SN 1006; Probing the Atmospheres of Exoplanets; Magnetic Filaments in an Active Galaxy; Interacting Galaxies; Dark Matter and Galaxy Life in a Supercluster; Barred Spiral Galaxies and Galactic Evolution; and Searching for Baryonic Matter in Intergalactic Space; Also contains Supporting Hubble: Profiles, and Acknowledgments. Now, nearly 20 years after its first launch, the scale of the Hubble revolution is becoming increasingly apparent: Black holes are common to galaxies; planetary atmospheres have organic chemistry; dark energy seems to behave like Einstein's cosmological constant; galaxies were rapidly born and quickly evolved through collisions and mergers; and stars die in a blaze of glory that is as awesome as it is foreboding. More
Goddard Space Flight Center: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2012. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 154 pages. Oversized book, measuring 10 inches by 10 inches. Topics covered include Foreword, Hubble's History, Observatory Design, Operating Hubble, and Hubble News. Also includes Science--New Pluto Moon Discovered, Finding Planets in Archived Hubble Data, Flaring Red Dwarf Stars; Supersonic Jets from Young Stars; Revisiting Star VI; Hubble's Multi-Cycle Treasury Programs; Hanny's Voorwerp; Investigating a Gamma-Ray Burst; The Brightest Gravitationally Lensed Galaxy; Measuring the Galactic Merger Rate; and Ruling Out One Alternative to Dark Energy. Also includes Hubble Support, and Acknowledgments. In the past year, a significant portion of Hubble's observing time was devoted to three innovative Multi-Cycle Treasury Programs. These large and important observations will populate the Hubble data archive with unparalleled information that astronomers can use for years as they investigate key questions about the history and evolution of the cosmos. More
San Diego, CA: Univelt, Inc., 1989. First Edition. First Printing. 234, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Ellis Horwood, 1992. First? Edition. First? Printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 7 inches by 9.5 inches. [6],339,[7] pages. Illustrations/Exhibits. Fold-out diagram of Space Station Freedom. Occasional footnotes. References. Directory. Index. Foreword by Jesco von Puttkamer, Office of Space Flight, NASA. Sticker residue on fep. Minor page soiling on title page. This is one of the Ellis Horwood Library of Space Science and Space Technologies, Series in Space Technology. Philip Robert Harris, Ph.D., is a management/space psychologist, as well as a prolific author and futurist. He is president of Harris International, Ltd. in La Jolla, California, founded in 1971 as a global management consultancy for human resource and organization development. A former college and corporate vice president, presently in retirement, Dr. Harris is a Visiting Professor in the California School of International Management. He received his Ph.D. and M. S. in psychology from Fordham University, and a B. B. A. in business from St. John's University. More
New York: Macfadden-Bartell Corp, 1962. 18 cm, 237, wraps. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1974. Oversized, 179, illus. (some color), endpaper maps, appendices, glue residue on boards, boards somewhat scuffed. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: GPO, 1974. First? Edition. First? Printing. 30 cm, 179, illus., references, index, some wear to boards. More
Greenbelt, MD: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, 2013. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 65, [1] plus covers. Color Illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. This book provides an overview of the historic space telescope with sections that briefly describe its history, design, operations, and cultural impact. This book is a joint projects of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the Space Telescope Institute. The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight center. GSFC is the largest combined organization of scientists and engineers in the United States dedicated to increasing knowledge of the Earth, the Solar System, and the Universe via observations from space. GSFC is a major U.S. laboratory for developing and operating unmanned scientific spacecraft. GSFC manages operations for many NASA and international missions including the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the Explorer program, the Discovery Program, the Earth Observing System (EOS), INTEGRAL, MAVEN, OSIRIS-REx, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), and Swift. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1979. Quarto, 198, profusely illus. (many in color), maps, endpaper maps, figures, tables, index, damp stains in bottom margins (some pgs stuck). More
San Diego, CA: American Astronautical Soc. 1980. 290, illus., figures, refs, index, lib stamps (some crossed out in marker), rough spot ins rear bd, bookplate removed ins fr board. More