Washington, DC: AIAA, 1992. First? Edition. First? Printing. 716, wraps, a few illustrations but mostly textual summaries, some ink marks in text, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More

Huntington Beach, CA: McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company, 1987. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Single sheet, printed on both sides. One sheet, approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Illustration on one side and text related to The Space Station Team on the other side. This described the combination, under McDonnell Douglas leadership, of Honeywell, IBM, Lockheed, and RCA to compete for work on the Space Station project. This group subsequently became know as The Five Star Team. The text side identifies the technical areas of responsibility of each team member. The illustration on the other side utilizes the names of each of the team members to from a model of the space station. (Black and White graphic except for the term NASA appearing in red near the center of the image. More

Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972. Presumed First Edition, First printing. This is one of multiple originals issued. Single sheet, printed on both sides. The format is approximately 8 inches by 10 inches. This is a single sheet, with printing/imagery on both sides, in a plastic sleeve. On the front side is a large color photograph of Astronaut John W. Young, Commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, saluting the U.S. flat as the Descartes landing site. At the center of the image is the American Flag fully unfurled and the space suited Astronaut with his right arm raised in salute. The Lunar Landing Module is behind the flag on the left side of the image, as is the Lunar Roving Vehicle. In the background behind the flag and Astronaut Young is the Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph. There is a lengthy caption on the back which reads APOLLO 16 EVA PHOTOGRAPH--Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, leaps from the lunar surface as he salutes the U.S. flag at the Descartes landing site during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity (EVA-1). Astronaut Charles M. Duke, Jr., lunar module pilot, took this picture. The Lunar Module "Orion" is on the left. The Lunar Roving Vehicle is parked besides the LM. The object behind Young in the shade of the LM is the Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph. Stone Mountain dominates the background in this lunar scene. More

Washington DC: National Astronautics and Space Administration, 1984. Presumed First Edition, First printing. This is one of multiple originals issued. Single sheet, printed on both sides. The format is approximately 8 inches by 10 inches. This is a single sheet, with imagery on the front side and printing on both sides, in a plastic sleeve. On the front side is a large color photograph of the Orbiter Discovery on Launch Pad. Space Shuttle Discovery (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter. The spaceplane was one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built. Its first mission, STS-41-D, flew from August 30 to September 5, 1984. Over 27 years of service it launched and landed 39 times, aggregating more spaceflights than any other spacecraft to date. The Space Shuttle launch vehicle had three main components: the Space Shuttle orbiter, a single-use central fuel tank, and two reusable solid rocket boosters. Nearly 25,000 heat-resistant tiles cover the orbiter to protect it from high temperatures on re-entry. Discovery became the third operational orbiter to enter service, preceded by Columbia and Challenger. It embarked on its final mission, STS-133, on February 24, 2011, and touched down for the last time at Kennedy Space Center on March 9, having spent a cumulative total of nearly a full year in space. Discovery performed both research and International Space Station (ISS) assembly missions, and also carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit among other satellites. Discovery was the first operational shuttle to be retired, followed by Endeavour and then Atlantis. The shuttle is now on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. More

Washington DC: National Astronautics and Space Administration, 2009. Presumed First Edition, First printing. This is one of multiple originals issued. Poster. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. This is a single sheet, with printing/imagery on both sides, in a plastic sleeve. On the front side is a large color photograph of the space shuttle, central fuel tank, and solid rocket boosters on a launch pad at night. On the reverse there are 10 vignettes with images and texts discussing the following spinoffs Artificial Heart, Rescue Tool, Life-Saving Light, Automotive Insulation, Land Mine Removal Device, Green Lubricants, Firefighting Infrared Cameras, Home Insulation, Prosthesis Material, and Video Stabilization Software. After years of development and decades of flying, the now-cancelled space shuttle program has left more to future generations than pieces for museums and fond memories of exploration. Its legacy lives on in an artificial heart device, NASCAR racing cars and rescue tools used to reach car accident victims. The entire array of NASA technology spinoffs could even be greater than the number of spinoffs from the Apollo moon missions. Whether or not the space shuttle program was worth its $209 billion price tag remains a separate debate for human spaceflight advocates and critics. But NASA's official count of tech spinoffs that went on to become commercial products suggests that many people on Earth have seen benefits from the shuttle's human spaceflight program. More

Washington DC, Pasadena, CA: National Astronautics and Space Administration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2005. Presumed First Edition, First printing, This is one of multiple originals issued. Poster. The format is approximately 8 inches by 10 inches. This is a single sheet, with printing/imagery on both sides, in a plastic sleeve. On the front side is a large color photograph of Earth's moon on the left side and a series of smaller photographs/images on the right, including Astronauts on the Moon, footprint on the moon, Craters, and a view of Earth from the Moon. The text on the reverse side has general descriptive narrative, Fast Facts, Significant Dates, and information about the images on the front. The Earth and the Moon form the Earth-Moon satellite system with a shared center of mass, or barycenter. This barycenter is 1,100 miles (about a quarter of Earth's radius) beneath the Earth's surface. The Moon's orbit is slightly elliptical, with an orbital eccentricity of 0.055. The semi-major axis of the geocentric lunar orbit, called the lunar distance, is approximately 250,000 miles or 1.28 light-seconds, comparable to going around Earth 9.5 times. The Moon makes a complete orbit around Earth with respect to the fixed stars, its sidereal period, about once every 27.3 days. Due to tidal locking, the Moon has a 1:1 spin–orbit resonance. This rotation–orbit ratio makes the Moon's orbital periods around Earth equal to its corresponding rotation periods. This is the reason for only one side of the Moon, its so-called near side, being visible from Earth. The plane of the Moon's orbit gradually rotates once every 18.61 years, which affects other aspects of lunar motion. These follow-on effects are mathematically described by Cassini's laws. More

Goddard Space Flight Center: National Astronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, 2004. Presumed First Edition, First printing, this is one of multiple originals issued. Single sheet, printed on both sides. The format is approximately 8 inches by 10 inches. This is a single sheet, with printing/imagery on both sides, in a plastic sleeve. On the front side is a large color photograph of the Sombrero Galaxy. The other side is in a two-column format. There are several images of the galaxy on the left side. NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScl/AURA) is credited for this imagery. The text on the back side includes "Hats Off" to the Sombrero Galaxy, Vocabulary, Fast Facts, and Looks are Deceiving. This galaxy's most striking feature is the dust lane that crosses in front of the bulge of the galaxy. This dust lane is actually a symmetrical ring that encloses the bulge of the galaxy. Most of the cold atomic hydrogen gas and the dust lie within this ring. The ring might also contain most of the Sombrero Galaxy's cold molecular gas, although this is an inference based on observations with low resolution and weak detections. Additional observations are needed to confirm that the Sombrero galaxy's molecular gas is constrained to the ring. Based on infrared spectroscopy, the dust ring is the primary site of star formation within this galaxy. More

Houston, TX: National Astronautics and Space Administration, Johnson Space Center, 2010. Presumed First Edition, First printing. This is one of multiple originals issued. Single sheet, printed on both sides. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. This is a single sheet, with printing/imagery on both sides, in a plastic sleeve. On the front side is a large color photograph of the six members of the Crew of Space Shuttle Mission STS-133. On the other side there are four columns. At the top of the left column is a small photograph of the crew with last names present. At the bottom of the right two columns is a description of the STS-133 mission patch. The crew members were Commander Steven W. Lindsey (Colonel, USAF RET.), Pilot Eric A. Boe (Colonel, USAF), Specialist Benjamin Alvin Drew, Jr. (Colonel, USAF), Specialist Timothy L. Kopra (Colonel, USA)*, Specialist Michael R. Barratt (M.D), and Specialist Nicole Passonne Stott. [*Tim Kopra was injured and was replaced by Stephen Bowen--making this photograph a rarity.] In the foreground, a solitary orbiter ascends into a dark blue sky above a roiling fiery plume. A spray of stars surrounds the orbiter and a top lit crescent forms the background behind the ascent. The mission number, STS-133, is emblazoned on the patch center, and crewmembers' names are listed on a sky-blue border around the scene. The Shuttle Discovery is depicted ascending on a plume of flame as if it is just beginning a mission. However it is just the orbiter as it would be at mission's end. This is to signify Discovery's completion of its operational life and the beginning of its new role as a symbol of NASA's and the nation's proud legacy in human spaceflight. The Shuttle Discovery is depicted ascending on a plume of flame as if it is just beginning a mission. However it is just the orbiter, without boosters or an external tank, as it would be at mission's end. This is to signify Discovery's completion of its operational life and the beginning of its new role as a symbol of NASA's and the nation's proud legacy in human spaceflight. More

Washington, DC: GPO, 1968. 92, wraps, illus., tables, references, some wear to cover and spine edges. More

Washington, DC: GPO, 1960. First? Edition. First? Printing. 53, wraps. More

Washington, DC: GPO, 1960. 61, wraps, name stamped on front page. More

Washington, DC: GPO, 1974. 1038, wraps, illus., diagrams, folding chart, covers worn/soiled, edge soiling, stain at bottom of front cover, ink word on fr cov small tear at bottom of spine. More

Washington, DC: GPO, 1959. First? Edition. First? Printing. Wraps. 21 cm, 252 pages. Wraps, illus., diagrams, tables, name of previous owner, some holes in front & rear pages, ink name & pencil erasure on front. More