Greenbelt, MD: NASA, 1993. Preprint Edition. Wraps. Quarto, approx. 1, 000, 2 vols., wraps, figures, tables, references, slight soiling to covers, slight creasing to covers v.2, a few pages bent. More

Greenbelt, MD/Rohnert Park, CA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center/Sonoma State University, 2008. Presumed First Edition, First printing, one of multiple originals published. 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 Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST). The other side has text largely in a three column format with a two-column illustration of Pulsar Activity at the bottom center and right column. The text addresses GLAST Mission Science, The Main Mission Objectives, and GLAST Instrumentation and Spacecraft. The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST, also FGRST), formerly called the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), is a space observatory being used to perform gamma-ray astronomy observations from low Earth orbit. Its main instrument is the Large Area Telescope (LAT), with which astronomers mostly intend to perform an all-sky survey studying astrophysical and cosmological phenomena such as active galactic nuclei, pulsars, other high-energy sources and dark matter. Another instrument aboard Fermi, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM; formerly GLAST Burst Monitor), is being used to study gamma-ray bursts and solar flares. Fermi, named for high-energy physics pioneer Enrico Fermi, was launched on 11 June 2008 at 16:05 UTC aboard a Delta II 7920-H rocket. The mission is a joint venture of NASA, the United States Department of Energy, and government agencies in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Sweden, becoming the most sensitive gamma-ray telescope on orbit, succeeding INTEGRAL. The project is a recognized CERN experiment (RE7). More

Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, 2007. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Single sheet, printed on both sides. The format is approximately 10 inches by 8 inches. The front side is a color photograph of M82: A Starburst Galaxy. The other side has three columns. The first is a text discussion of M82 which goes into the second column. At the top of the second and third columns is a color depiction of a possible scenario of an M82 near collusion scenario. The second and third columns also contain text information on Fast Facts, Vocabulary, and NASA contact information. Messier 82 (also known as NGC 3034, Cigar Galaxy or M82) is a starburst galaxy approximately 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It is the second-largest member of the M81 Group, with the D25 isophotal diameter of 12.52 kiloparsecs (40,800 light-years). It is about five times more luminous than the Milky Way and its central region is about one hundred times more luminous. The starburst activity is thought to have been triggered by interaction with neighboring galaxy M81. As one of the closest starburst galaxies to Earth, M82 is the prototypical example of this galaxy type. SN 2014J, a type Ia supernova, was discovered in the galaxy on 21 January 2014. In 2014, in studying M82, scientists discovered the brightest pulsar yet known, designated M82 X-2. In November 2023, a gamma-ray burst was observed in M82, which was determined to have come from a magnetar, the first such event detected outside the Milky Way (and only the fourth such event ever detected). More

Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, 2009. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Single sheet, printed on both sides. The format is approximately 10 inches by 8 inches. This can be used either as a poster or a fact sheet. The front side has a photograph of Pillar in the Carina Nebula. The other side has two columns. The first is text related to Pillar and associated vocabulary. The other has a nice Hubble image with text in a box and NASA contact information underneath. The Space Telescope Institute and the European Space Agency logos are present next to the NASA logo at the bottom right. The Carina Nebula lies within our own galaxy, approximately 7,500 light-years away. Near the heart of the nebula lies Eta Carinae – a system of at least two stars, the largest of which (Eta Car A) is around 100 times as massive as the Sun and 5 million times as luminous. Stars of this size are extremely rare; our galaxy is home to hundreds of billions of stars but only tens of them are in the mass range of Eta Car A. The image above is a mosaic assembled from 48 frames taken with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. The Hubble exposures were taken in the light of ionized hydrogen. Color information was added using data taken through three filters at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Red corresponds to sulfur, green to hydrogen, and blue to oxygen emission. This view of the Carina Nebula provided astronomers the opportunity to explore the process of star birth at a new level of detail. The hurricane-strength blast of stellar winds and blistering ultraviolet radiation within the nebula is compressing the surrounding walls of cold hydrogen. This is triggering a second stage of star formation. More

Greenbelt, MD: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 2011. Revised Edition, presumed first printing thus. Single sheet, printed on both sides. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Single sheet printed on both sides. Illustrations (color) on both sides. The Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) is a NASA technology demonstration mission with equipment launches in both 2011 and 2013 to increase the technological maturity of in-space rocket propellant transfer technology by testing a wide variety of potential propellant transfer hardware, of both new and existing satellite designs. The first phase of the mission was successfully completed in 2013. The second phase experiments continued in 2015. The third phase ~2018 suffered a cryocooler failure in 2019 and loss of methane. The Robotic Refueling Mission was developed by the Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). It was planned to demonstrate the technology and tools to refuel satellites in orbit by robotic means. After the proof of concept, the long-term goal of NASA is to transfer the technology to the commercial sector. More

Washington, DC: NASA, 1975. First? Edition. First? Printing. 859, wraps, illus., diagrams, references, covers worn and soiled, slightly cocked, damp staining at edges. More

Greenbelt, MD: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, 1995. Pre-publication version (?) since Fact Sheet number is not provided. Stapled at upper left corner. Two sheets printed on both sides totaling 4 pages. Illustrations primarily on pages 1 and 3, with small one on page 2. The Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) was a NASA satellite that observed the time variation of astronomical X-ray sources, named after physicist Bruno Rossi. The RXTE had three instruments — an All-Sky Monitor, the High-Energy X-ray Timing Experiment (HEXTE) and the Proportional Counter Array. The RXTE observed X-rays from black holes, neutron stars, X-ray pulsars and X-ray bursts. It was funded as part of the Explorer program and was also called Explorer 69. RXTE had a mass of 7,100 lbs. and was launched from Cape Canaveral on 30 December 1995, at 13:48:00 UTC, on a Delta II launch vehicle. Its International Designator is 1995-074A. Among the topics addressed include X-Ray Timing Explorer, XTE, Scientific Instruments, Space Science, All Sky Monitor, Spacecraft, Astrophysics, Compact Objects, Binary Star Systems, White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, Stellar-mass Black Holes, Explorer 69, and the Proportional Counter Array. More

Greenbelt, MD? Goddard Space Flight Center? c. 1965? Quarto, 88, wraps, illus., sources, "Space Sci" written in ink on spine, sm tears rear cover, tear at one of two staples holding rear cover. 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