Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xii, 572 pages. Illustrations. Participants. References. Index of Telescopes and Instruments. Cover has some wear and soiling. The Editor was with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center at Greenbelt, MD. Yoji Kondo (born 1933, died October 9, 2017) was a Japanese-born American astrophysicist who also wrote science fiction under the pseudonym Eric Kotani. He edited Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master (1992), and contributed to New Destinies, Vol. VI/Winter 1988 — Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Issue (1988), after his friend, writer Robert A. Heinlein, died in 1988. Kondo also edited the non-fiction book Interstellar Travel & Multi-Generational Space Ships, part of the Apogee Books Space Series. More

Washington, DC: NASA, 1984. First? Edition. First? Printing. 544, wraps, illus., references, covers somewhat worn and soiled, pencil erasure on title page, writing on top edge. More