Apollo 13: The NASA Mission Reports
Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Apogee Books, 2000. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Trade paperback. 256 pages. Includes a CD-ROM of NASA Apollo 13 movies and images. Illustrations (some in color). More
Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Apogee Books, 2000. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Trade paperback. 256 pages. Includes a CD-ROM of NASA Apollo 13 movies and images. Illustrations (some in color). More
Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Apogee Books, 2001. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Trade paperback. 464 pages with CD in rear pocket. Illustrations (some in color). Diagrams. Maps. The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development. The first of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights beginning in 1982. Five complete Shuttle systems were built and used on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011, launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Operational missions launched numerous satellites, interplanetary probes, and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST); conducted science experiments in orbit; and participated in construction and servicing of the International Space Station. The Shuttle fleet's total mission time was 1322 days, 19 hours, 21 minutes and 23 seconds. More
Burlington, Ontario: Apogee Books, c1999. 248, wraps, illus. (some in color), figures, tables, CDROM in pocket inside rear cover, small creases to cover edges. More
Washington, DC: NASA, 1992. Quarto, 125, wraps, figures, tables, references, index, label partly removed from rear cover, ink name front cover, NASA Reference Pub 1274. More
New York: Dutton, 1997. 24 cm, 267, illus. More
New York: Dutton, 1997. First Printing. 24 cm, 267, illus., glossary, usual library markings In August 1996, scientists from NASA stunned the world with the announcement that an ancient meteorite that had plunged to Earth from Mars revealed evidence of primitive life. The complete story of this groundbreaking discovery. More
Homewood, IL: Business One Irwin, c1992. First Printing. 24 cm, 241, Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 189. [3] pages. Tabular data. Notes and Comments. Index. This is one of the Holt Library of Science Series III. Harold Leland Goodwin, was a prolific author who wrote about space exploration and other technical matters For his entry in "Contemporary Authors," A scuba diver and Marine veteran of World War II who was at different times an official of the old Federal Civil Defense Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Mr. Goodwin had considerable experience on which to draw. Mr. Goodwin's factual books included "The Science Book of Space Travel," published in 1955, "Space: Frontier Unlimited," published in 1962, and "Challenge of the Seven Seas," which he wrote with Sen. Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.) and which appeared in 1966. Mr. Goodwin attended the Elliot Radio Academy. In 1940, he came to Washington as a correspondent for Trans Radio News Service. Following his service as a combat correspondent in the Marine Corps in World War II, he went to Manila as a State Department official. From 1951 to 1958, he was a public affairs official in the Federal Civil Defense Administration, where he worked on nuclear tests. In 1954, he was one of 10 young men in government chosen for the Arthur S. Flemming Award. In 1958, Mr. Goodwin was named science adviser to the U.S. Information Agency. In 1961, he joined NASA, and in 1967 he went to the National Science Foundation as deputy director of the National Sea Grant Program. In 1970, the program was transfered to NOAA and Mr. Goodwin went with it. More
Jerusalem: Israel Program for Sci Trans, 1970. 121, wraps, illus., figures, charts, bibliography, covers soiled, spine edges worn, address sticker on rear cover. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1996. Quarto, 137, wraps, illus., notes, key documents, index, slight wear to cover and spine edges. More
Washington, DC: Cent/Strategic & Int'l Stud. 1997. First Printing. 172, wraps, abbreviations and acronyms, chapter notes. Significant Issues Series, Volume XIX, Number 4. More
Washington, DC: NASA, 1986. 348, wraps, illus., diagrams, covers somewhat worn and soiled, small creases to front cover. More
New York, N.Y. W. W. Norton & Company, 1992. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [6], 304 pages. Includes Author's Note and Prologue, 15 chapters, Epilogue, Bibliography, and an Index. In the panic that followed the Soviet launch of Sputnik, Harrison Storms, the legendary chief engineer of North American Aviation, captured the job of building the Apollo spacecraft. Storms was one of the country's foremost airplane designer, and at North American he is known, only half-jokingly, and The Creator. As Storms and his engineers feel their way through uncharted technologies on a killing schedule, the blizzard of changing orders from NASA keeps the design of the ship a constantly moving target. Harold Michael "Mike" Gray (October 26, 1935 – April 30, 2013)[1] was an American writer, screenwriter, cinematographer, film producer and director. In 1965, Mike Gray and Jim Dennett co-founded The Film Group, a Chicago film production company. In 1968, the pair produced the award-winning documentary American Revolution 2, followed by the trio's The Murder of Fred Hampton. He also wrote and directed Wavelength, an independent science fiction film starring Robert Carradine, Cherie Currie, and Keenan Wynn, with a soundtrack by Tangerine Dream. Gray next co-created the television series Starman. Following Starman, he became series writer/producer for the 1988–89 season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Screenwriter Mike Gray profiled Storms in his 1992 book, Angle of Attack. Publishers Weekly described it as a "swaggering portrait of NASA's Apollo project [which] might well be called Indiana Jones and the Engineering Mission of Destiny." More
Washington, DC: American Astronautical Soc. 1967. First? Edition. First? Printing. 256, illus., usual library markings, errata slip taped to half-title. More
Washington, DC: NASA, 1970. Quarto, 129, wraps, figures, references, appendix, small creases to covers and spine. More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1983. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 6 inches by 8.6 inches. xi, [1], 274, [2] pages. Foreword by James Michener. Cover has some wear, tears and soiling. This covers from the Space shuttle to space stations and beyond. Jerry Grey is the Former Director of Science and Technology Policy for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He was professor of aerospace science at Princeton University for 15 years, and has written multiple science books. In 1982 he was the Deputy Secretary-General for the United Nations Second Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1979. First Edition. First Printing. 288, illus., chronology, acronyms, index, some wear and small tears to top and bottom DJ edges. More
New York: AIAA, 1977. 266, illus., diagrams, bds somewhat worn/soiled, some edge soiling. Includes a 75-page appendix with proceedings of 1974 conference. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1993. First American Edition. First Printing. 274, reading list, index, ink underlining (mostly within the first 60 pages) In April 1992, NASA's $150 million COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) satellite made one of the most monumental scientific breakthroughs of our century: the discovery of the long-sought "ripples in the fabric of spacetime," brief fluctuations in microwave radiation still echoing from the first trillionth of a second after the cataclysmic birth of creation. First book to explore and explain the significance of this discovery. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 264. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 264, notes, index How asteroid and comet collisions have shaped human history, and what dangers lie ahead. The authors predict that life on earth will be extinguished by an asteroid strike unless science can prevent such a catastrophe. More
Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2008. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xii, 329, [1] pages. Illustrations (many in color). Inscribed by author on fep. Michael Douglas Griffin (born November 1, 1949) is an American physicist and aerospace engineer who is the current Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. He previously served as Administrator of NASA, the U.S. space agency, from April 13, 2005, to January 20, 2009. As NASA Administrator Griffin oversaw such areas as the future of human spaceflight, the fate of the Hubble telescope and NASA's role in understanding climate change. In April 2009 Griffin was named eminent scholar and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Alabama. Griffin had worked at NASA prior to serving as NASA Administrator, including as Associate Administrator for Exploration. When he was nominated as NASA chief, he was head of the Space Department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). In 2007 he was included in the TIME 100, the magazine's list of the 100 most influential people. Griffin's appointment as Administrator was associated with a significant shift in the direction of the agency. More
Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2008. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 6.5 inches by 9.75 inches. xii, 329, [1] pages. Illustrations. DJ has minor wear and soiling. Michael Douglas Griffin (born November 1, 1949) is an American physicist and aerospace engineer who served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering from 2018 to 2020. He previously served as Deputy of Technology for the Strategic Defense Initiative, and as Administrator of NASA from April 13, 2005, to January 20, 2009. As NASA Administrator Griffin oversaw such areas as private spaceflight, future human spaceflight to Mars, and the fate of the Hubble telescope. While he describes himself as a "simple aerospace engineer from a small town", Griffin has held several high-profile political appointments. In 2007 he was included in the TIME 100, the magazine's list of the 100 most influential people. Griffin's appointment as Administrator was associated with a significant shift in the direction of the agency. He began signaling intended changes at his Senate confirmation hearing. In 2005, he was appointed NASA Administrator where he pushed for commercial cargo and crew transportation services. After NASA lost a GAO protest from SpaceX on a sole-source contract to RocketPlane Kistler, Griffin led a reorganization of the contract into a competition called the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. Twenty aerospace companies applied to the COTS program, of which two companies, RocketPlane Kistler and SpaceX were selected by NASA. In 2008, NASA awarded SpaceX and Orbital Sciences contracts with a combined value of $3.5 billion. More
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1992. First Printing. 24 cm, 194, wraps. More
Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1997. First Printing. 270, notes, index, top or bottom edges of a few pages stuck together at margin, library stamps crossed out in marker, DJ in plastic library stickers on DJ or plastic sleeve partially removed or crossed out in marker, slight wear to DJ edges. The author details NASA's mishaps with plutonium-fueled missions to dates, and its unrealistic calculations about the probability of a major accident. More