Valencia, CA: Aquarius Entertainment. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Deck of 54 playing cards, including two jokers, in associated box (which has some wear). NASA 'meatball' emblem on the back of each card. Take a journey with this deck of playing cards featuring unique NASA imagery of 54 different points of interest in the known universe. Standard poker sized cards, 3.5 in. x 2.5 in. Every single playing card features its own distinct NASA themed design and art. No two cards are alike. 100% Officially Licensed NASA Merchandise: This deck of NASA playing cards is designed by AQUARIUS and officially authorized by NASA. They're the perfect piece of NASA memorabilia to add to your collection. A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that is marked with distinguishing motifs. Often the front (face) and back of each card has a finish to make handling easier. They are most commonly used for playing card games; cards may also be collected. Playing cards are typically palm-sized for convenient handling, and usually are sold together in a set as a deck of cards or pack of cards. The most common type of playing card is that found in the French-suited, standard 52-card pack, of which the most common design is the English pattern, followed by the Belgian-Genoese pattern. The reverse side of the card is often covered with a pattern that will make it difficult for players to look through the translucent material to read other people's cards. Playing cards are available in a wide variety of styles, as decks may be custom-produced for casinos and magicians, made as promotional items, or as souvenirs, artistic works, educational tools, or branded accessories. More

Washington, DC: GPO, 1969. 20th Anniversary Edition. Wraps. Oversized, 24, wraps, profusely illus. in color, covers somewhat soiled. More

Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Division, 2010. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xviii, 392, [4] pages. Monographs in Aerospace History. Illustrations. Bibliographic Essay. Interview List. List of Images. Index. Robert S. Arrighi is an archivist and historian at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. He has worked on numerous textual and audiovisual collections, many of which have been central for his histories of several historic test facilities at the Center. He is the coauthor of NASA’s Nuclear Frontier (2004) and author of Revolutionary Atmosphere: History of the Altitude Wind Tunnel and Space Chambers (2010), Pursuit of Power: NASA Glenn’s Propulsion Systems Laboratory No. 1 and 2 (2012), and other works. He has also curated complementary websites and interactives. His Altitude Wind Tunnel Interactive CD-ROM won SHFG’s Powell Award in 2009. More

Vienna, VA [?]: ATK, 2011. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Single sheet, printed on both sides/Poster. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. This is a Liberty Launch Vehicle Poster. On the front side is a multicolor depiction of the Liberty Launch Vehicle, with the missile in full profile and the launch pad at the bottom of the sheet and patriotic symbols (Flag, head of the Statue of Liberty) at the top. The other side has graphics at the top half, and details of the Liberty Launch System at the bottom half. Development of the Commercial Crew Program began in the second round of the Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program, which was rescoped from a technology development program for human spaceflight to a competitive development program that would produce the spacecraft to be used in the Commercial Crew Program to provide crew transportation services to and from the International Space Station (ISS). To implement the program NASA awarded a series of competitive fixed-price contracts to private vendors starting in 2011. Operational contracts to fly astronauts were awarded in September 2014 to SpaceX and Boeing, and NASA expected each company to complete development and achieve crew rating in 2017. Each company performed an uncrewed orbital test flight in 2019. SpaceX operational flights started in November 2020. SpaceX's Crew Dragon Demo-1 2019 flight of Dragon 2 arrived at the International Space Station in March 2019 and returned via splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean. After completion of its test series, a Crew Dragon spacecraft made its first operational Commercial Crew Program flight, SpaceX Crew-1. The flight launched on 16 November 2020. More

San Diego, CA: Univelt, c1982. 25 cm, 489, illus., usual library markings. More

New York: Random House Reference Pub. 2000. First Edition. First Printing. 128, illus., index, usual library markings, DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ pasted to boards "Scientific American" presents over 60 inventions developed by NASA for use in space and shows how they are used every day on Earth. Vividly designed spreads and clear diagrams explain how each works. Organized by subject, with cross-references. More

New York: McGraw-Hill, [1963]. Hardcover. 24 cm, 422 pages, illustrations. Name written in ink inside front board, DJ worn, torn in places, and missing small pieces. Space Communications can be defined as communications between a vehicle in outer space and Earth, using high-frequency electromagnetic radiation (radio waves). Provision for such communication is an essential requirement of any space mission. The total communication system ordinarily includes (1) command, the transmission of instructions to the spacecraft; (2) telemetry, the transmission of scientific and applications data from the spacecraft to Earth; and (3) tracking, the determination of the distance (range) from Earth to the spacecraft and its radial velocity (range-rate) toward or away from Earth by the measurement of the round-trip radio transmission time and Doppler frequency shift (magnitude and direction). A specialized but commercially important application, which is excluded from consideration here, is the communications satellite system in which the spacecraft serves solely as a relay station between remote points on Earth. More

New York: Gallery Books, c1984. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 30 cm, 72, color illus., bookplate. More

London: F. Watts, 1985. 26 cm, 32, color illus., usual library markings. More

Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press {National Academy Press], 2000. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xii, 249 p. Illustrations. COda. Bibliography. Index. More

Washington, DC: Scientific and Technical Information Branch, National Aeronautics and... 1984. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. vii, [1], 175, [3] p. : ill. (some col. ) 36 cm. References. Index. More

Washington, DC: NASA, 1970. Quarto, 23, wraps, figures, tables, references, ink name on front cover. More

London: Macmillan Children's Books, 1980. First Edition. Quarto, 31, profusely illus. in color, pictures clipped pp. 21, 27, 29 (loss of text), small stains and some soiling to text. More