Men, Rockets and Space Rats
New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1956. Second Printing. 335, illus., glossary, index, bookplate inside front board, boards scuffed and scratched, tear at spine and small piece missing. More
New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1956. Second Printing. 335, illus., glossary, index, bookplate inside front board, boards scuffed and scratched, tear at spine and small piece missing. More
New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1961. Second Revised Edition. Sixth Printing. 368, illus., glossary, index, lib stamp, rough spot ins rear bd, tape stains ins bds, pencil & ink underlining on several pgs. More
New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1956. Second Printing. 335, illus., glossary, index, library stamps & pocket, some soiling to fore-edge, DJ worn & soiled: sm tears, sm pieces missing. More
New York: Harper & Row [a Push Pin Press Book], 1977. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 125, [3] pages. Illustrations. Terminology. Bibliography. Format approximately 8.5 inches by 10.5 inches. Ex-library with usual library markings. Library binding. Pages 8 and 9 repaired with tape. Pencil erasure on fep. A spacecraft is a vehicle or machine designed to fly in outer space. Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications, earth observation, meteorology, navigation, space colonization, planetary exploration, and transportation of humans and cargo. On a sub-orbital spaceflight, a spacecraft enters space and then returns to the surface, without having gone into an orbit. For orbital spaceflights, spacecraft enter closed orbits around the Earth or around other celestial bodies. Spacecraft used for human spaceflight carry people on board as crew or passengers from start or on orbit (space stations) only, whereas those used for robotic space missions operate either autonomously or telerobotically. Robotic spacecraft that remain in orbit around a planetary body are artificial satellites. Only a handful of interstellar probes, such as Pioneer 10, Voyager 1, and New Horizons, are on trajectories that leave the Solar System. Orbital spacecraft may be recoverable or not. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1975. Quarto, 756 total, 2 vols., illus., tables, charts, references, appendix, index, DJ's somewhat soiled and edges worn: small tears & creases. More
Denver, CO: Martin Marietta, Public Relations, 1986. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 20 pages plus covers. Illustrations (color). Cover has some wear and soiling. This booklet has five sections: A New Era in Space; Space Station: The Next Logical Step; A Facility to Overshadow All Others; A Better Standard of Living; and Martin Marietta's Heritage. The Martin Marietta Corporation was an American company founded in 1961 through the merger of Glenn L. Martin Company and American-Marietta Corporation. The combined company became a leader in chemicals, aerospace, and electronics. In 1995, it merged with Lockheed Corporation to form Lockheed Martin. Martin Marietta formed in 1961 by the merger of the Glenn L. Martin Company and American-Marietta Corporation. Martin, based in Baltimore, was primarily an aerospace concern with a recent focus on missiles, namely its Titan program. American-Marietta was headquartered in Chicago and produced paints, dyes, metallurgical products, construction materials, and other goods. In 1982, Martin Marietta was subject to a hostile takeover bid by the Bendix Corporation, headed by William Agee. Bendix bought the majority of Martin Marietta shares and in effect owned the company. However, Martin Marietta's management used the short time separating ownership and control to sell non-core businesses and launch its own hostile takeover of Bendix (known as the Pac-Man defense). Thomas G. Pownall, CEO of Martin Marietta, was successful and the end of this extraordinarily bitter battle saw Martin Marietta survive. More
Denver, CO: Martin Marietta Denver Aerospace, 1987. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Single sheet, printed on both sides. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches, printed on both sides. Illustrations and text on both sides. The front side has a drawing of the Space Station at the top left and a photo of Denver Aerospace at the bottom left. On the rear side there is mostly text and a photo of the Smart Front End on Manned Maneuvering Unit. In 1955, the Glenn L. Martin Co. of Baltimore proposed to the U.S. Air Force building a factory southwest of Denver to manufacture Titan I intercontinental ballistic missiles. “At the time, most of the aerospace industry was on the coasts,” said Lockheed spokesman Evan McCollum. “They wanted this very important ICBM factory to be in a safer inland site.” The Martin Co. later became Martin Marietta and now is Lockheed Martin space systems. And the Titan I’s larger and more powerful successor, Titan II, was selected by NASA for use in the Gemini manned spaceflight program in the 1960s. The Titan was used to launch 10 manned Gemini spacecraft, carrying astronauts that included Gus Grissom, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin ” along with Neil Armstrong and others. Lockheed has built 526 Titan rockets to date. More
Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office, 1978. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Oversized (approximately 9.25 inches by 11.75 inches). c, [1], 255, [1] pages. Endpaper maps. Profusely illustrated (many in color). Maps. Appendix. Glossary. References and bibliography. Boards scuffed. Some wear to edges of boards and spine. Photographs from Apollo missions 15 through 17. Fifteen contributors listed on the title page. Man has always wondered and dreamed about the landscape of the distant and intriguing Moon. The first step in deciphering surface details of Earth's only satellite was initiated when Galileo Galilei trained is crude telescope toward our closest neighbor in the sky. A greater step came with the advent of the space age when automated spacecraft telemetered their intelligence to Earth. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1976. First? Edition. First? Printing. 38, wraps, illus., name stamped on front page. Number 75-422, August 10, 1976. More
Toronto: The Carswell Company Limited, 1978. First? Edition. First? Printing. 661, v.3 only, text in English and French, footnotes, tables. More
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x,294 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Howard E. McCurdy is professor of public affairs in the public administration and policy department at American University. McCurdy is considered an expert on space policy and NASA. In 1998, he was selected to be the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History, a one-year fellowship at the National Air and Space Museum. McCurdy received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Washington and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. Elizabeth Hand reviewed McCurdy's history of the U.S. space program: "In Space and the American Imagination, Howard McCurdy doesn't give us the right stuff but the real stuff, the minutiae of policy debate and political razzing that brought the space program into being and seems destined to bury it. It's ... an important one [book]. Examining the popular images that have spurred Americans' enthusiasm in the space program, the author shows how the conquest of space appealed to the nation's deepest cultural ideals and became part of the Cold War effort. More
Huntington Beach, CA: McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company, 1987. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 8 inches by 12 inches. 8 pages plus covers. Rear cover is a fold out. This appears to be marketing material aimed at developing NASA's Space Station and was communicating to NASA leadership that the "Five Star Team" sought to be contracted to deliver NASA's Work Package 2 (WP-2), under the direction of the Johnson Space Center. The team assembled by McDonnell Douglas also included Honeywell, IBM, Lockheed and RCA, making up--with McDonnell Douglas (making up the Five Stars). WP-2 consisted of key structural elements: Truss structure, Mobile Base for the Mobile Servicing Center, Airlocks, and Resource Nodes. It also included: External Thermal Control; Extravehicular Activity (EVA), Data Management, Communications and Tracking; Guidance, Navigation and Control, and Propulsion. 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
New York: Wiley, c1987. First Printing. 24 cm, 237, illus., usual library markings A nice look at the future of spaceflight. Writing with great clarity, McDonough examines the space shuttle, the strategic defense initiative, the value of manned versus unmanned flight, space stations, a lunar base, Mars, etc. More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1963. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 1147, endpaper illus., footnotes, tables of cases, indexes, usual library markings, front board weak. More
San Diego, CA: Univelt, Inc., 1983. First Edition. First Printing. 296, illus., diagrams, index, usual library markings. More
New York: Inst of Electrical Engineers, 1986. First? Edition. First? Printing. 260, illus., index, DJ somewhat worn, soiled, edge tears and chips. More
Chicago, IL: Rand McNally & Company, 1983. First Printing. quarto, 61, profusely illus. (many in color), chronology, index, rear bd weak, ins fr hinge reinforced with wide tape, library stamps several pages creased, ink marks p. 60, spine reinforced with black tape and clear tape, boards scuffed and edges worn, library call number taped on front board, library stickers on rear board crossed out in marker. Book for young readers. More
San Diego, CA: American Astronautical Soc. 1985. First Printing. 716, wraps, illus., figures, tables, references, appendices, index, some wear to cover and spine edges. More
San Diego, CA: American Astronautical Soc. 1985. First Printing. 716, wraps, illus., figures, tables, references, appendices, index, usual library markings, some wear and soiling to covers & spine. More
Phoenix, AZ: Petley Studios, Inc. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Postcard. Format is approximately 6 inches by 4 inches. Dennis McLeveen was a photographer with the Department of Defense, based out of El Paso, Texas. The front is a color photograph entitled White Sands where the Space Shuttle landed at the top and a color image of the Shuttle against a hilly backdrop. On the reverse at the top left is the following text: Space Shuttle Columbia NASA's shuttle Columbia ended its third space transportation system test mission with a landing at Northrup Strip on White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, on March 30, 1982. Later this 100 ton orbiter was carried piggyback on a Boeing 747 to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. No writing on this postcard--it had not been sent anywhere. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm. This is volume 3 in the Frontiers of Space series. x, [2], 241, [3] pages. Illustrations. Source Notes. Abbreviations. List of Illustrations. Index. Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke. John Luther McLucas (August 22, 1920 – December 1, 2002) was United States Secretary of the Air Force from 1973 to 1975, becoming Secretary of the Air Force on July 19, 1973. He had been Acting Secretary of the Air Force since May 15, 1973, and Under Secretary of the Air Force since March 1969. Prior to his appointment as Under Secretary, he was president and chief executive officer of MITRE Corporation, of Bedford, Massachusetts, and McLean, Virginia. McLucas received his doctorate in physics from Pennsylvania State University in 1950. From 1950 to 1957, he was vice president and technical director of Haller, Raymond and Brown Inc., an electronics firm. In 1958 he was made president of HRB-Singer Inc. He joined the Department of Defense in May 1962 and served as Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering (Tactical Warfare Programs). Two years later, he was appointed as assistant secretary general for scientific affairs at NATO Headquarters in Paris, France. In 1966 he became president of MITRE Corp. From 1969 through 1973, McLucas also served as director of the National Reconnaissance Office, working directly for the secretary of defense with support from the Central Intelligence Agency. In November 1975, President Ford swore in Dr. McLucas as the eighth administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1969. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm. This is volume 3 in the Frontiers of Space series. x, [2], 241, [3] pages. Illustrations. Source Notes. Abbreviations. List of Illustrations. Index. Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke. Inscribed and dated by author on fep. John Luther McLucas (August 22, 1920 – December 1, 2002) was United States Secretary of the Air Force from 1973 to 1975. He had been Acting Secretary of the Air Force since May 15, 1973, and Under Secretary of the Air Force since March 1969. Prior to his appointment as Under Secretary, he was president and chief executive officer of MITRE Corporation, of Bedford, Massachusetts, and McLean, Virginia. McLucas received his doctorate in physics from Pennsylvania State University in 1950. From 1950 to 1957, he was vice president and technical director of Haller, Raymond and Brown Inc., an electronics firm. In 1958 he was made president of HRB-Singer Inc. He joined the Department of Defense in May 1962 and served as Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering (Tactical Warfare Programs). Two years later, he was appointed as assistant secretary general for scientific affairs at NATO Headquarters in Paris, France. In 1966 he became president of MITRE Corp. From 1969 through 1973, McLucas also served as director of the National Reconnaissance Office, working directly for the secretary of defense with support from the Central Intelligence Agency. In November 1975, President Ford swore in Dr. McLucas as the eighth administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1969. More
Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Division of Public Affairs, 1982. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Quarto. 64 pages. Wraps. Illustrations (many in color). Some wear and creasing to cover edges. Joseph McRoberts was a science writer and a newsman who worked for the Columbia Broadcasting System before joining the Public Affairs organization at NASA. McRoberts began his NASA career in 1962 at NASA Headquarters in Washington as a public affairs officer for the office of applications. In 1973, he was asked to take the post of news chief at Goddard. In 1979, he moved back to NASA Headquarters as public affairs officer for the newly organized office of space science and applications, the position he held until he retired in 1980. In 1977 the Space Telescope became an official NASA program. More
Washington, DC: The Washington Post, 2011. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. 32 pages plus covers. Illustrations. This issue is most noteworthy as it is focuses on the Space Shuttle career from 1981 to 2011. The Washington Post (sometimes abbreviated as WaPo) is a major American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., with a particular emphasis on national politics and the federal government. It has the largest circulation in the Washington metropolitan area. Its slogan "Democracy Dies in Darkness" began appearing on its masthead in 2017. More