Evolution of the Solar System
Washington, DC: NASA, 1976. 26 cm, 599, illus., boards somewhat worn and soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper, edges soiled. More
Washington, DC: NASA, 1976. 26 cm, 599, illus., boards somewhat worn and soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper, edges soiled. More
Washington, DC: AIAA, 1992. First? Edition. First? Printing. 716, wraps, a few illustrations but mostly textual summaries, some ink marks in text, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1969. 20th Anniversary Edition. Wraps. Oversized, 24, wraps, profusely illus. in color, covers somewhat soiled. More
Washington DC: National Academy Press, 2001. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. xxiii, [1], 21, [3] pages. Boxes. Ink marks on pages xiii, xv and 21 noted. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ONLY. This work was performed under the auspices of the Institute of Medicine, Board of Health Sciences Policy, Committee on Creating a Vision for Space Medicine During Travel Beyond Earth Orbit. More
Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk, 1960. Quarto, 149 + plates, 18 pages of plates at the end of the volume (28 photographs & 2 large folded photographs), large map of lunar surface laid in. More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1973. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 12 inches by 15 inches. 267 pages. Illustrated endpaper. 278 illustrations, including 143 in full color (from DJ front flap) and fold-out mission diagram. Some illustrations are tipped in (two have some looseness. Includes essays entitled Man and the Moon by Silvio A. Bedini, A Step Toward Immortality by Wernher von Braun, and The Moon Gives Up Its Secrets by Fred Whipple. Other sections are entitled: Introduction, The Space Age, Apollo 11 To the Moon, Moon Talk, The Moon Revisited [about the Apollo 12 mission], and Space Age Chronology. There is a listing of Maps and Charts and Photo and Chart Credits. The title page has the signatures in ink of Silvio A. Bedini and the crews of Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Charles Conrad, Dick Gordon, and Alan Bean). The pages are made of high gloss paper, and ink can bead before drying. It has been reported that NASA astronauts were provided with signature stamps they could personally use, in addition to, or instead of, personally signing items. In this book, there are variations in the color in some signatures, such as Dick Gordon's, which make his signature more likely to be personally signed than personally stamped. It is clear is that each of the six astronauts personally signed or stamped their signatures on this book, most likely at the same time. The book has been clearly signed by the author Silvio A. Bedini. This is a wonderful book that is focused on the missions of Apollo 11 and 12, and has this signature connection to each crew member. Rare in any signed form. More
Houston, EX: Pioneer Publications, Inc., 1998. presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. iv, 116 pages. Illustrations (color). Index of Space Pictures. Index. Irene Klotz Brown has written about the U.S. civilian, military, and commercial aerospace programs, as well as the international space station activities for many years. She was the lead aerospace reporter for United Press International and a columnist for The Discovery Channel online. In 1988, with NASA preparing to resume space shuttle flights after a three-year, post Challenger hiatus, She joined a pioneering team of Gannett reporters that produced nationally acclaimed coverage and award-winning special editions chronicling NASA's return to space. More
Tampa, FL: Faircount LLC, 2008. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Quarto, 368, wraps, profusely illustrated in color, fold-out NASA timeline at center of the volume, slight wear and soiling to covers. This magazine was published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of NASA. Among the many articles are "50 Years of NASA History" by Steven J. Dick, NASA Chief Historian; "Sputnik and the Creation of NASA: A Personal Perspective" by Eilene Galloway; "Ten Presidents and NASA" by John M. Logsdon; and "NASA Engineers & Scientists: Transforming Dreams Into Reality" by A.J.S. Rayl. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1980. Quarto, 211, profusely illus., color frontis illus., maps, references, boards & spine slightly soiled & scuffed, some wear to bd edges. More
Bethesda, MD: 3rd Eye Books, 2003. First Edition. First? Printing. 189, wraps, covers slightly worn and soiledFive inventive young teens and one homemade robot are spending their summer at a futuristic space camp playing with abandoned satellites--space junk. When mysterious events begin to wreak havoc on Earth, the campers power up the antique satellites and send outdated rockets to help save their home planet. Inanimate objects such as the Hubble Space Telescope, Keyhole spy satellites and Reagan-era laser platforms figure prominently in the plot. The dialogue is sharp-witted, theaction continuous, and the ending a bombshell. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, c1982. Hardcover. 24 cm, 308 pages. Signed by the author (Cetron). More
Washington, DC: NASA, 1984. First Edition. 128, wraps, color illus., footnotes, references. More
New York: Julian Messner, 1979. First? Edition. First? Printing. 212, illus., glossary of space terms, index, boards somewhat worn and soiled. Foreword by Gordon Cooper. More
New York: Meredith Press, 1967. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiv, 301, [3] pages. Signed by the Editor on the fep. Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was an English science-fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely regarded as one of the most influential films of all time. Clarke was a science fiction writer, an avid popularizer of space travel, and a futurist of a distinguished ability. He wrote many books and many essays for popular magazines. In 1961, he received the Kalinga Prize, a UNESCO award for popularizing science. Clarke's science and science-fiction writings earned him the moniker "Prophet of the Space Age". His science-fiction writings in particular earned him a number of Hugo and Nebula awards, which along with a large readership, made him one of the towering figures of the genre. For many years Clarke, Robert Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction. Clarke was a lifelong proponent of space travel. In 1934, while still a teenager, he joined the BIS, British Interplanetary Society. In 1945, he proposed a satellite communication system using geostationary orbits. He was the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society from 1946 to 1947 and again in 1951–1953. Clarke emigrated to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1956, to pursue his interest in scuba diving. Clarke augmented his popularity in the 1980s, as the host of television shows such as Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World. He lived in Sri Lanka until his death. More
Washington, DC: NASA, 1978. First? Edition. First? Printing. 29 x 36 cm, 128, illus., references, index, usual library markings, front hinge cracked. More
Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of External Relations, NASA History Division, 2005. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. ix, [1], 294 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Steven J. Dick (born October 24, 1949, Evansville, Indiana) is an American astronomer, author, and historian of science most noted for his work in the field of astrobiology. Dick served as the Chief Historian for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 2003 to 2009 and as the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology from 2013 to 2014. Before that, he was an astronomer and historian of science at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, from 1979 to 2003. In 2003, he was named the Chief Historian for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). During his years at NASA, Dick wrote on the importance of exploration to society, commissioned numerous histories of spaceflight, and edited several volumes on the societal impact of space flight and on the occasion of the 50th anniversaries of NASA and the space age. Keith Cowing is an astrobiologist, an American former NASA employee and the editor of the American space program blog NASA Watch. He is a credentialed NASA journalist and is known to be a critic of NASA activities and policies. Cowing is a strong supporter of human spaceflight. For several years, NASA refused to accredit Cowing as a journalist and denied him access to NASA media events. Cowing was eventually granted full press accreditation. Cowing obtained exclusive first-hand information about the genesis of the Vision for Space Exploration, detailed in New Moon Rising. More
Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Division, 2005. Hardcover. ix, 294 p. Illustrations (some in color). Index. More
Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of External Relations, History Division, 2006. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xi, [1], 659, [1] pages. Frontis is a color illustrations. Footnotes. Illustrations. Afterword by Martin Collins. About the Authors. Acronyms and Abbreviations. The NASA History Series. Index. DJ has some soiling and spotting on back. Minor rippling at bottom of several back pages. Steven J. Dick was the Chief Historian for NASA. He worked as an astronomer and historian of science at the U.S. Naval Observatory for about a quarter century before joining NASA. He received the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Medal and a NASA Group Achievement Award. Roger D. Launius was the Chair of the Division of Space History at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. Prior to that he served as NASA's Chief Historian. At the time of this publication, he had written or edited more than 20 books on aerospace history. More
New York: Random House, 1964. First Edition. First Printing. 242, illus. (including one fold-out), footnotes, glossary, related reading material, index, some wear and soiling to DJ. More
Washington, DC: NASA, 1984. 25 cm, 535, wraps, illus. (some in color), errata slip stapled inside front cover, covers scuffed and wrinkled. More
Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, 1995. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. xi, [1], 358, [2] pages. Illustrations (many in color). Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography. Acronyms. Index. Format is 9 inches by 11.5 inches. Cover has some wear and soiling. Richard O. Fimmel was the Manager of Pioneer Missions at the Ames Research Center. In the early 1980s, Ames presented to NASA Headquarters concepts for Pioneer-class missions to the outer and inner planets, under the leadership of Dr. Larry Colin, chief of the Space Science Division at Ames Research. Eric Burgess (1920 – March 2005) was an English journalist, who wrote about the Pioneer program missions since the first tests in 1957. He was the science correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor for many of the planetary probe launches, and was often the senior science reporter present at those events. Burgess is credited with the original idea that the Pioneer probes should carry a message for extraterrestrial intelligences. He approached Carl Sagan, which eventually resulted in the Pioneer plaque. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1977. Revised Edition. Quarto, 217, profusely illus. (many in color), figures, tables, appendices, reading list, index, boards somewhat scuffed & some edge wear. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1980. Quarto, 285, profusely illus. (many in color), maps, figures, tables, appendices, index, boards somewhat scuffed and some edge wear. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1980. Quarto, 285, wraps, profusely illus. (many in color), maps, figures, tables, appendices, index, covers somewhat scuffed and some edge wear. More
Washington, DC: American Astronautical Soc. 1969. First? Edition. First? Printing. 172, illus., usual library markings, sticker inside front board. More