The Exploration of Space
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951. Book Club Edition. 199, illus., color frontis, endpaper illus., index, DJ somewhat worn and soiled: small tears, small piece missing at top of spine. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951. Book Club Edition. 199, illus., color frontis, endpaper illus., index, DJ somewhat worn and soiled: small tears, small piece missing at top of spine. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. 117 pages. Illustrations. Some discoloration inside boards, DJ somewhat worn and soiled: small tears, small pieces missing at spine, small rough spot front DJ. Derived from a Kirkus review: A discussion of the outlook, probabilities and possibilities of present and future space travel--by the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society. This has the potential to be one of the most authoritative books for the general audience. This surveys the rocket, jet and space travel world from man's earliest thoughts about them. Coming up through history then, Mr. Clarke traces developments down to the German V-2 and the latest modern models. Turning skyward he analyzes the atmosphere, the planets and their positions in the universe, the work now going on for flight to them, and what may happen when man gets to the moon. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1965. First Printing. 241, figures, appendix, references, some wear to top and bottom edges of DJ. 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
Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. First edition and first printing thus. Reprinted from Solar Physics, Volume 162, Nos. 1-2, 1995. Hardcover. xii, 531, [1] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Formulae. References. The SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory), was a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA to study the Sun, from its deep core to the outer corona, and the solar wind. To achieve its scientific goals it carried a complement of twelve sophisticated, state-of-the-art instruments. Three helioseismology instruments were expected to provide unique data for the study of the structure and dynamics of the solar interior, from the very deep core to the outermost layers of the convection zone. A set of five complementary remote sensing instruments, consisting of EUV and UV imagers, spectrographs and coronagraphs were intended to give the first comprehensive view of the outer solar atmosphere and corona, leading to a better understanding of the enigmatic coronal heating and solar wind acceleration processes. Finally, three experiments were to complement the remote sensing observations by making in-situ measurement of the composition and energy of the solar wind and charged energetic particles. This volume contains detailed descriptions of all the twelve instruments on board SOHO. Also included are an overview paper and a description of the SOHO ground system, science operations, and data products. The aim of these papers was to make the broader scientific community, and in particular potential guest investigators, aware of the scientific objectives and capability of the SOHO payload and to provide a reference document for the various instruments. More
Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration and U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974. Reprint from AIAA. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. Quarto. [5], 67 pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Charts. Glossary of Terms. Slight wear to cover and spine edges. Reprinted with permission from American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Prepared by Members of the AIAA Technical Committees on Space Systems and Space and Atmospheric Physics. This book outlines the potential achievements of solar system exploration, and provides a sourcebook of information on the solar system and the technology being brought to bear for its exploration. This Review is one of a series of Assessments and Reviews prepared in the public interest by the AIAA. The AIAA is a professional society for the field of aerospace engineering. The AIAA was founded in 1963 from the merger of two earlier societies: the American Rocket Society (ARS), founded in 1930 as the American Interplanetary Society (AIS), and the Institute of the Aerospace Sciences (IAS), founded in 1932 as the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences. More