Men from Earth
New York: Bantam Books, 1989. First Printing. 312, illus., references, notes, index, green ink notation inside front flyleaf, front DJ flap price clipped. More
New York: Bantam Books, 1989. First Printing. 312, illus., references, notes, index, green ink notation inside front flyleaf, front DJ flap price clipped. More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1997. Collector's Edition. Limited Edition, Number 1103 of 3000. Leather bound. xxii, 312, [2] pages. Color Frontis Illustration. Illustrations References Notes. Index. Removed from original shrinkwrap for cataloguing. The Easton Press's books are known for their elegant covers. Each book has the following features: Bound in genuine leather; Spine accented with 22 kt gold; Printed on archival paper; and Gilded page edges. The special contents of this edition were copyrighted in 1997 by The Easton Press. Facsimile signature of Buzz Aldrin on front cover. Authentic signature of Buzz Aldrin is on the Collector's Edition page above the number of the limited edition. Laid in is a Certificate of Authenticity signed by Buzz Aldrin and dated 11-20-96 and witnessed by Lois Aldrin and dated 11-20-96. The certificate indicated that the Author received 25 additional unnumbered copies over and above the 3000 individually numbered copies. The Certificate is also signed by Roy S. Pfeil, Publisher. Thus there are two Aldrin autographs! Also laid in is an unattached Easton bookplate. More
Washington, DC: NASA, 1976. 26 cm, 599, illus., boards somewhat worn and soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper, edges soiled. More
San Diego, CA: Univelt, Inc., 1984. First Paperbk Edition. 429, wraps, illus., references, index. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1969. 20th Anniversary Edition. Wraps. Oversized, 24, wraps, profusely illus. in color, covers somewhat soiled. More
San Diego, CA: Univelt, c1982. 25 cm, 489, illus., usual library markings. 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
Washington, DC: NASA, 1988. First? Edition. First? Printing. 169, wraps, illus., diagrams, references, mailing label on rear cover, covers somewhat worn/soiled, pencil erasure on title page. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1979. Oversized, 146, maps, tables, errata, appendices, bibliography, foxing inside boards, flyleaves, & title page, some wear to board corners. 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
Washington DC: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Distributed Active Archive Centers, 2013. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. iv, 52 pages. Illustrations (many in color). Each year Sensing Our Planet features intriguing research that highlights how scientists are using Earth science data to learn about our planet. This publication was produced at the Snow and Ice Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC), at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, under a NASA contract. More
Jerusalem: Israel Program for Sci Trans, 1967. 384, wraps, illus., figures, tables, charts, bibliography, covers and spine somewhat creased and discolored along edges. More
North Hollywood, CA: Western Periodicals Co., 1963. First? Edition. First? Printing. 375, illus., charts, references, usual library markings, boards somewhat worn and soiled. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1985. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. x, [2], 257, [3] pages. Introduction by Frank Borman. Illustrations. Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Gathers anecdotes and little known facts about NASA, manned space flights, code names, astronomers, and space probes. This key reference work presents a snapshot in time, covering key aspects of the U.S. Space Program into the mid-1980s and can serve as a foundation for developing a further understanding of U.S. space program personnel, organizations, developments, and challenges that have occurred since this work was published. Timothy B. Benford is an established author of non-fiction and fiction works and movie scripts. Brian Wilkes is the author of over 40 titles. With his diverse background, he jokes that his goal is to live "all of his re-incarnations simultaneously! More
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2001. First University Press of Florida paperback edition. Second printing [stated]. Trade paperback. 316, xcvii, [3] pages. Frontis. Footnotes. Illustrations. Source Notes. Bibliography. Index. Former owner's name, date, and commentary on half-title. Though volumes on the space program are legion, Benson and Faherty's takes a different tack by tracing the building of the Kennedy Space Center launch complex itself. Originally part of a series by NASA, this includes interviews with many of the key players, as well as pix and design schemes. A nice addition to traditional space flight collections. More
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. Second Printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xxviii, [10], 250, [2] pages. Sticker residue on back cover. An extraordinary memoir by a survivor of the Nazi camps, Yves Béon. Planet Dora is a recollection of life and death in a concentration camp like no other. Dora was a cavernous underground factory cut out of solid rock, where thousands of prisoners beaten, starved, killed, and living underground for weeks at a time. The purpose of all this brutality was to build the world’s first operational rockets: the V-1 and V-2 missiles, Hitler’s vengeance weapons. Some of Germany’s most brilliant engineers were involved with production at Dora, including Werner von Braun, who after the war went on to become the father of the American space program. It was his Saturn V rocket, designed with the help of his wartime comrades, that put the first man on the moon; while the Saturn V project was headed by the same man who had been the director of slave labor in Dora. In fact, some of the very rockets built in Dora were packed up after the war and shipped to New Mexico to serve as the seeds of the U.S. space program. The greatest technological achievement of the twentieth century had its origins in the enslavement and murder of thousands of innocent people, the down payment of a Faustian bargain that still tarnishes the foundation of our reach for the stars. More
Washington DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2007. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. ii, 242, [26] pages. Index. Cover worn and soiled with tear at bottom spine. Ink marks and circles to text in a number of places noted. Some corners creased. Pages 5-26 had become disbound and were reglued into the binding. Connie Bertka is a planetary scientist and former director of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Program for Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion. She received her theological training at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., where she also lectures on the intersection of science and religion. Evolution, astrobiology, and science education are among her topics of special interest. More
Washington, DC: NASA, 1965. Second printing [stated]. Wraps. vii, [1], 511, [1] pages. Wraps. Covers have some wear and soiling. Ex-library with usual library markings. Stamp and ink mark on front cover. Ink mark inside rear cover. The two authors were associated with the Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Chapter 5 on Gas-lubricated bearings was by J. A. Ausman and Chapter 7 on Liquid Lubricants was by Douglas H. Moreton. All other chapters were written by one or the other of the principal authors. Bisson retired from NASA in 1973 and was noted as the scientist who decades earlier had introduced Tribology to the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (the predecessor of NASA.). More
Washington, DC: NASA, 1965. Second printing [stated]. Wraps. vii, [1], 511, [1] pages. Wraps. Covers have some wear and soiling. The two authors were associated with the Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Chapter 5 on Gas-lubricated bearings was by J. A. Ausman and Chapter 7 on Liquid Lubricants was by Douglas H. Moreton. All other chapters were written by one or the other of the principal authors. Bisson retired from NASA in 1973 and was noted as the scientist who decades earlier had introduced Tribology to the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (the predecessor of NASA). William J. Anderson was at one time the Chief of the Mechanical Technologies Branch At Lewis Research Center. More
Hampton, VA: NASA Langley Research Center, 1982. Quarto, 440, wraps, illus., charts, tables, references, paper clips in margins of several pages, pencil notes on front cover. More
Greenbelt, MD: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1999. Second Printing [stated]. Wraps. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. ii 48, [2] pages plus covers. Color illustrations. References. Jay Bookbinder became Director of Programs and Projects at NASA Ames. Dr. Tananbaum served as Director of the Chandra X-Ray Center (CXC) at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass. from 1991-2014. The CXC is responsible for operating the Chandra X-Ray Observatory in orbit, for supporting the broad community of scientists who observe with Chandra, and for disseminating the Chandra science results to the public. Dr. Tananbaum received his B. A. in physics from Yale University in 1964, and his Ph.D. in physics from MIT in 1968. He began his career as a Staff Scientist at American Science & Engineering, Inc., and has been an Astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) since 1973. He directed SAO's High Energy Astrophysics Division from 1981 through 1993. More
Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of External Relations, History Division, 2004. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. x, 187, [3]] pages. Illustrations( nearly 150 images). Endnotes. Appendices (includes timeline, reactor experiments, reactor cycle dates, and organizational charts). This is number 33 in the Monographs in Aerospace History series. Bottom edge shows some soiling and staining. Minor previous damp signs. Mark D. Bowles is Professor of History at American Public University System, founder of HistoryFeeddotorg, and author of 14 books on the history of science and technology. He earned his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 1999, and was a Tomash Fellow at the University of Minnesota. He also has MA in history, an MBA in technology management, and a BA in psychology. Dr. Bowles has worked full time at American Public University System for over five years. He has also founded a public history company, BelleHistorydotcom. Robert S. Arrighi was with the NASA History Division. More
Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch, 1979. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 538, [4] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Appendices. Source Notes. Bibliographical Notes. Index. Library binding. Ex-library with usual library markings. Courtney G. Brooks was a Research Associate in the History Department of the University of Houston from 1969 to 1974. In that capacity he coauthored the NASA sponsored history of the development of the Apollo spacecraft, now in final revision. Born in Savannah, Georgia (1939), he received his B.A. degree from Huntingdon College, Montgomery, Alabama (1964), and his M.A. (1966) and Ph.D. (1969) degrees in history from Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. James M. Grimwood has been NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Historian since 1962. He was born in Lincoln, Alabama (1922), taking his A.B. degree from Howard College, Birmingham, Alabama (1948), and his M.A. in History from the University of Alabama. He taught history in secondary schools (1950-1952), and at San Antonio College in Texas (1958-1960). Grimwood was an Air Force Historian in South Carolina and Texas (1953-1960). Prior to joining MSC, he was historian with the Army Missile Command, Huntsville, Alabama, preparing histories of Army missile systems. He is a joint author of This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury, and author of Project Mercury: A Chronology. Loyd S. Swenson, Jr. co-authored the history of the Mercury and Apollo space programs and was an authority on the work of Albert Einstein, beginning with his research and publications on aether drift, and was a major contributor in field of history of science and technology. 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
Washington, DC: GPO, 1987. Quarto, 172, illus. (some color), figures, appendices, bibliography, library stamps, barcode, & due slip, boards scuffed & edges worn. More