Highlights in Astronomy
San Francisco, CA: W. H. Freeman & Company, 1975. Second Printing. 179, wraps, illus. (some in color), index, questions and topics for discussion, pencil erasure on half-title, some cover wear/soil. More
San Francisco, CA: W. H. Freeman & Company, 1975. Second Printing. 179, wraps, illus. (some in color), index, questions and topics for discussion, pencil erasure on half-title, some cover wear/soil. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. First Printing. 309, A humor novel by one of the original members of Monty Python's Flying Circus. More
Arlington, VA: High Frontier, Inc. and the Space Transportation Association, 1991. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Trade paperback. iii, [1], 134, [2] pages. Illustrations. References. Cover has some wear and soiling. Space Transportation Association is dedicated to supporting policies that advance robust, affordable space transportation for NASA, DoD, and commercial markets. STA events aim to education and update policy makers, industry representatives and Federal government employees on the latest issues in the space community. The Association's corporate members are launch manufacturers and launch service providers. STA was founded in 1989 by LTG Dan Graham (US Army, ret.), MG Milnor Roberts (US Army, ret.), and BG Bob Richardson (US Air Force, ret.), with the objective of expanding reliable access to Space for military, civilian, and commercial purposes. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1961. First Edition. First Printing. 898, illus., diagrams, tables, usual library markings, front flyleaf removed, pencil ticks on table of contents. More
New York: Plenum Press, 1961. First Edition. First Printing. 454, illus., diagrams, tables, usual library markings (some blacked over), tape residue inside boards, DJ in plastic sleeve. More
New York: Plenum Press, Inc., 1959. 460, illus., diagrams, usual library markings (some blacked out), tape residue inside boards. More
New York: Plenum Press, Inc., 1960. 356, illus., diagrams, tables, usual library markings (some blacked over), DJ in plastic sleeve, tape residue inside boards. More
London: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and Taylor & Francis, 1984. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. viii, 104 pages. Illustrations (some in color) and diagrams. Further Reading. Index. Some page discoloration noted. Cover has some wear and soiling. Bhupendra Jasani has an MSc in nuclear physics and a Ph.D. in nuclear physics and nuclear medicine. He joined the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in Sweden in February 1972 before joining, in October 1987, the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, London. In 1984 he conceptualized the Western European Union Satellite Centre, the concept that was realized in 1991 when the Centre was established near Madrid, Spain where he worked training the image interpreters. The Centre is now known as the European Union Satellite Centre supporting the European Union and is one of the key institutions for European Union’s Security and Defence policy. In 1990, he joined the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, University of London where he developed the use of commercial remote sensing satellites for applications to monitor multilateral arms control treaties, confidence building measures and peacekeeping operations by, for example, the United Nations. In 2003 the European Commission (EC) established a study called the Global Monitoring for Security and Stability in which he coordinated treaty monitoring and early warning of conflicts and natural disasters projects using commercial remote sensing satellites. This is now successfully completed. He was a part of an EC funded project, HAWKEYE, which dealt with the development of an air- and space-based hyper-spectral sensor. More
Pasadena, CA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2005. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Poster, images and text on both sides. The format is approximately 33 inches by 25.5 inches. Some wear at folds. The most prominent side, because of the very large image of Saturn, has National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the upper left corner and Saturn Jewel Of The Solar System at the lower right. On the other side are nine text and image panels, including on presenting NASA Educational Resources. The other panels are titled: Saturn: Jewel of the Solar System; Saturn in the Classroom; Saturn in the Night Sky; Exploring Saturn; Reading, Writing, Rings; Saturn in the Neighborhood (includes Cassini Resources); Touring Saturn, and Reading, Writing, Rings (Continued, Procedure - Part Two). Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest planet in our solar system. Adorned with thousands of beautiful ringlets, Saturn is unique among the planets. It is not the only planet to have rings – made of chunks of ice and rock – but none are as spectacular or as complicated as Saturn's. Like fellow gas giant Jupiter, Saturn is a massive ball made mostly of hydrogen and helium. The spacecraft Cassini-Huygens was launched from Earth in 1997 and arrived at Saturn in July 2004. It is exploring the mysteries of Saturn, its rings and many moons; it has been zooming past Saturn and its moons regularly since 2004. The Huygens Probe landed on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, in January 2005. The Cassini spacecraft continued to send back data until September 15, 2017, when it dove into Saturn's atmosphere, sending science data for as long as its small thrusters can keep the spacecraft's antenna pointed at Earth. More
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, 1982. Presumed first edition/first printing. Pamphlet. 48 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Select Bibliography. Cover has some wear and soiling. Corner of page 47/8 has a small crease. More
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2008. Collector's Edition. Wraps. Format is approximately 9 inches by 11 inches. 120 pages, plus covers. Illustrations (some in color). Foreword by Ray Bradbury. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Poster on 50 Years of Exploring Space is present. Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. He worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery fiction. Widely known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, and his science-fiction and horror- story collections, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and I Sing the Body Electric, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th- and 21st-century American writers. Recipient of numerous awards, including a 2007 Pulitzer Citation, Bradbury also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. The New York Times called Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream" More
New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2019. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [6], 248, [2] pages. Illustrations. Decorative DJ has some wear, creases and soiling. DJ has a tear sat the bottom, spine and front and back edges, repaired with tape from the inside. Some staining to bottom edge. Cover wear and tear at top edge. Creola Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. During her 33-year career at NASA and its predecessor, she earned a reputation for mastering complex manual calculations and helped pioneer the use of computers. The space agency noted her 'historical role as one of the first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist'. Johnson's work included calculating trajectories, launch windows, and emergency return paths for Project Mercury spaceflights, including those for astronauts Alan Shepard, the first American in space, and John Glenn, the first American in orbit, and rendezvous paths for the Apollo Lunar Module and command module on flights to the Moon. Her calculations were also essential to the beginning of the Space Shuttle program. She was known as a "human computer" for her tremendous mathematical capability and ability to work with space trajectories. In 2015, President Obama awarded Johnson the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2016, she was presented with the Silver Snoopy Award and a NASA Group Achievement Award. In 2019, Johnson was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the United States Congress. More
Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office, 1977. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Quarto. xiii, [1], 185, [1] pages. Wraps. Illustrations (some in color). Tables. Charts. Figures. Appendices. References. Units and Conversion factors. Small stains fore-edge, small tear front cover. Some wear to cover and spine edges. Editor Richard D. Johnson was with the NASA Ames Research Center. Editor Charles Holbrow was with Colgate University. The Technical Director, Gerard K. O'Neill of Princeton University made essential contributions by providing information based on his notes and calculations from six years of prior work on space colonization and by carefully reviewing the technical aspects of the study. Eric Burgess also made major contributions. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1977. Quarto, 491, illus. (some color), tables, charts, references, appendices, index, sl waviness to a few pgs, some scuffing to bds & spine. More
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, [1], 322 pages. Timeline. Notes. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page--For General (Doctor) David Petraeus--Great Soldier, Scholar, American with many thanks and much respect Fred Kaplan 3 Sept 2011. Fred M. Kaplan (born July 4, 1954) is an American author and journalist. His weekly "War Stories" column for Slate magazine covers international relations and U.S. foreign policy. He received a Ph.D. (1983) in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1982, he contributed to "War and Peace in the Nuclear Age," a Sunday Boston Globe Magazine special report on the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms race that received the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1983. His book on the individuals who created American nuclear strategy in the late 1940s and '50s, The Wizards of Armageddon, won the Washington Monthly Political Book of the Year award. He published Daydream Believers in 2008, a work which analyzes the George W. Bush administration's use of Cold War tactics in post-9/11 military activities. In late 2012, Kaplan published The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War, which examines how General David Petraeus attempted to implement new thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq regarding the traditional clear and hold counter-insurgency strategy and the individuals who defined it. In 2009, he published 1959: The Year Everything Changed. The book argues that history was not changed by the counter-culture movements of the 1960s but rather by artistic, scientific, political, & economics events occurring in the year 1959. More
New York: American Astronautical Soc. 1964. First? Edition. First? Printing. 119, diagrams, footnotes, usual library markings. More
Kennedy Space Center, FL: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Kennedy Space Center, 2009. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Magazine. 12 pages, including covers. Illustrations (color). The NASA Technology Transfer program ensures that innovations developed for exploration and discovery are broadly available to the public, maximizing the benefit to the Nation. The nation's lead launch center and first spaceport, the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) performs preflight tests and prepares and launches manned and unmanned space vehicles for NASA. KSC develops new technologies that support its three major missions: Launch and Vehicle Processing Systems, Payload and Payload Carrier Systems and Landing and Recovery Systems. KSC prioritizes new work commitments to the development of technologies that support the creation and operation of new spaceport facilities for Earth, in space and on other planets. Under the Innovative Partnerships Program, NASA secures patents on technologies and makes these inventions available to industry through Technology Transfer or Patent Licensing which is administered by the NASA Office of General Counsel, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC. NASA has the authority to grant licenses on its domestic and foreign patents and patent applications pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 207-209. NASA has implemented this authority by means of the NASA Patent Licensing Regulations, 37 CFR § 404. All of NASA licenses are individually negotiated with the prospective licensee, and each license contains terms concerning commercialization (practical application), license duration, royalties, and periodic reporting. NASA patent licenses may be exclusive, partially exclusive, or nonexclusive. More
New York: Harper & Row, [1964]. First Edition. 22 cm, 293, index, DJ worn, soiled, edge tears, and chips, pencil erasure & sticker residue on front endpaper. Foreword by Lyndon Johnson. More
New York: Harper & Row, [1964]. First Edition. 22 cm, 293, index, long ink notation inside front flyleaf, some wear to boards. Foreword by Lyndon Johnson. More
New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1993. First Printing. 104, illus., index, title page partly detached, large ink "8" ins fr bd, library stamps inside rear flyleaf crossed out in marker DJ in plastic sleeve, library stickers on DJ and plastic sleeve (some crossed out in marker), library stamp on fore-edge. Book for young readers. More
New York: Putnam, c1960. Book Club? Edition. 21 cm, 283, illus., ink notation facing title page, pencil marks and erasures to endpages. More
Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2013. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Wraps. 29 pages, plus 3 pages of the covers. Includes: illustrations, diagrams. Endnotes. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Actinide Research Quarterly is a publication of the Stockpile Manufacturing and Support Directorate. The directors of the Seaborg Institute for Transactinium Science serve as the magazine's scientific advisors. The Actinide Research Quarterly reports on research in actinide science in areas such as process chemistry, metallurgy, surface and separation sciences, atomic and molecular sciences, actinide ceramics and nuclear fuels, characterization, spectroscopy, analysis, and manufacturing technologies. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: NASA, 1967. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 132, wraps, illus., figures, tables, references, glossary, some wear, soiling, & sticker residue to covers. More
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxix, [1], 270, [4] pages. Illustrations (some with color). Foreword by Roger D. Launius. Acknowledgments. List of Abbreviations. Introduction. On the Shoulders of Giants: Developing the Technology. 1971: Mariner 9 Mars Orbit. 1972 and 1973: Pioneer 10 and 11 Jupiter and Saturn Flybys. 174 and 1976: Helios 1 and 2 Solar Probes. 1973: Mariner 10 Venus and Mercury Flybys. 1975: Viking 1 and 2 Mars Orbits and Landings. 1977 Voyager 1 and 2 Flybys of the Outer Planets. 1978: Pioneer Venus 1 and 2 Orbit and Probes. Epilogue: From Gloom of Night to New Light of Dawn. Appendix. Notes. References. Index. This is one of the Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight Series. Robert Samuel Kraemer (October 21, 1928 – August 20, 2013) was an American aerospace engineer who served as Director of Planetary Programs at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1971 to 1976. Robert Kraemer was hired by Rocketdyne where he designed rocket engines. Kraemer served as the head of Advanced Design at Rocketdyne, designing or overseeing the development of the engines that powered Jupiter, Thor, Atlas, and Saturn rockets. Kraemer joined NASA in 1967. He was appointed as manager of Advanced Planetary Programs and Technology, and immediately began plans for a Mars orbiter. Beginning in 1969, he also chaired the Outer Planets Working Group (OPWG), which met monthly to review mission plans under development to explore the outer planets, and make recommendations. In June 1970, Kraemer became the Director of Planetary Programs. More
Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Apogee Books, 2006. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. 296 pages. Cover has folded flaps back and front. Illustrations (a few in color). Glossary. Bibliography. Foreword by Edgar Mitchell, Captain, USN (Ret) Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot. This is an Aerospace Technology Working Group sponsored book. Bob Krone is a global educator, author, and consultant in Advanced Management theory and practice. He is President of the Kepler Space Institute; An Emeritus Professor of the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, U.S.A. (1975-1993); was a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Business at La Sierra University in Riverside, California, U.S.A.(1992-2007); and an Adjunct Professor for Doctoral Programs in the International Graduate School of Business at the University of South Australia (1995-present). He authored or co-authored seven books and 72 professional journal articles. More