Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
New York: Pantheon Books, c1992. First Edition. 24 cm, 532, illus., National Book Award Finalist sticker on DJ. More
New York: Pantheon Books, c1992. First Edition. 24 cm, 532, illus., National Book Award Finalist sticker on DJ. More
Place_Pub: New York: Pantheon Books, c1992. Uncorr Galley Edition. Trade paperback. 24 cm. 530, illus., notes, bibliography, rear cover and several pages creased, covers somewhat worn and soiled Impact of the scientist on the elite particle-physics community, his quantum mechanics theories, and influences on his life. More
Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, Inc., 1998. First Printing. 176, few library markings, pencil erasure on half-title. Foreword by Scott Carpenter. More
New York: Bantam Books, 1999. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. x, 422 pages. Illustrations. Index. Slight creasing to top and bottom DJ edges. Slight edge soiling. John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space, and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic United States Senator from Ohio. Before joining NASA, Glenn was a distinguished fighter pilot in World War II, the Chinese Civil War and the Korean War. He shot down three MiG-15s, and was awarded six Distinguished Flying Crosses and eighteen Air Medals. In 1957, he made the first supersonic transcontinental flight across the United States. His on-board camera took the first continuous, panoramic photograph of the United States. He was one of the Mercury Seven, military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA as the nation's first astronauts. On February 20, 1962, Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth, the third American and fifth person in history to be in space. He received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. Glenn was elected to the Senate in 1974 and served for 24 years, until January 1999. Aged 77, Glenn flew on Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-95 mission, making him the oldest person to enter Earth orbit, and the only person to fly in both the Mercury and the Space Shuttle programs. More
New York: Bantam Books, 1999. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, 422 pages. Illustrations. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Minor edge soiling. Signed by the author (Glenn) on half-title page. John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman and politician. He was the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Before joining NASA, Glenn was a distinguished fighter pilot in World War II, China and Korea. He shot down three MiG-15s, and was awarded six Distinguished Flying Crosses and eighteen Air Medals. In 1957, he made the first supersonic transcontinental flight across the United States. His on-board camera took the first continuous, panoramic photograph of the United States. He was one of the Mercury Seven, military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA as the nation's first astronauts. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, and the fifth person and third American in space. He received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1962, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. A member of the Democratic Party, Glenn was first elected to the Senate in 1974 and served for 24 years, until January 1999. In 1998, while still a sitting senator, Glenn flew on Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-95 mission, making him, at age 77, the oldest person to fly in space and the only person to fly in both the Mercury and the Space Shuttle programs. More
Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Apogee Books, 2001. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Trade paperback. 464 pages with CD in rear pocket. Illustrations (some in color). Diagrams. Maps. The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development. The first of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights beginning in 1982. Five complete Shuttle systems were built and used on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011, launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Operational missions launched numerous satellites, interplanetary probes, and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST); conducted science experiments in orbit; and participated in construction and servicing of the International Space Station. The Shuttle fleet's total mission time was 1322 days, 19 hours, 21 minutes and 23 seconds. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1979. First Edition. First Printing. 288, illus., chronology, acronyms, index, some wear and small tears to top and bottom DJ edges. More
Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Aero, c1988. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 293, wraps, illus., covers very worn and repaired with tape, usual library markings. More
New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2013. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. [8], 295, [1] pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations (some in color). Index. Chris Austin Hadfield (born 29 August 1959) is a Canadian retired astronaut, engineer, and former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot. The first Canadian to walk in space, Hadfield has flown two space shuttle missions and served as commander of the International Space Station. As part of an exchange program with the United States Navy and United States Air Force, he obtained a master's degree in aviation systems at the University of Tennessee Space Institute. He first flew in space aboard STS-74 in November 1995 as a mission specialist. During the mission he visited the Russian space station Mir. In April 2001 he flew again on STS-100 and visited the International Space Station (ISS), where he walked in space and helped to install the Canadarm2. In December 2012 he flew for a third time aboard Soyuz TMA-07M and joined Expedition 34 on the ISS. He was a member of this expedition until March 2013 when he became the commander of the ISS as part of Expedition 35. He was responsible for a crew of five astronauts and helped to run dozens of scientific experiments dealing with the impact of low gravity on human biology. He also gained popularity by chronicling life aboard the space station and taking pictures of the Earth and posting them on various social media platforms to a large following of people around the world. He gained popularity by playing the International Space Station's guitar in space. Shortly after returning, he announced his retirement, capping a 35-year career as a military pilot and an astronaut. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1979. Wraps. Quarto. 116 pages. Wraps. Profusely illustrated (many in color). Maps. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Foreword by Robert A. Frosch. Robert Alan Frosch (born May 22, 1928), is an American scientist who was the fifth administrator of NASA from 1977 to 1981 during the Carter administration. While at NASA, Frosch was responsible for overseeing the continuation of the development effort on the Space Shuttle program. During his tenure, the project underwent testing of the first orbiter, Enterprise, at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in southern California. Introduction by Floyd I Robertson. In 1971 Robertson. Robertson received the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal is an award given for unusually significant scientific accomplishments which contribute to the programs of NASA, the Department of Defense, and other government agencies. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1987. First Thus? Printing. 130, wraps, illus., covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1988. First Thus? Printing. 148, wraps, illus., some wear and soiling to covers. More
London: Routledge, 1989. First? Edition. First? Printing. 227, illus., bibliography, glossary, index, minor wear and soiling to DJ, minor edge soiling, sticker residue on rear DJ. More
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: Greenbelt, Maryland, 2012. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 124 pages. Oversized book, measuring 10 inches by 10 inches. Topics covered include Foreword, Hubble's History, Observatory Design, Operating Hubble, and Hubble News. Also includes A New Class of Extrasolar Planet; Colliding Starclusters in a Nearby Galaxy; The Milky Way's Collision with the Andromeda Galaxy; Ultra-Faint Fossil Galaxies; The Mysterious Dark Core of Abell 520; Quasars in Normal-Looking Galaxies; Characterizing Early Star-Forming Galaxies; and Exploring Lyman-Alpha and Lyman-Break Galaxies. Also includes information on Hubble Support, and Acknowledgments. As Hubble collects more and more data, astronomers also continue to publish results at an accelerated rate, with many of their findings now based upon previously archived data. This past year, Hubble surpassed the 11,000 mark for peer-reviewed scientific papers. This book highlights a few of the many discoveries made with the observatory this past year, as Hubble continues to fashion its legacy as one of the most scientifically successful missions in history. More
Greenbelt, Maryland: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 2009. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 152 pages. Oversized book, measuring 10 inches by 10 inches. Includes Foreword, Hubble's History, Observatory Design, Operating Hubble, Servicing Mission 4 Preparation, Hubble News. Also includes Science: A New Red Spot on Jupiter; Dwarf Bodies in the Solar System; First Visible-Light Image of an Extrasolar Planet; Supernova Remnant SN 1006; Probing the Atmospheres of Exoplanets; Magnetic Filaments in an Active Galaxy; Interacting Galaxies; Dark Matter and Galaxy Life in a Supercluster; Barred Spiral Galaxies and Galactic Evolution; and Searching for Baryonic Matter in Intergalactic Space; Also contains Supporting Hubble: Profiles, and Acknowledgments. Now, nearly 20 years after its first launch, the scale of the Hubble revolution is becoming increasingly apparent: Black holes are common to galaxies; planetary atmospheres have organic chemistry; dark energy seems to behave like Einstein's cosmological constant; galaxies were rapidly born and quickly evolved through collisions and mergers; and stars die in a blaze of glory that is as awesome as it is foreboding. More
Goddard Space Flight Center: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2012. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 154 pages. Oversized book, measuring 10 inches by 10 inches. Topics covered include Foreword, Hubble's History, Observatory Design, Operating Hubble, and Hubble News. Also includes Science--New Pluto Moon Discovered, Finding Planets in Archived Hubble Data, Flaring Red Dwarf Stars; Supersonic Jets from Young Stars; Revisiting Star VI; Hubble's Multi-Cycle Treasury Programs; Hanny's Voorwerp; Investigating a Gamma-Ray Burst; The Brightest Gravitationally Lensed Galaxy; Measuring the Galactic Merger Rate; and Ruling Out One Alternative to Dark Energy. Also includes Hubble Support, and Acknowledgments. In the past year, a significant portion of Hubble's observing time was devoted to three innovative Multi-Cycle Treasury Programs. These large and important observations will populate the Hubble data archive with unparalleled information that astronomers can use for years as they investigate key questions about the history and evolution of the cosmos. More
Greenbelt, MD: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, 2013. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 65, [1] plus covers. Color Illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. This book provides an overview of the historic space telescope with sections that briefly describe its history, design, operations, and cultural impact. This book is a joint projects of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the Space Telescope Institute. The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight center. GSFC is the largest combined organization of scientists and engineers in the United States dedicated to increasing knowledge of the Earth, the Solar System, and the Universe via observations from space. GSFC is a major U.S. laboratory for developing and operating unmanned scientific spacecraft. GSFC manages operations for many NASA and international missions including the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the Explorer program, the Discovery Program, the Earth Observing System (EOS), INTEGRAL, MAVEN, OSIRIS-REx, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), and Swift. More
San Diego, CA: American Astronautical Soc. 1980. First? Edition. First? Printing. 290, wraps, illus., diagrams, index, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
San Diego, CA: American Astronautical Soc. 1980. 290, illus., figures, refs, index, lib stamps (some crossed out in marker), rough spot ins rear bd, bookplate removed ins fr board. More
San Diego, CA: Univelt, Inc., 1996. First Edition. First Paperbk Printing. 332, wraps, illus., index, pencil erasure on title page. More
San Diego, CA: Univelt, Inc., 1996. First Edition. First Paperbk Printing. 314, wraps, illus., index, pencil erasure on title page. More
San Diego, CA: Univelt, Inc., 1997. First Edition. First Printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xii, 469, [1] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. References. Numerical index. Author index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Proceedings of a Symposium of the International Academy of Astronautics held in conjunction with the 48th International Astronautical Federation Congress, October 2-6, 1995, Oslo, Norway. Published for the American Astronautical Society. Published by permission of The International Academy of Astronautics. Volume 93 Science and Technology Series, a Supplement to Advances in the Astronautical Sciences. More
San Diego, CA: Univelt, Inc., 1999. First Edition. First Printing. 400, wraps, illus., index, pencil erasure on title page. More
Washington, DC: NASA, 1997. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 484, illus., graphs, charts, footnotes, chronology, index. More
Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 2013. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 196 p. : Illustrations, black & white. Footnotes. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. After completing his undergraduate degree at Clark University, Thor Hogan worked for two years as a speechwriter and deputy communications director for the Democratic Party in Massachusetts — while going to law school at night. In 1998, Thor moved to Washington, DC to start graduate work at the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at The George Washington University. At the same time, he began an eight-year career as a policy researcher at a series of think tanks — this included half a decade as a project director within the RAND Corporation's Science and Technology Policy Institute. In this capacity, he was the principal investigator on numerous studies conducted for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). More