Into the Thermosphere: The Atmosphere Explorers. NASA SP-490
Washington, DC: GPO, 1987. Quarto, 172, illus. (some color), figures, appendices, bibliography, library stamps, barcode, & due slip, boards scuffed & edges worn. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1987. Quarto, 172, illus. (some color), figures, appendices, bibliography, library stamps, barcode, & due slip, boards scuffed & edges worn. More
Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, 1987. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Quarto,. xii, 172 pages. Illustrations (some color). Figures. Appendices. Bibliography. Eric Burgess (1920 – March 2005) was an English consultant, lecturer and journalist, who wrote about the Pioneer program of space missions since the first tests in 1957. He was the science correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor in the period of many of the planetary probe launches, and was often the senior science reporter present at many of those events. Burgess is credited with the original idea that the Pioneer probes should carry a message for extraterrestrial intelligences. He approached Carl Sagan about his idea, which eventually resulted in the Pioneer plaque. Burgess was a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and British Interplanetary Society, and an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Burgess was a charter members of the British Interplanetary Society. More
New York: Random House, 1986. Second Printing. Hardcover. xxi, [5] , 401, [5] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Glossary. Notes. Sources. Index. DJ has minor wear and soiling and front flap creased. Jump to search William E. Burrows is an American author and journalism professor emeritus. He worked as a reporter for newspapers such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, and The Wall Street Journal. Burrows specializes in space and national security issues; he published Deep Black, a seminal work on reconnaissance and espionage in 1986. Burrows was the only non-scientist on the National Research Council's Near-Earth Object Survey and Detection Panel. In recognition of his distinguished career and expertise, a Main Belt asteroid has been named after him, and he is a recipient of the American Astronautical Society John F. Kennedy Astronautics Award, among other honors. More
New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition. First Printing. 723, illus., notes, sources, index, rear DJ flap creased. More
New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xviii, 723, [9] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Sources. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Publisher's ephemera laid in. This comprehensive account of the space age is based on 175 interviews with Russian and American scientists and engineers, on archival documents, and on nearly three decades of reporting on aviation and space. William E. Burrows is an American author and journalism professor emeritus. He is also Director Emeritus of the Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program at New York University. He is the author of twelve books and numerous articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Richmond Times-Dispatch, Foreign Affairs, Harvard Magazine, Harper's and other publications. Burrows was the only non-scientist on the National Research Council's Near-Earth Object Survey and Detection Panel. In recognition of his distinguished career and expertise, a Main Belt asteroid has been named after him, and he is a recipient of the American Astronautical Society John F. Kennedy Astronautics Award, among other honors. More
Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Office, 1997. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xxxiv, 321, [1] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Tables. Reading list. Chronology. Index. Andrew J. Butrica, a graduate of the doctoral program in the history of science and technology at Iowa State University, is a research historian and author of numerous articles and papers on the history of electricity and electrical engineering in the United States and France and the history of science and technology in nineteenth-century France. He is the author of a corporate history, Out of Thin Air: A History of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., 1940-1990, published by Praeger in 1990, and a co-editor of The Papers of Thomas Edison: Vol. I: The Making of an Inventor, 1847-1873, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1989. Prior to writing this history of planetary radar astronomy, Dr. Butrica was a research fellow with the Center for Research in the History of Science and Technology, Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie (La Villette), Paris. More
London: Usborne Publishing Ltd., 1985. 48, profusely illus. in color, chronology, glossary, index. Book for young readers. More
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2006. First U.S. Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xii, 370, [2] pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Ink marks and highlighting noted. Deborah Cadbury is a British author, historian and television producer with the BBC. She has won many international awards for her documentaries including an Emmy Award. Cadbury joined the BBC in 1978 as a trainee.[citation needed] She went on to produce films for the BBC's Horizon strand and won awards for her investigations. Her Horizon film, Assault on the Male, launched a worldwide scientific research campaign into environmental oestrogens, hormone-mimicking chemicals potentially impacting human health, and led to her book, The Feminization of Nature. She moved into history programming in 2003 as the series producer of the BAFTA-nominated drama documentary series, Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. The series was notable for combining live action with CGI, created by Gareth Edwards, and was described as "a ground breaking achievement" by the Times. In 2005 she produced the docudrama series, Space Race, the BBC's first co-production between Russia and the United States with unique access to the Russian side of the story. As an executive producer, Cadbury continued her investigation of Cold War espionage in her BBC series Nuclear Secrets, which explored the race for supremacy through pivotal personal stories of such nuclear scientists as J. Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, and Andrei Sakharov. More
New York: American Astronautical Soc. 1954. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. 33 pages, wraps, illus., some wear and soiling to covers, some damp stains at bottom edge. More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1957. Second Printing. 288, illus., index, bot marg of all pgs wrinkled from water, but no pgs stuck, discolor ins bds, DJ worn: tears, creases, pcs missg. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1954. First Edition. 212, illus., index, boards scuffed and scratched. 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
Toulouse, France: CEPADUES-EDITIONS, 1984. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Text in French, English. 1167 p. 25 cm. Illustrations. References. More
Toulouse, France: Cepadues-Editions, 1989. 520, illus., figures, tables, references, bibliography, slight wear at spine. More
Place_Pub: Philadelphia, PA: Academy/Pol & Social Science, 1970. 247, wraps, a few pages soiled, covers somewhat worn, creased, and discolored. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1964. First American Edition. First? Printing. 230, illus., diagrams, index, bibliography, usual library markings, DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ taped to boards. More
Place_Pub: Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Civil Air Patrol, c. 1980. Approx. 200, wraps, 3-hole punched, illus. (some in color), covers somewhat worn and soiled, writing on edges. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1965. First Printing. 241, figures, appendix, references, some wear to top and bottom edges of DJ. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Revised Edition. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 129, [1] pages. Illustrations (plates and figures). Index. Ink note on fep. Scuff inside front cover. Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. Clarke was a science writer, who was both an avid popularizer of space travel and a futurist of uncanny ability. On these subjects he wrote over a dozen books and many essays, which appeared in various popular magazines. In 1961 he was awarded the Kalinga Prize, an award which is given by UNESCO for popularizing science. Clarke was a lifelong proponent of space travel. In 1934, while still a teenager, he joined the British Interplanetary Society. In 1945, he proposed a satellite communication system. He was the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society from 1946–47 and again in 1951–53. He was knighted in 1998 and was awarded Sri Lanka's highest civil honor, Sri Lankabhimanya, in 2005. More
New York: Harper & Row, [c1962]. First Edition. 22 cm, 234, illus., front DJ flap price clipped, pencil erasure on front endpaper, DJ worn with edge tear. More
New York: World Almanac, 1988. First Printing. 22 cm, 208, notes, biblio, index, some DJ wear/soiling, DJ flap slightly creased, corners slightly bumped, endpapers & edges sl soiled. More
New York: World Almanac, 1988. First Printing. 22 cm, 208, notes, bibliography, index, DJ in plastic sleeve. More
Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1969. presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 27 cm. [6], 26 pages. Wraps. Illustrations. This is one of the America in Space: The First Decade series. William Roger Corliss (August 28, 1926 – July 8, 2011) was an American physicist and writer who was known for his interest in collecting data regarding anomalous phenomena. Arthur C. Clarke described him as "Fort's latter-day - and much more scientific - successor." Starting in 1974, Corliss published a number of works in the "Sourcebook Project". Each volume was devoted to a scientific field (archeology, astronomy, geology, et cetera) and featured articles culled almost exclusively from scientific journals. Corliss was inspired by Charles Fort, who earlier also collected reports of unusual phenomena. Many of the articles in Corliss's works were mentioned in Charles Fort's works. Unlike Fort, known for his idiosyncratic writing style, Corliss initially offered little in the way of his own opinions or editorial comments, preferring to let the articles speak for themselves. Corliss wrote many other books and articles, notably including 13 educational books about astronomy, outer space and space travel for NASA and a similar number for the Atomic Energy Commission and the National Science Foundation. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. First Edition. First? Printing. 150, illus., index, front DJ flap price clipped, usual library marking, many library stamps, DJ in plastic sleeve. More
New York: Random House, 1965. 79, profusely illus., index, inside hinges repaired with masking tape, library stamps, library pocket partially removed. More