Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Publishing Co., 1994. Quarto, 106, wraps, profusely illus. (some in color), small tear at base of spine, some soiling to rear cover. 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

New York: Random House, 1973. Book Club Edition. 338, illus., front board weak & strengthened with glue, DJ scuffed, DJ edges worn and rubbed: small edge tears and chips. More

New York: Franklin Watts, 1982. First Printing. 72, profusely illus. (some color), figures, glossary, reading list, index, pencil underlining & some soiling to a few pages rear flyleaf creased, library stamps on rear flyleaf crossed out in marker, boards and spine scuffed and edges worn, library stickers on boards and spine crossed out in marker. Book for young readers. More

Washington, DC: GPO, 1969. 20th Anniversary Edition. Wraps. Oversized, 24, wraps, profusely illus. in color, covers somewhat soiled. More

New York: The Associated Press, 1969. Quarto, 216, profusely illus. in color, index, DJ scuffed and creased: small tears, small pieces missing, larger piece missing at spine. More

Morristown, NJ: Silver Burdett Company, 1981. quarto, 35, profusely illus. in color, appendix, index, library stamps crossed out in marker, boards and spine scuffed & edges worn pencil underlining and notes on several pages, library stickers on rear board crossed out in marker, library call number sticker taped to front board. This book for young readers describes some of the problems that hadto be overcome before the Apollo landings on the moon could take place, anddiscusses possible future developments. More

New York: Time, Inc., 1970. 28 cm, 192, illus. (some color), color map, index, illustrated boards, ink note on bottom edge. More

New York: Dutton, 2006. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 11.875 inches by 11.875 inches. xi, [1], 196 pages. Illustrations (many in color). Several fold-out illustrations. Inscribed on the title page. Inscription reads: For Bill-- Mars Rocks! Jim Bell Foreword by Bill Nye. Appendix. Additional Resources. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. Jim Bell is a planetary scientist, educator, author, public speaker, and President of The Planetary Society. He is heavily involved in NASA solar system exploration missions like those of the Mars rovers Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity. In 2011 he received the Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication from the American Astronomical Society. He is an avid writer for space-related topics. His popular science and space photography books include Postcards from Mars, Mars 3-D, Moon 3-D, The Space Book and most recently, The Interstellar Age . Jim is a Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University and is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University. More

Phoenix: White Stag Publishing LLC, 2023. First Edition [stated] Presumed first printing. Trade paperback. xi, [1], 83, [1] pages. Illustrations. Decorative front cover. The author has inscribed the half-title page. The inscription reads: "To Dian, Love that you are teaching & loving your hubby - Wishing you Strange encounters of the good & kind. John 2024 Tacoma ". John-Michael Peter Bloomquist is a poet, artist, and gift economist living in DC with his wife, baby son, and the babcia in a house run by their needy black cat, Sir Zbigniew Herbert the IX. He is a former Peace Corps volunteer and a current volunteer for NASA. While a volunteer writing instructor in the Monroe County Jail, he co-edited Poems from the Jail Dorm (Monster House Press, 2016), an anthology of incarcerated men's poetry. He has been published in Nimrod, Heavy Feather Review, Third Coast, among others, and has been anthologized in And Blue Will Rise Over Yellow: An International Poetry Anthology for Ukraine (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2023). Rocket Celestial is his first book. The contents include Mercury, The Lyre-Giver; Venus, The Evil Twin; The Moon & Mars, The Midwife & the Peace Maker; Jupiter, The Lawgiver; Saturn, The Reaper; Uranus, The Cartographer; Nepture, and The Oceanographer. The Cast of Characters include Father Nescio, Sergei Korolev, Werhner von Braun, The Hypatia Stone, and The Planets. More

New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1954. Cardinal Edition [stated]. First Cardinal printing[stated]. Mass market paperback. xi, [3], 210 pages. Illustrations (List of plates--some with color). Maps. Illustrated front cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some page discoloration noted. Some page edge fragility. Preface to the Pocket Book Edition. Errata at bottom of contents page. Index. 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. Clarke co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely regarded as one of the most influential films of all time. He was a science fiction writer, an avid popularizer of space travel, and a futurist of distinguished ability. He wrote many books and many essays. 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, he joined the British Interplanetary Society (BIS). In 1945, he proposed a satellite communication system using geostationary orbits. He was the chairman of the BIS from 1946 to 1947 and again in 1951–1953. Clarke augmented his popularity in the 1980s, as the host of television shows such as Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World. More

New York: Grove Press, 1988. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 288, illus., glossary, appendix, index, lib stamps ins rear flylf & to fore-edge crossed out in marker, wrinkling to several pages (no pages are stuck together), DJ in plastic sleeve, sticker inside plastic sleeve over front DJ flap, library stickers on plastic sleeve ( some crossed out in marker). The author was an astronaut; in this book, he covers the early days of Project Mercury to the lunar landings. He also discusses the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. More

New York: Grove Press, 1988. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 288, [4] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Acronyms and key terms. Glossary. Spaceflight Log. Index. Name of previous owner in ink on half title page. The former astronaut traces America's ascent into space and the history of NASA, from the first faltering steps in 1960, to humankind's first small step on the moon's surface, to the 1986 Challenger tragedy. Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930) (major general, USAF) is an American former astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew into space twice. His first spaceflight was on Gemini 10, in which he and Command Pilot John Young performed orbital rendezvous with two different spacecraft and undertook two extravehicular activities (EVAs, also known as spacewalks). His second spaceflight was as the Command Module Pilot for Apollo 11. While he stayed in orbit around the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left in the Apollo Lunar Module to make the first crewed landing on its surface. He is one of 24 people to have flown to the Moon. Collins was the seventeenth American in space, the fourth person (and third American) to perform a spacewalk, and the first person to have performed more than one spacewalk. More