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Rocket Boys
by Homer Hickam
Rocket Boys (also known as October Sky) is the first memoir in a series of three, by Homer Hickam, Jr. It is a story of growing up in a mining town, and a boy's pursuit of amateur rocketry in a pure company mining town. It won the W.D. Weatherford Award in 1998, the year of its release. Today, it is one of the most often picked community/library reads in the United States. It is also studied in many school systems around the world.
A Brief History Of Time
by Stephen W Hawking
A Brief History of Time is a popular science book written by Stephen Hawking and first published by the Bantam Dell Publishing Group in 1988. It became a best-seller and has sold more than 9 million copies. It was also on the London Sunday Times best-seller list for more than four years. There is also a documentary by the same name, directed by Errol Morris and released in 1991. Unlike the book, the documentary is primarily a biography of Stephen Hawking.
Rocket Boys
by Homer H, Jr Hickam
Rocket Boys (also known as October Sky) is the first memoir in a series of three, by Homer Hickam, Jr. It is a story of growing up in a mining town, and a boy's pursuit of amateur rocketry in a pure company mining town. It won the W.D. Weatherford Award in 1998, the year of its release. Today, it is one of the most often picked community/library reads in the United States. It is also studied in many school systems around the world.
John Glenn
by John Glenn
John Glenn has spent most of his life in public service, as a distinguished U.S. Senator and a veteran of twenty-three years in the Marine corps, during which time he was awarded numerous medals for his achievements, as well as the NASA Distinguished Service medal and the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. He and his wife of fifty-six years, Annie, have two grown children and two grandchildren.Nick Taylor is the author of seven nonfiction books and collaborated with John Glenn on his memoir. He lives in...
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Cosmos
by Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan was the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University; Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; and the cofounder and President of the Planetary Society, the largest space-interest group in the world. For the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, he was an adviser on the Mariner, Voyager, and Viking unmanned space missions, and he briefed...
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Space Books & Ephemera
Off the Planet -- Inscribed By Author -- Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station Mir
by Linenger, Jerry M
Voyager Bulletin: Mission Status Report No. 72 (November 4, 1985)
by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA: NASA and JPL, 1985. Book. As New. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A left-folded, high-quality newsletter printed on glossy paper, measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing four pages including front and rear covers. Topics of this issue: Uranus Encounter Begins: Observatory Phase; Uranus Science Experiments (Imaging and Photopolarimetry). With diagrams. In pristine condition..
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$15.00
The New High-ground: Systems and Weapons of Space Age War
by Thomas Karas
London, U.K.: New English Library, 1984 225 pages. Excellent condition. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
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A$30.00
Mars Beckons: The Mysteries, The Challenges, The Expectations,
by John Noble Wilford
New.
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£20.38
Thermodynamic Properties and Theoretical Rocket Performance of Hydrogen to 100 000 K and 1.01325 X 108 N/m²
by Patch, R. W.; NASA Lewis Resrarch Center
Washington, D. C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1971. Softcover. Issued as NASA SP-3069. Blue and white wraps, stapled. Text accimpanied by charts, tables, etc. ; 8" x 10-1/4"; 111 pp; Mild cover wear, address label to rear cover and ownership stamp to front cover from corporate library, otherwise clean and unmarked. .
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$25.00
Man's Conquest of Space
by Shelton, William R
Washington, DC: National Audubon Society, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Very Good; see scans and description. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1968. William R. Shelton's "Man's Conquest of Space". Quarto, illustrated jacket, black cloth boards with silver spine imprinting, photo-illustrated endpapers, 200 pp. Very Good; jacket shows top edge creasing on a small scale, rubbing, and soil at both covers; book shows small scale...
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$25.00
Space Engineering Proceedings Of The Second International Conference
by Partel, G . A
D. Reidel. Good with no dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 9027701369 . Exlibrary with usual library markings. Tape around spine. Some cover stains. Some cover wear.; 728 pages .
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$35.00
Universe: The Definitive Visual Guide (Astronomy)
by Robert Dinwiddie
DK, 2007-09-05. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 10x9x1. Appears to have hardly been read. Weight >2kg so will be sent using courier with dispatch within 24 hrs (Mon-Fri).
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£15.00
Comet
by Sagan, Carl; Druyan, Ann
New York: Random House, 1985. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. New York: Random House, 1985. First Edition and First Printing. Quarto, illustrated jacket, gilt & copper spine imprinting, illustrated endpapers, 398 pp. Near Fine book with a corner just touched ina Near Fine jacket with one 6 mm closed tear, and not much else in either case keeping these from Fine. See scans. The text-and-graphics-rich exposition on everything about...
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$28.00
Analysis of Apollo 10 Photography and Visual Observations Nasa SP-232
by National Aeronautics Space Administration Nasa
National Aeronautics Space Administration NASA. Very Good. 1971. First Edition. Wraps. 1971. Wraps ( softcover ) 226 pages. Some wear to cover, else Very Good condition. NASA. No Maps. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 226 pages .
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$75.00
A Brief History of Time
by Stephen W Hawking
BANTAM, 1988-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Same ISBN but 1990 reprint. Cover differs to stock image; actual book shown. Top page edges dusty/marked. Same day dispatch (Mon- Fri) from the UK if ordered by 1pm.
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£3.00
Conquest of the Moon
by Braun, Wernher Von, Fred L. Whipple & Willy Ley
Newy: Viking Press. Very Good- in Fine dust jacket. 1953. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Large format hardcover with dustjacket, the book has some soiling to the green cloth covers and mild rubbing at the corners, the binding is tight and the contents are fine, the jacket is in excellent condition with no remarkable flaws but PLEASE NOTE that it is a facscimile jacket, NOT the original, features illustrations by Chesley Bonestell and others, one of the classics of early space travel literature .
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$189.00
COMING OF AGE IN THE MILKY WAY
by FERRIS, Timothy
NY: Morrow, 1988. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Morrow. HARDCOVER. 1988, FIRST EDITION, THIRD Printing. AS NEW, bound in blue on blue with gold titles in black printed dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Illustrated. 496 pages. Cover design by David Gatti. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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$50.00
Other Worlds : Space, Superspace and the Quantum Universe
by Paul Davies
Touchstone, 1982. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$6.73
History Of Rocketry And Astronautics Volume 23 Proceedings Of The 28th And 29th History Symposia
by Elder, Donald C
American Astronautical Society. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 087703477X . Exlibrary with usual library markings. Proceedings of the 28th and 29th History Symposia; 552 pages .
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$45.00
Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use
by William H. Allen (Editor)
Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1965. Hardcover. Ex-Library. 1965 First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. No DJ. Ex-Library with standard markings. Prominent wearing visible on covers. 314p.
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$20.95
Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon
by Aldrin, Buzz
Paperback. Very Good.
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£10.39
Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon
by Aldrin, Buzz; Abraham, Ken
Crown Archetype, 2009-06-23T00:00:01Z. hardcover. UsedGood. 104x24x152. Good condition.No marking/highlighting.Cover and pages may show some wear.Not Satisfied? Contact us to get a refund.
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$6.86
TOPS: Toward Other Planetary Systems A Report
by Solar System Exploration Division, NASA & Bernard F. Burke (editor)
Washington, D. C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Fine+. (1992). Hardcover. Appears to be new. No ownership or other marks. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 120 pages .
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$15.00
Men From Earth (Signed Easton Press)
by Buzz Aldrin
Easton Press, 1997. Limited Edition. Leather Bound. Fine. 0x0x0. Signed. EASTON PRESS EDITION SIGNED BY APOLLO 11 ASTRONAUT BUZZ ALDRIN. Ironclad Easton Certificate of Authenticity included. This is #1342 of only 3000 printed. Condition is near-fine insdie and out; the book is unread. Expedited shipping is welcome; international please request a shipping quote prior to purchase. Signed by author.
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$525.00
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The Air and Space Sale. Wednesday September 27, 2017. [sale 24253]
by Bonhams New York. (firm)
Aviation (lots 1-16); Wright Brothers (17-39); Rocketry & Unmanned Exploration (40-51); Soviet & Russian Hardware, Gear, & Models (52-67); American Gear, Hardware & Models(68-81); Project Mercury (82-95); Project Gemini (96-115); Apollo Program through Apollo 10 (116-127); Apollo 11 (128-146); Apollo 12-17 (147-206); ShuttleMissions (207-213). Auction catalog: 75 pages, index, color illus.; 26.5 cm. Color pictorial paper covers; VG+. Stock#ofc0199.
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$15.00
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys
by COLLINS, Michael
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/fine. Octavo, 478pp., plus Appendix. Stated first printing. A very good copy in the publisher's blue cloth, with some foxing to the top edge; clean and crisp internally. In a fine dust jacket. This copy SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Collins on the front free endpaper: "To Fred; All the best from Michael Collins." Collins, who began his astronaut career as one of "the Fourteen," the third group of NASA astronauts, is best known...
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$2000.00
... The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
by Walter A. McDougall
Basic Books, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1985. Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition.
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$30.00
Unveiling the Edge of Time : Black Holes, White Holes, Worm Holes
by John Gribbin
Crown Publishing Group, The, 1994. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$6.93
Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space
by Cadbury, Deborah
Perennial, 2007. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 400 pages. 7.75x5.25x1.25 inches.
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£16.85
Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury To Apollo 13 and Beyond
by Kranz, Gene
This is the history NASA space missions from its inception through the missions to the moon, written by the former director of NASA. There is a former owner's inscription inside.
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$12.50
