Space Exploration from Andrew Barnes Booksellers

Bloomington: Indiana U. P., 2008. reprint. As New. octavo. dust jacket xii + 393pp., frontis., b/w plates, notes, appends., bibliog., Selected as one of NASA's original Seven Mercury Astronauts, Gus Grissom would go on to become the first man to fly in space twice and later give his life to the NASA space program. This book unearths… Read more about this item

Canberra: The Author, 2012. 1st edition. Very Nice Copy. quarto. stiff wrappers x + 435pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., appends., bibliog., index, Published locally. Well-researched & illustrated by a local author. Very scarce

Cambridge (Mass): MIT Press, 2014. 1st edition. Very Nice Copy. quarto. dust jacket 130pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., bibliog., Primed by science fiction, magazine articles, and appearances by Wernher von Braun on the ÒTomorrowlandÓ segments of the Disneyland prime time television show, Americans were a receptive audience for NASA's pioneering Òbrand journalism.Ó Authors describe sophisticated… Read more about this item

Minneapolis: Zenith Press, 2011. 1st edition. As New. quarto. dust jacket 160pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., appendix, index, Years ago, Burt Rutan told a reporter for Popular Mechanics, ÒIf we make a courageous decision like the goal and program we kicked off for Apollo in 1961, we will see our children or grandchildren in outposts… Read more about this item

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. 1st edition. As New. octavo. dust jacket xvi + 464pp., b/w plates, text ills., sources, index, The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest man-made structure to orbit Earth and has been conducting research for close to a decade and a half. Yet it is only the latest in a long… Read more about this item

Washington: NASA, 2008. 1st edition. As New. octavo. dust jacket xii + 329pp., colour & b/w plates, "Reaching for the unknown, making our lives bigger and our horizons broader, achieving things never before possible are the heart and soul of what we do at NASA. By pushing beyond the future, by setting for ourselves seemingly impossible challenges,… Read more about this item

Minneapolis: Greenwich Workshop Press, 1998. 1st edition. As New. quarto. dust jacket 176pp., colour plates, July 20, 1969, marked one of the climactic moments in our history? The day Apollo 11 landed on the moon. But it is only one piece of a magnificent story. This book, by the acclaimed Andrew Chaikin recounts space history from the… Read more about this item

Cape Canaveral: The Author, 2010. 3rd edition. As New. quarto. laminated boards viii + 513pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., diags., appends., index, This 80 year history chronicles the development of reusable lifting-reentry spacecraft. From the early theoretical works of Eugen Sanger in Germany in the 1920s, through the Cold War developments in the US and… Read more about this item

Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2012. 2nd edition. As New. octavo. stiff wrappers 343pp., b/w plates, text ills., bibliog., index, First book to cover specifically the history of the space shuttle Discovery, the most storied orbiter in the fleet. Written with a minimum of technical jargon, it puts the reader on Discovery's flight deck during some of the… Read more about this item

Washington: NASA, 1997. 1st edition. As New. quarto. stiff wrappers 157pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., appends., index, ÔA good look at what is involved in sending a large spacecraft to the outer solar system. Join us and share in the excitement of this extended voyage of discovery! One of the first things you will learn… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014. 1st edition. Very Nice Copy. octavo. dust jacket xxiii + 374pp., b/w plates, notes, sources, index, Presentation copy with an interesting inscription signed by Lynn Sherr on the title-page. Also signed by ÔBearÕ Ride (Karen, SallyÕs sister) & Tam OÕShaughnessy (Sally RideÕs partner). Unique copy

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013. 1st edition. As New. octavo. dust jacket xxiv + 427pp., b/w plates, sources, index, HumanityÕs first reusable spacecraft and the most complex machine ever built, NASAÕs Space Shuttle debuted with great promise and as a dependable source of wonder and national pride. But with the Challenger catastrophe in 1986, the whole… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Studio, 2009. 1st edition. As New. oblong quarto. dust jacket 201pp., colour & b/w plates, Presentation copy signed by both Andrew Chaikin & Victoria Kohl on the title-page

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. 1st edition. As New. octavo. dust jacket xxv + 450pp., b/w plates, sources, index, With the Soviet Union's launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into space. The X-15 Rocket Plane tells the enthralling yet little-known story… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014. 1st edition. Very Nice Copy. octavo. dust jacket xxiii + 374pp., b/w plates, notes, sources, index, OwnerÕs ownership label on front end paper o/w a very nice copy

Washington: NASA, 1983. 1st edition. As New. octavo. laminated boards xiii + 449pp., colour frontis., colour & b/w plates, text ills., notes, appends., index, With the Soviet Union's launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into space. The X-15 Rocket Plane tells the… Read more about this item

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015. 1st edition. Very Nice Copy. quarto. laminated boards x + 435pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., appends., bibliog., index, On April 12, 1961, the USSR launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on a one-orbit flight, making him the first human in space. 3 weeks later, American astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr.… Read more about this item

Minneapolis: Zenith Press, 2008. 1st edition. Very Nice Copy. quarto. dust jacket 160pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., appends., bibliog., index, In April of 2003, a company called Scaled Composites lifted the veil of secrecy from a long-time research program & introduced SpaceShipOne to the world. And the age of commercial space travel took off; … Read more about this item

Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2008. 1st edition. As New. octavo. dust jacket xix + 460pp., b/w plates, notes, bibliog., index, ÔOne of the most elusive and controversial figures in NASAÕs history, George W. S. Abbey was called Òthe Dark Lord,Ó Òthe Godfather,Ó and ÒUNOÓÑshort for unidentified NASA official. He was said to be secretive, despotic, a Space… Read more about this item

Washington: NASA, 1998. 1st edition. Very Nice Copy. quarto. stiff wrappers 219pp., colour & b/w plates, appends., index, NASA History series. NASA SP-4312. Well-illustrated account. Inc. an appendices inc. a list of Goddard Launches