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Stapled Card Covers. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 60 pages, 190g, Staples soft card covers, FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs. The second volume in a publication designed for modellers and historians alike.

Stapled Card Covers. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 60 pages, 185g. Stapled soft card covers As NEW. Illustrated with b/w and some colour photographs.

Stapled Card Covers. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 60 pages, 185g. Stapled soft card covers As NEW. Illustrated with b/w and some colour photographs.

Stapled Card Covers. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 60 pages, 185g. Stapled soft card covers FINE. Illustrated with b/w and some colour photographs.

Stapled Card Covers. Condition: Near MINT. 1st Edition. 60 pages, 185g. Stapled card covers Near MINT. Illustrated with b/w and some colour photographs.

Stapled Card Covers. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 60 pages, 185g. Stapled soft card covers As NEW. Illustrated with b/w and some colour photographs.

Stapled Card Covers. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 60 pages, 185g. Stapled soft card covers As NEW. Illustrated with b/w and some colour photographs.

cloth. small 8vo. cloth. 129 pages. First edition. Boards lightly bowed. Some soiling and writing in ink / pencil on preliminary pages. Very scarce.

Trade paperback. Condition: Good. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 100 pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Appendices. Cover has some wear and soiling. Contents cover the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz, Space Shuttle, and International Space Station programs. This monograph is an updating of U.S> Human spaceflight: A Record of Achievement 1961-1998 (Monograph in Aerospace History No. 9, July 1998), compiled by Judith A Rumerman. It extends the timeframe covered through the end of calendar year 2006. It also includes additional information, such as more detailed crew and mission descriptions, more bibliographic information, shuttle payload information, and useful Web sites. It also includes a new section on the International Space Station, which did not physically exist when the previous monograph was prepared and published. In addition, with Chris Gamble's guidance, Gabriel Okolski pulled together a new set of photos to illustrate this updated monograph. More than 45 years after the Mercury astronauts made their first brief forays into the new ocean of space, Earth orbit has become a busy arena of human activity. In that time, more than 300 people have traveled into orbit on U.S. spacecraft. The first astronauts went along stuffed into capsules barely large enough for their bodies, eating squeezetube food and peering out at Earth through tiny portholes. Their flights lasted only a matter of hours. Today, we routinely launch seven people at a time to spend a week living, working, and exploring aboard the Space Shuttle. In addition to regular launches, crew members from various nations keep a permanent human presence aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The history of spaceflight has seen not only an increase in the numbers of people traveling into orbit, but also marked improvements in their vehicles. Each successive spacecraft, from Mercury through Apollo and the Space Shuttle, has been larger, more comfortable, and more capable. Scientists working inside the Shuttle's Spacelab have many of the comforts of a laboratory on Earth, none of which were available when human spaceflight first began. Some projects, like Apollo, produced stunning firsts or explored new territory. Others notably, Skylab and the Space Shuttle advanced our capabilities by extending the range and sophistication of human operations in space. Both kinds of activity are vital to establishing a permanent human presence off Earth. Almost 50 years after the dawn of the age of spaceflight,we are learning not just to travel into space, but also to live and stay there. That challenge ensures that the decades to come will be just as exciting as the past decades have been. Human spaceflight (also referred to as manned spaceflight or crewed spaceflight) is spaceflight with a crew or passengers aboard a spacecraft, often with the spacecraft being operated directly by the onboard human crew. Spacecraft can also be remotely operated from ground stations on Earth, or autonomously, without any direct human involvement. People trained for spaceflight are called astronauts (American or other), cosmonauts (Russian), or taikonauts (Chinese); and non-professionals are referred to as spaceflight participants or spacefarers. The first human in space was Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who launched on 12 April 1961 as part of the Soviet Union's Vostok program. This was towards the beginning of the Space Race. On 5 May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space, as part of Project Mercury. Humans traveled to the Moon nine times between 1968 and 1972 as part of the United States' Apollo program, and have had a continuous presence in space for 21 years and 296 days on the International Space Station (ISS). On 15 October 2003, the first Chinese taikonaut, Yang Liwei, went to space as part of Shenzhou 5, the first Chinese human spaceflight. As of 2021, humans have not traveled beyond low Earth orbit since the Apollo 17 lunar mission in December 1972. Currently, the United States, Russia, and China are the only countries with public or commercial human spaceflight-capable programs. Non-governmental spaceflight companies have been working to develop human space programs of their own, e.g. for space tourism or commercial in-space research. The first private human spaceflight launch was a suborbital flight on SpaceShipOne on June 21, 2004. The first commercial orbital crew launch was by SpaceX in May 2020, transporting NASA astronauts to the ISS under United States government contract. Presumed First Edition, First printing of this updated version.

Trade paperback. Condition: Good. 100 pages. Illustrations. Appendix A: Shuttle Main Payloads. Appendix B: Astronauts Past and Present. Appendix C: Acronyms. This is Monographs in Aerospace History No. 41. Front cover stained. This monograph is an updating of U.S. Human Spaceflight: A Record of Achievement, 1961-1998 (Monograph in Aerospace History No. 9, July 1998), compiled by Judith A. Rumerman. It extends the timeframe covered through the end of calendar year 2006. It also includes additional information, such as more detailed crew and mission descriptions, more bibliographic information, Shuttle payload information, and useful Web sites. It also includes a new section on the International Space Station, which did not physically exist when the previous monograph was prepared and published. In addition,with Chris Gamble's guidance,Gabriel Okolski pulled together a new set of photos to illustrate this updated monograph. The history of spaceflight has seen not only an increase in the numbers of people traveling into orbit, but also marked improvements in their vehicles. Each successive spacecraft, from Mercury through Apollo and the Space Shuttle, has been larger, more comfortable, and more capable. Scientists working inside the Shuttle's Spacelab have many of the comforts of a laboratory on Earth, none of which were available when human spaceflight first began. Some projects, like Apollo, produced stunning firsts or explored new territory. Othersâ" notably,Skylab and the Space Shuttleâ"advanced our capabilities by extending the range and sophistication of human operations in space. Both kinds of activity are vital to establishing a permanent human presence off Earth. Almost 50 years after the dawn of the age of spaceflight,we are learning not just to travel into space,but also to live and stay there. That challenge ensures that the decades to come will be just as exciting as the past decades have been. Revised Edition. Presumed first edition thus.

Wraps. Condition: Very good. Revised Edition, First printing thus. 100 pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Appendices. Acronyms. This is Monographs in Aerospace History No. 41. More than 45 years after the Mercury astronauts made their first brief forays into the new ocean of space, Earth orbit has become a busy arena of human activity. In that time, more than 300 people have traveled into orbit on U.S. spacecraft. The first astronauts went along stuffed into capsules barely large enough for their bodies, eating squeezetube food and peering out at Earth through tiny portholes. Their flights lasted only a matter of hours. Today, we routinely launch seven people at a time to spend a week living, working, and exploring aboard the Space Shuttle. The history of spaceflight has seen not only an increase in the numbers of people traveling into orbit, but also marked improvements in their vehicles. Each successive spacecraft, from Mercury through Apollo and the Space Shuttle, has been larger, more comfortable, and more capable. This monograph is an updating of U.S. Human Spaceflight: A Record of Achievement, 1961-1998 (Monograph in Aerospace History No. 9, July 1998), compiled by Judith A. Rumerman. It extends the timeframe covered through the end of calendar year 2006. It also includes additional information, such as more detailed crew and mission descriptions, more bibliographic information, Shuttle payload information, and useful Web sites. It also includes a new section on the International Space Station, which did not physically exist when the previous monograph was prepared and published. In addition,with Chris Gamble's guidance,Gabriel Okolski pulled together a new set of photos to illustrate this updated monograph. Almost 50 years after the dawn of the age of spaceflight,we are learning not just to travel into space,but also to live and stay there. That challenge ensures that the decades to come will be just as exciting as the past decades have been.

First edition, 4to, [4], 326pp., original cloth.

second edition inscribed by compiler [2 vols.bound as 1] 53pp+blanks+27pp VG (fawn cloth,mod.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to extrems.owner's inscr.to ffep,sl.paper separation at ep gutters,compiler's inscr.to blank prelim.dated August 1899,aeg sl.rubbed).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First Separate Edition. New York: The New York Public Library, 1922. This is the original 1922 edition -- NOT print on demand edition or modern reprint.Very Good condition. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. Offprint from THE BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. Bound in the original wraps, printed in black. 7" wide by 10" tall. First Separate Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 41 pages. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.