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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. xviii + 478 pp. Ex-library. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Fine condition hard cover book with Near Fine condition dust jacket. Slightest bumping to spine edges. Slightest smudging to text block edges. Dust Jacket has some very slight shelf wear and bumping. Dust jacket protected by mylar. Dust jacket unclipped, unless described as such. All of our books are individually inspected and described. Never X-library unless specifically described as such.…

Condition: Good. Good condition.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good+.

Condition: Good. illustrated edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Presumed first edition/first printing. xiii, 194 p. Illustrations. Notes. References. Name Index. Contributors include James Van Allen, Robert Jastrow, and Richard Hallion. In orde to assess accomplishments in Space Science, and future challenges, the National Air and Space Museum invited a group of distinguished scholars to contribute to this volume. Good in good dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. DJ has some wear and soiling, edge tears and chips. Some ink marks noted.…

60pp. Lge.4to. Original wrappers in pamphlet form. A very good copy. Smithsonian Studies in Air and Space: No.3.

Black cloth with gilt to spine, 194pp illus, FINE, d/w NEAR FINE with v sl wear & tears at upper extremities.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. A crisp, clean, tightly bound hardcover copy appearing unread, presenting light shelf wear only. ; 100 X 10 X 150 millimeters; 224 pages.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First. In the years following the Wright Brothers' achievement of powered flight, the major contributors to aerodynamic theory were made by german scientists. Fine copy in brodart cover with pencil marks and gum residue on ffep, and fine DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Second printing [stated]. xviii, 478 pages. Illustrations. Appendixes: The Space Telescope. Short essay on sources. Notes. Index. Format is approximately 7 inches by 10.25 inches. DJ is present. Robert W. Smith is a scholar of history and the classics at the University of Alberta, and he directed the Science, Technology and Society Program in the Faculty of Arts. He researches the history of big science, especially U.S. technology and the history of spaceflight. He wrote The Space Telescope: A Study of NASA, Science, Technology and Politics and he co-edited Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years After the Soviet Satellite. He served as the Walter Hines Page Fellow at the National Humanities Center in 199394. He held the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the U.S. National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution during the academic year 200607. He is interested in the technology and politics of the James Webb Space Telescope. Robert Smith's The Space Telescope sets the fascinating and disturbing history of this massive venture within the context of 'Big Science'. Launched at a cost of no more than $2 billion, the Space Telescope turned out to be seriously flawed by imperfections in the construction of its lenses and by solar panels that caused it to shudder when moving from daylight to darkness. Smith analyses how the processes of Big Science, especially those involving the government's funding process for large-scale projects, contributed to those failures. He reveals the astonishingly complex interactions that took place among the scientific community, government and industry and describes the great range of personalities and forces - scientific, technical, political, social, institutional and economic - that played roles in the Space Telescope's history. Dennis M. Arnold (Jacket Design) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xviii, 478 pages. Illustrations. Appendixes: The Space Telescope. Short essay on sources. Notes. Index. Format is approximately 7 inches by 10.25 inches. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Review slip and publisher's ephemera laid in. Robert W. Smith is a scholar of history and the classics at the University of Alberta, and he directed the Science, Technology and Society Program in the Faculty of Arts. He researches the history of big science, especially U.S. technology and the history of spaceflight. He wrote The Space Telescope: A Study of NASA, Science, Technology and Politics and he co-edited Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years After the Soviet Satellite. He served as the Walter Hines Page Fellow at the National Humanities Center in 1993-94. He held the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the U.S. National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution during the academic year 2006-07. He is interested in the technology and politics of the James Webb Space Telescope. Robert Smith's The Space Telescope sets the fascinating and disturbing history of this massive venture within the context of 'Big Science'. Launched at a cost of no more than $2 billion, the Space Telescope turned out to be seriously flawed by imperfections in the construction of its lenses and by solar panels that caused it to shudder when moving from daylight to darkness. Smith analyses how the processes of Big Science, especially those involving the government's funding process for large-scale projects, contributed to those failures. He reveals the astonishingly complex interactions that took place among the scientific community, government and industry and describes the great range of personalities and forces - scientific, technical, political, social, institutional and economic - that played roles in the Space Telescope's history. Dennis M. Arnold (Jacket Design) (illustrator).…

HARDCOVER. Reprint. 184pp, oblong quarto. PHOTOCOPIED COLLECTION. this is a XEROX COPY of the boook collected in clean yellow boards, name written on page edges, Very Good-.