Nasa Apollo (11 results)

Mass-market paperback. Condition: Poor. First edition. DELL, 1978. First edition. . Poor. 1 256 p. Includes bibliography.

gd. clean, but dog eared.

Condition: New.

[Space and Aviation][Science] Apollo 15 Press Kit. Prepared by Manned Spacecraft Recovery Force, Atlantic Task Force 140, Building SP-71 Naval Air Station. Norfolk: Manned Spacecraft Center, 1971. Approximately 80 Mimeograph pages . Measures 8" x 10.5". Original Softcover light blue wrappers, bound together with two power staples. Apollo 15, which lasted from July 26 through August 7, 1971, brought the first manned surface vehicle--the Lunar Rover--to the Moon. This press kit features the Apollo 15 mission statement, "recovery procedures", "Apollo 15 Possible Contingency Landing Situations", and "Navy Spacecraft Recovery", Even so, it includes three complex charts, highlighting "Lunar Mission Recovery Lines", "Launch Abort Area and Force Deployment", and "Primary Landing Area and Force Deployment". Clean pages and wrappers, in very good condition.

Oblong 4to. 11 x 8.5 in. ii, 26 pp. Photo frontisp., numerous photo plates, illustrations, map. Blue-tinted softcovers, illustrated on front cover showing gantry moving an Apollo capsule module, old flight control tower, black lettering (minor age toning, tinting), still VG copy. First edition of this very scarce in-house history of the North American Aviation company's Space & Information Systems Division which during the 1960's produced the command and service modules for the Apollo Spacecraft. The volume details the early engineering, manufacturing operations in California, and expansion through the 1930s of the Company as they built the C-47, BT-9, BC-1, XB-21, NA-40 Bomber ( the forerunner of the B-26), and the T-6 Trainer. This company history describes the development of the Mitchell B-25 Bomber, the XB-28 Bomber, and the P-51 Mustang, the wartime expansion. After World War II, North American Aviation would develop the Convair XF-92A, AJ-1 Savage, X-10, Little Joe Booster vehicle, Hound Dog missiles for the B-52, and finally Saturn V Apollo program components. Later, following the Apollo I fire, the company merged with Rockwell in 1967, and was renamed North American Rockwell, and then Rockwell International. No copies located in Worldcat.

[Apollo 11.] Hage, George H. (1925-2008). Apollo 11 mission director's briefing for news media. Reproduced typescript. 78pp. (irregularly numbered), including diagrams. Washington, DC: NASA, 16 June 1969. 268 x 205 mm. Unbound (stapled). Some damage from paper clips on a few leaves, including rust stains and small marginal tears, minor spotting, but very good. First Printing. On 16 June 1969, one month before the launch of the historic Apollo 11 spaceflight to the moon, George Hage, the Apollo mission's director, held a lengthy and detailed briefing on the project for the news media. The briefing's main purpose was to calm the public's fear-stoked by inflammatory stories in the press-that the Apollo 11 astronauts might bring back to Earth some unknown deadly lunar disease. "One month before the Apollo 11 liftoff, a media briefing was held in Washington to describe the details of the mission and . . . allay any fears that the first landing and return from the Moon's surface posed any danger to life on Earth. The final portion of the briefing was conducted by Air Force colonel John Pickering, who had served on the Interagency Committee on Back Contamination and now held the title director of lunar receiving operations . . . He went to great lengths to describe the procedures that would be followed, from collecting and packaging the samples on the Moon through recovery and transport of the samples and astronauts to the LRL [Lunar Receiving Laboratory] . . . This openness and attention to detail defused this issue for most of the media, and it never surfaced again as a major public concern" (Beattie, Taking Science to the Moon: Lunar Experiments and the Apollo Program, p. 261). .

ASTRONAUT OBSERVATIONS FROM THE APOLLO-SOYUZ MISSION by Faroul El-Baz. Smithonian Studies in Air and Space Number 1, Smithonian Institution Press, Washington 1. Auflage 1977, ERSTAUSGABE / FIRST EDITION, 400 SS. Pb. gr. 4°, ordentlich erhalten - mit eigenhändiger Widmung, Empfehlung, Unterschrift signiert "For Dr. Lothar Beckel / with best wishes / FAROUK EL-BAZ" (Widmungsempfänger = LOTHAR BECKEL (1934), böhmischer Kartograf und Unternehmer. 1962 hatte er bereits seine wissenschaftliche Laufbahn im Bereich der Geografie und der Satellitenbeobachtung begonnen. 1972 tauchten die ersten Satellitenbilder auf, die veröffentlicht wurden, und Beckel gehörte zu den ?Wissenschaftern der ersten Stunde?, die sich mit der neuen Materie intensiver beschäftigten. Am Institut für Geografie und Regionalforschung der Universität Wien war er über lange Jahre als Universitätsdozent tätig. 1977 war Beckel einer der sechs Kandidaten aus Österreich bei der Astronautenauswahl der Europäischen Weltraumorganisation (ESA) . Von 1984 bis 2007 war Beckel Inhaber eines Kartographieunternehmens zur Auswertung von Satellitenbilddaten und der Herstellung und dem Vertrieb kartografischer Produkte. Die GEOSPACE Beckel Satellitenbilddaten Gesellschaft m.b.H. sowie die Geospace International GmbH waren dabei als Institut für angewandte Forschung und praktische Anwendung von Fernerkundung mit Satellitenbilddaten und geographischen Informationssystemen tätig. (Wiki).).

An evocative image from the greatest space mission of the 20th century, as the moon-bound astronauts of Apollo 11 looked back towards planet Earth. On 17 July 1969, Apollo 11 was speeding away from Earth on an intersect course with the Moon. At a distance of around 98 million miles, Michael Collins (1930-2021) took this image on a hand-held Hasselblad camera, loaded with 70mm Kodak film. The picture shows night falling across the Eastern Hemisphere on the second day of the mission. These 8 x 8 inch chromogenic prints were primarily produced for the press, although many found their way to NASA's employees and their contractors. Chromogenic print (8 x 8 inches). "A Kodak paper" watermarks on verso. Light sunning, otherwise in fine condition.

THE ONLY KNOWN PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD OF THE FIRST STEPS TAKEN BY A HUMAN BEING THE MOON Three vintage gelatin silver prints, 89 x 127mm (3.5 x 5in), each watermarked 'A KODAK PAPER' to verso. Fine condition. At 02:56 UTC, on July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped off the bottom rung of the ladder descending from the Lunar Module Eagle, and uttered some of the most famous words in history: 'it's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind'. The moment was captured as a live feed from a Westinghouse camera attached to the Eagle, yet this provided no permanent record, so NASA, as with other televised events, had photographs taken of the moment as it played out on television. This trio of photographs is the result. The first photograph shows Armstrong on the ladder, where he paused and commented on the fine sand-like surface of the Moon: "I'm at the foot of the ladder. The LM [Lunar Module] foot pads are only depressed in the surface about 1 or 2 inches, although the surface appears to be very, very fine grained, as you get close to it. It's almost like a powder. [.] I'm going to step off the LM now." The second photograph shows the first steps - the moment Armstrong uttered his famous line. The third follows Armstrong as he bounds on, commenting: "The surface is fine and powdery. I can [.] pick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal to the sole and sides of my boots." Although Armstrong took an extensive series of very famous photographs on the surface of the Moon, there are only a couple of photographs in which he is (marginally) visible himself, and aside from the present group there is no photographic record of the first steps. These photographs were produced immediately after the landing: not only do they bear the typical 'A KODAK PAPER' watermark, but they are in fact dated in the print 'JUL ? 69 ?', the month of the lunar landing - possibly before Armstrong, Aldrin and Michael Collins made splashdown near the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean, on July 24. NASA later released a large-format photograph from the video showing Armstrong on the ladder prior to the first step (NASA S-69-42583), but we have been unable to locate any other photographic images of the first moments after Armstrong actually descended to the lunar surface.

Pressemitteilung / Press Release (1 S. kl. 4°, aufgezogen, Ränder beschnitten) vom 20.V.1969, von Frank Borman eigenhändig signiert - The Commander of APOLLO 8, the first manned spacecraft to circumnavigate the Moon arrives in Prague May 20, 1969 for the COSPAR (Comitee on Space Research) at it s XII th Plenary Meeting at the Hotel International.

GROßFOTO mit eigenhändiger Widmung, Unterschrift (farb. GF,4°; ca. 1978) - als Chef der amerikanischen Fluglinie Eastern Airline (dito zum gleichen Preis : seltenes s/w-Pressefoto mit Bundeskanzler KURT GEORG KIESINGER (1904-88) bei einem Empfang, von beiden eigenhändig signiert).