Project Mercury (13 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. Cover has some wear and tear and ragged edges and spine but still tight. Pages have toning, but are unmarked. If you have any questions, or would like images, please let me know.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. THE ASTRONAUTS, PIONEERS IN SPACE, POST-FLIGHT PRINTING, SPECIAL EDITION! COMMANDER SHEPARD'S OWN ACCOUNT OF HIS FLIGHT INTO SPACE, Seven Astronauts of Project Mercury and Loudon Wainwright, Golden Press/LIFE Magazine, 1961, 96p, mag. pb, bumped/scuffed covers, clean/tanning text, solid binding--8.00.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Special Edition. 95pp. Slight edge-wear. Major L. Gordon Cooper, Commander Walter Schirra, Commander Alan Sheperd, Lieutenent Colonel John H. Glenn, Lieutenent Commander Scott Carpenter, Major Donald Slayton, Captain Virgil Grissom. Contains Alan Shepherd's own account of his flight into space. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall T7.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. 107 pages : illustrations ; illustrated wraps. Prev owner's name in neat fountain pen on front wrap. NASA's post-flight analysis of the Mercury-Atlas 7 flight (Aurora 7) piloted by Scott Carpenter, with analysis and lessons learned.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Softcover. Blue covers with black and grey lettering and illustration. Title page dated 1963, copyright page dated December 1962. 120 pages. Good condition. Covers clean, square, have just minor shelf wear. Binding is strong. Pages are clean and free of marks.

audioCD. Condition: Gut. Seiten; B3414-201 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

CD. Condition: Gut. Compilation. B1058-148 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 200.

CD. Condition: Sehr gut. Compilation. B1057-249 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 150.

FIRST EDITION. Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This is an historic account of how the Astronauts of Project Mercury reconnoitred and bravely crossed the threshold of space. There is wear and staining to the blue boards and the text block, the D/W is also stained on its interior, edges,corners and front and rear flaps. there is also wear to its top edges and corners. The D/w is also covered in a thin plastic.The original price has been over-inked. Even with these problems it is still a readable copy of the early days of space flight.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First printing (per publisher's requisite statement upon copyright page) SIGNED BY A. SHEPARD, JOHN GLENN, SCOTT CARPENTER, WALLY SCHIRRA (with additional "Apollo 7" handwritten note), AND DEKE SLAYTON ALL ON FRONT FLYLEAF RECTO (signed by five of the seven Mercury astronauts - unfortunately lacks the signatures of Gus Grissom and Gordon Cooper). 352 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 16.75cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed with nicks and several short tears at edges; small slender chip at rear panel's top edge; dj's clear laminate unevenly applied causing mild rippling at lower rear panel and slender air gap along rear flap fold; laminate also laid fractionally shy of flaps' terminal edges as well as dj's top and bottom edges resulting in slender bands of dark soiling in the narrow gap areas; front flap retains publisher's printed price at its bottom front flap corner; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Full black cloth binding with bold white stamped lettering to front board and spine. Light toning to top edge. Binding shows slight stress within the first quire but still quite firm. Publisher's printing error on page 348 of the Index with missed lettering adjacent to fore-edge margin so that headings are missing their first letter near top but nearly three initial letters towards bottom. Else a very good copy in a good+ dust jacket.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Satisfaisant. Format:14/22 EX LIBRIS, DUST JACKET INSERTED IN THE FIRST PAGES OF THE BOOK.

Condition: Very Good. (Washington, D. C.), Manned Spacecraft Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1962. 4to. vi,+ 107 pp. Richly illustrated in black & white. Stapled, in printed wrapper. (NASA SP-6.) With Mercury-Atlas 7, as the mission is officially called, Carpenter became the second American astronaut - following John Glenn - to complete an orbital space flight. The report contains sections on spacecraft and lauch-vehicle performance, Mercury network performance, mission operations, space science report, aeromedical studies, pilot performance and pilot?s flight report.Contributions by John H. Boynton, E. M. Fields, James J. Donegan, James C. Jackson, John D. Hodge, Eugene F. Kranz, William C. Hayes, John A. O?Keefe, Winifred Sawtell Cameron, Howard A. Minners, Stanley C. White, William K. Douglas, Edward C. Knoblock, Ashton Graybiel, Ernest P. McCutcheon, Charles A. Berry, G. Fred Kelly, Rita M. Rapp, Robie Hackworth, Helmut A. Kuehnel, William O. Armstrong, John J. Van Bockel, Harold I. Johnson and the pilot Scott Carpenter. Softcover / Paperback.