Cortright edgar m ed (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket as Issued. Gilt titles on dull blue cloth. 214pp. Size: Quarto.

Zustand: fair to good. Quarto, 214, profusely illus. (some in color), endpaper maps, index, weakness to front board, boards scuffed & soiled.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Quarto. XI, [1], 313, [3] pages. Profusely illustrated (some in color). Endpaper maps. Key Events in Apollo. The Contributors. Editor's Note. Index. Illustrated cover. Edgar Maurice Cortright (July 29, 1923 - May 4, 2014) was a scientist and engineer, and senior official at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Cortright went to work at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory at NACA, in Cleveland, Ohio. There, he held the positions of Aeronautical Research Scientist ; Head of Small Supersonic Tunnels Section; and Chief, Eight-by-Six-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel Branch. He joined NASA agency in 1958 and worked at NASA Headquarters in Washington D.C. where he was Chief of Advanced Technology; Assistant Director for Lunar and Planetary Programs, Office of Space Flight Programs; Deputy Director for Space Science and Applications; Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Science and Applications; and Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Manned Space Flight. Following the spacecraft explosion during the Apollo 13 spaceflight in April 1970, Cortright was appointed chairman of the Apollo 13 Review Board which was established to investigate the cause of the accident. When Apollo was conceived, a lunar landing was considered so difficult that it could only be accomplished through exceptional large-scale efforts in science, in engineering, and in the development of operational and training systems for long-duration manned flights. These required the application of large resources over time. Industry, universities, and government elements had to be melded into a team of teams. The chapter Webb authored reviewed the origins of this task and how it was implemented. Later chapters by other contributors describe how particular problems were solved, how the astronauts and other teams of specialists were trained and performed, how the giant spaceboosters were built and flown, and how all this was joined together in a fully integrated effort. In many of these essays you will find indications of the meaning of the Apollo program to those who devoted much of their lives to it.…

Laminated Boards. Zustand: Very Good. Excellent official NASA account. Nicely illus. Endpaper charts. pp.viii.313.

Zustand: fair, ex-lib. Quarto, 313, profusely illus. (many in color), endpaper maps, chronology, index, library stamps, binding somewhat shaken, boards scuffed. Board and spine edges worn, small tear at top of spine, library call number sticker taped to spine, library sticker and stamps on rear board. Contributors include Wernher von Braun, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., and James A. Lovell.…