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paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

8vo. 200pp. Colour and b/w. illustrations, CD Rom in rear pocket. Paperback in original pictorial orange wrapps. with brown lettering to faded spine. ISBN 1896522610 US$9.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. paperback/cd-rom edition. 264 pages. 10.25x7.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Card covers. Excellent reference on NASA Mission Reports. 1st Edition 2000. 408pp., numerous illustrations, including colour, plans, CD. Very good condition.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. paperback/cd-rom edition. 256 pages. 10.25x7.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. 464 pages with CD in rear pocket. Illustrations (some in color). Diagrams. Maps. The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development. The first of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights beginning in 1982. Five complete Shuttle systems were built and used on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011, launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Operational missions launched numerous satellites, interplanetary probes, and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST); conducted science experiments in orbit; and participated in construction and servicing of the International Space Station. The Shuttle fleet's total mission time was 1322 days, 19 hours, 21 minutes and 23 seconds. Shuttle components included the Orbiter Vehicle (OV), a pair of recoverable solid rocket boosters (SRBs), and the expendable external tank (ET) containing liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. The Shuttle was launched vertically, like a conventional rocket, with the two SRBs operating in parallel with the OV's three main engines, which were fueled from the ET. The SRBs were jettisoned before the vehicle reached orbit, and the ET was jettisoned just before orbit insertion, which used the orbiter's two Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) engines. At the conclusion of the mission, the orbiter fired its OMS to de-orbit and re-enter the atmosphere. The orbiter then glided as a spaceplane to a runway landing, usually to the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, Florida or Rogers Dry Lake in Edwards Air Force Base, California. After landing at Edwards, the orbiter was flown back to the KSC on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a specially modified version of the Boeing 747. The first orbiter, Enterprise, was built in 1976, used in Approach and Landing Tests and had no orbital capability. Four fully operational orbiters were initially built: Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, and Atlantis. Of these, two were lost in mission accidents: Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003, with a total of fourteen astronauts killed. A fifth operational (and sixth in total) orbiter, Endeavour, was built in 1991 to replace Challenger. The Space Shuttle was retired from service upon the conclusion of Atlantis's final flight on July 21, 2011. The Approach and Landing Test Programme encompassed 16 separate tests of Enterprise, covering taxi tests, unmanned and manned flights on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, and finally the free flight tests. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Printing. 424 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with a section of colour plates. Unopened CD-ROM at the back of the book. Page edges are lightly smudged. Bound in brown card covers with red titles. Lightly worn around the edges. 2nd printing. VG. Book.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 424 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with a section of colour plates. Unopened CD-ROM at the back of the book. Page edges are lightly smudged. Bound in brown card covers with red titles. Lightly worn around the edges. 1ST EDITION. VG. Book.…

paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine-. 464 pages in near fine condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white illustrations and colour plates throughout. Page edges are lightly smudged. Bound in green card covers with white and black titles. Lightly worn around the edges. A CD-ROM included at the back of the book. SCARCE. NF-. Book.…

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. 128 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Technical data. This is published for the first time completely in English. Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (12 January 1907 [O.S. 30 December 1906] 14 January 1966) was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the U.S' and the Soviet Union. He invented the R-7 Rocket, Sputnik 1, and was involved in Laika, Sputnik 3, the first human-made object to make contact with another celestial body, Belka and Strelka, the first human being, Yuri Gagarin, into space, Voskhod 1, and the first person, Alexei Leonov, to conduct a spacewalk. Korolev's greatest strengths proved to be in design integration, organization and strategic planning. He was the key figure in the development of the Soviet Intercontinental ballistic missile program. He directed the Soviet space program and was a Member of Soviet Academy of Sciences, overseeing the successes of Sputnik and Vostok. S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation "Energia", commonly known as RSC Energia, is a Russian aerospace manufacturer and spacecraft design bureau. Headquartered in Korolyov, Moscow Oblast, the company is the principal contractor for Russia's human spaceflight program, producing crewed and cargo spacecraft, space station modules, and satellite platforms. Founded in 1946 as OKB-1 under Sergei Korolev, the group was responsible for pioneering achievements in the Soviet and Russian space programs, including the launch of the first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 and the first human spaceflight, Vostok 1. Over subsequent decades it developed the Soyuz spacecraft, the Progress cargo vehicle, the Energia heavy-lift launch system, and modules for the Salyut, Mir, and the International Space Station (ISS). A small metal sphere weighing slightly more than 83 kilograms was placed into an elliptical orbit by the mighty R-7 rocket. It was perhaps one of the most significant moments in human history. The date was October 4th 1957 and the sphere was called Sputnik. When the world's first artificial satellite sped across the night skies the impact was far-reaching and profound. Not only was this clearly one of the great scientific achievements of the modern age but it was also a catalyst which would propel the United States out of its post-War lethargy. The Political significance of the lift-capability of the R-7 rocket aroused the attentions of the West while irrevocably altering the face of human history. The Space Age had begun. The story of the R-7 rocket and its many offspring is one which still remains a mystery in the West. Now in the post-Cold war era the remarkable accomplishments of the engineers of Rocket & Space Corporation Energia are finally reaching eager readers in the West. The pages within contain a pictorial record encompassing the entire history of the Russian space program, from its inception at the end of World War II to the present day. The sheer wealth of original and durable technology is a testament to the ingenuity of a remarkable people. Rocket & Space Corporation Energia features rare pictures and diagrams including: Sputnik - Yuri Gagarin's Vostok capsule - the world's first Space Stations - the enormous lunar rocket N1 - Russia's interplanetary probes and the Buran shuttle. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.…