Walter schirra (44 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. 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.

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ 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.

paperback. Zustand: Good. minor wear and creasing pages yellowed.

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

paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. Book club edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. CLEAN COVER AND CONTENT PAGES. New protective mylar applied to dust jacket before shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

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

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

Very good condition. One inch tear at bottom of spine. Some short creases along spine edge. Two light creases at top front corner. Slightly heavier crease near bottom edge of front cover. The Human Body (Part I). 112 pages.

Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: G-VG. 1st Printing. 1st printing, April 1963. The first generation of astronauts' story, in their own words. 32 pages of photos. Minor cover wear.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Owners name and stamp on half title page, off-setting from stamp on front fly, else fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Reprint. Hard cover binding, 375 pp. Photograph endpapers, index. illustrations. Previous owner tag to front endpaper, front hinge cracked. Good condition. Illustrated (illustrator).

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Zustand: NEAR FINE. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. 352pp. Color photo endpapers, B/W photo plates. Sewn binding in black cloth with gilt stamped lettering. Some light scuffing to the cloth, exceedingly clean and sharp otherwise. DJ tips worn, laminant separating along the front spine, clean and bright otherwise.…

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. No DJ. First Edition, First Printing. First Printing Stated. A Bright, Unworn, Undamaged, Unmarked Copy, Near Fine, Lcking Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Printing [Stated]. 352 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (some in color). Index. Cover has wear, chips, tears and soiling. Derived from a Kirkus review: The Astronauts are our new heroes, "part pilot, part engineer, part explorer, part scientist, " They're also, organization men supreme, sounding remarkably alike. The book presents the seven essaying why they joined Project Mercury (the reasons embrace pride in country and in self), the meaning of teamwork and training, the physical and psychological exams (almost all make sub rosa cracks re headshrinkers), and, most important, a full-scale record of the preparations for and enactment of the first sub-orbital and orbital take-offs by participants Shepard and Grissom, Glenn and Carpenter. It's the latters' accounts which prove the most exciting and exemplary, especially the Friendship 7 flight. So for all the Redstone, Atlas, Canaveral, NASA details and all the challenges and courageous responses shown. The book is a rewarding revelation.…

Trade paperback. Zustand: Good. 95, [3] pages plus covers. Wraps. Profusely illustrated (some in color). Maps. Figures. Covers somewhat soiled and some edge wear, sticker scuff on front cover. The cover states: "The Only First-Hand Story of America's Man-in-Space Project." This is by the seven astronauts of Project Mercury with Loudon Wainwright a staff writer for Life Magazine. Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the US Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty unmanned developmental flights (some using animals), and six successful flights by astronauts. The program, which took its name from Roman mythology, cost $1.8 billion adjusted for inflation. The astronauts were collectively known as the "Mercury Seven", and each spacecraft was given a name ending with a "7" by its pilot. Special Edition. Pre-flight printing [stated].…

No Binding. Zustand: Near Fine. Original Photograph. Original NASA Black and White Photograph of Astronauts and NASA managers being served steak by Louis Hartsell, the chef in the Astronaut Training Facility at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy/Cape Canaveral. This is an original, apparently unreleased photograph, no NASA serial number of notations, distributed at the center without any public information data on reverse. It was part of Hartsell's collection of astronaut photographs. Others in the photograph may include Alan Shepard and Don Eisele, along with Brainard Holmes, Flight Director, but this has not been verified.…

Hardcover. Zustand: As new. [12], 227, [3] pages. Color Frontis. Illustrations. Recently removed from shrinkwrap for cataloguing. The Easton Press's books are known for their elegant covers. Each book has the following features: Bound in genuine leather; Spine accented with 22 kt gold; Printed on archival paper; and Gilded page edges. The special contents of this edition were copyrighted in 1997 by The Easton Press. Facsimile signature of Wally Schirra on front cover. Authentic signature of Wally Schirra is on the Collector's Edition page above the number of the limited edition. Laid in is a Certificate of Authenticity signed by Wally Schirra and dated 23 Oct '96 and witnessed by Josephine F. Schirra and dated 23 Oct '96. The certificate indicated that the Author received 25 additional unnumbered copies over and above the 3000 individually numbered copies. The Certificate is also signed by Roy S. Pfeil, Publisher. Thus, there are two Schirra autographs! Also laid in is an unattached Easton bookplate. Walter Marty "Wally" Schirra Jr. (March 12, 1923 - May 3, 2007), (Captain, USN), was an American naval aviator and astronaut. He was one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, the first effort by the United States to put humans in space. On October 3, 1962, he flew the six-orbit, nine-hour, Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, in a spacecraft he nicknamed Sigma 7, becoming the fifth American, and ninth human, to travel to space. In the two-man Gemini program, he achieved the first space rendezvous, station-keeping his Gemini 6A spacecraft within 1 foot of the sister Gemini 7 spacecraft in December 1965. In October 1968, he commanded Apollo 7, an 11-day low Earth orbit shakedown test of the three-man Apollo Command/Service Module. He was the first person to go into space three times, and the only person to have flown in Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, logging a total of 295 hours and 15 minutes in space. After Apollo 7 he retired from the U.S. Navy with the rank of captain and from NASA, becoming a consultant to CBS News for its coverage of the subsequent Apollo flights. He joined Walter Cronkite as co-anchor for the seven Moon landing missions. Collector's Edition, number 1103 of 3000.…

Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Gut. B1216-251 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 880.

hardcover. Zustand: very good(+). Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. With Richard N. Billings. Illustrated. 227 pages, blue boards, d.w.; publisher's sticker on front cover, wear at foot of dust wrapper spine. Boston: Quinlan Press, (1988). Signed by Walter Schirra on half-title page. A very good(+) copy in a very good dust wrapper.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First Edition. 352p octavo, illustrated. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket inscribed by Gordon Cooper and signed by Shepard, Slayton and Schirra. Shepard, Slayton and Schirra are auto pen. Cooper has signed it below "Best wishes to Gareth . in another hand probablt Gareth's.…

First edition, early printing of this first-hand account of the genesis of Americaâs manned space program. Octavo, original half-cloth, top stain orange, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed by Mercury Seven Astronaut Scott Carpenter on the second front free endpaper, "Scott Carpenter Aurora 7." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. âThe first seven American astronauts were an admirable group of individuals chosen to sit at the apex of a pyramid of human effort⦠In volunteering to entrust their lives to Mercuryâs spirit and Atlasâ strength to blaze a trail for man into the empyrean, they chose to lead by following the opportunity that chance, circumstance, technology and history had prepared for themâ (Swenson, Grimwood & Alexander, 164-65). We Seven chronicles the beginnings of American manned space exploration from the perspectives of those who pioneered it, with each member of Project Mercury contributing at least three essay-length sections.…

First edition, early printing of this collection of flying stories. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed on the title page by Captain Phillip Wood, "9/6/96 Tailhook To Ozzy: A great Tailhooker Warrior. Big A little F but still one of the finest. 'Rat'" and Barrett Tillman, "To Ozzy: One of the gutsiest VFA pilosalfoat - Tailhook membership proves it! Barrett Tillman Tailhook '96." Additionally signed by Wood, "Phil Wood,"and Wally Schirra next to their respective names on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A rare collection of signatures. "This is the way it was by the guys who were there . told with all the impact of a cat shot. For many of us it brings back a lot of memories . for all of us it's a great read" (E. Duke Vincent, Ex Blue Angel, Vice Chairman Spelling TV).…

First edition of this sweeping large-format history of space exploration, signed and inscribed by twelve of the pioneering American astronauts of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. Folio, publisher's black cloth, with color illustrations and photographs throughout. Boldly signed and inscribed by the astronauts to Thomas or Mark Babinski, most signing twice, chiefly across the first and second half-title pages with others scattered throughout, the inscriptions dated 1994 and 1995. The signers are: Alan Bean (Apollo XII); Frank Borman (Gemini VII, Apollo 8); Charles Duke (Apollo 16); James Lovell (Gemini 7 and 12, Apollo 8 and 13); James McDivitt (Gemini IV, Apollo 9); Edgar Mitchell (Apollo 14); Wally Schirra (Mercury 8, Gemini 6, Apollo 7); Gordon Cooper (Mercury 9, Gemini 5); Walter Cunningham (Apollo 7); John Glenn (Friendship 7); Alan Shepard (Freedom 7, Apollo 14); and Alfred Worden (Apollo 15). In very good condition with tape reinforcement to the front hinge. A rare and desirable collection of signatures. Space: Discovery and Exploration is a lavishly illustrated large-format history of humanity's venture beyond the Earth, from the earliest rockets through the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs to the era of the Space Shuttle. The astronauts who have signed this copy were among the great pioneers of American spaceflight. John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth aboard Friendship 7 in 1962, and Alan Shepard, the first American in space, went on to command Apollo 14 and to walk on the Moon. Among the signers are four more moonwalkers, Alan Bean of Apollo 12, Charles Duke of Apollo 16, and Edgar Mitchell of Apollo 14, together with Frank Borman and James Lovell of Apollo 8, the first crew to orbit the Moon, and Lovell again as commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13. Wally Schirra remains the only astronaut to have flown in all three of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. Together their signatures gather the living memory of the first age of human spaceflight into a single volume.…

First edition of this revealing autobiography of Captain Walter M. Schirra, Jr. Octavo, original blue boards, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Wally Schirra and Jack Lousma on the front free endpaper and also signed by astronauts Mario Runco, Bill Shepherd, Bill Readdy, and Alan Shepard. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Hannus Design Associates and front jacket painting by Robert Peak. The fifth American in space during the Mercury-Atlas 8 mission and the only astronaut to fly in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs, Walter 'Wally' Schirraâs career in NASA represents each step in answering Kennedyâs 1961 call to put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s.…

First edition, early printing of this first-hand account of the genesis of Americaâs manned space program. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Mercury Seven Astronauts on the front free endpaper, "Bob Best wishes- Scott Carpenter and John Glenn. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. âThe first seven American astronauts were an admirable group of individuals chosen to sit at the apex of a pyramid of human effort⦠In volunteering to entrust their lives to Mercuryâs spirit and Atlasâ strength to blaze a trail for man into the empyrean, they chose to lead by following the opportunity that chance, circumstance, technology and history had prepared for themâ (Swenson, Grimwood & Alexander, 164-65). We Seven chronicles the beginnings of American manned space exploration from the perspectives of those who pioneered it, with each member of Project Mercury contributing at least three essay-length sections. …

hardcover. Zustand: fine. near fine. first. SIGNED first printing, as stated on copyright page. Signed by Carpenter, Schirra, Shepard and Cooper. Book fine. Dust jacket near fine, indent along spine, some tape residue along edges of vertical part of flaps.