9780387242859 - Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space von Schmitt, Harrison (8 Ergebnisse)

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

Zustand: New. This is a Brand-new US Edition. This Item may be shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.

Zustand: Used. pp. 352 20 Illus.

Zustand: Used. pp. 352.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo (233 x 155 mm). xvi, 335 [1] pp. Half green cloth and black paper boards, in pictorial dust-jacket. Signed by the author on title page in black pen (Harrison Schmitt / Apollo 17"). Fine condition, in fine dust-jacket. ISBN 0387242856. ---- FIRST EDITION, HAND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Harrison H. Schmitt (born 1935) received a Ph.D. in geology from Harvard University in 1964. He was the first NASA scientist-astronaut to actually go into action. His previous task was to train the other astronauts for the upcoming lunar excursions for geological investigations. On March 15, 1970, he was assigned to the Apollo 15 backup crew as pilot of the lunar module. According to the usual rules, he would therefore have been nominated for the main crew of Apollo 18, but this flight was canceled in September 1970. Under pressure from various quarters, he was finally assigned to the Apollo 17 crew as a scientist-astronaut on August 13, 1971. His only mission in space lasted from December 6 to 19, 1972. As part of the Apollo 17 mission, he landed in the Taurus-Littrow area on December 11 with the lunar module Challenger and, together with Eugene Cernan, carried out the longest lunar exploration of all Apollo missions. There they set the unofficial lunar land speed record of 18 km/h. Schmitt is the twelfth and so far the last human to walk on the Moon, and the penultimate human on the lunar surface, which he left on December 14, 1972 (Cernan, the mission commander, walked on the lunar surface before Schmitt and returned to the lunar module after him on the final excursion). Schmitt retired from NASA in August 1975 (Wikisource). - Visit our website to see more images! Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with DJ. Black boards with blue cloth spine, with silver lettering. Black pictorial DJ in good condition (not quite very good because of a little crinkle at the top edge of the DJ). The book itself is in great shape. No date on title page. Copyright page dated only 2006. 335 pages. Signed and inscribed on the title page, 'To Linda! and [??] future, Harrison H. Schmitt. Apollo 17.' Schmitt was the 12th man to walk on the moon (there were only 13) as a member of the Apollo 17 crew, in Dec 1972. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Copernicus Books, New York, 2006. 335 pgs. Signed by Harrison Schmitt on the title page. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt advocates a private, investor-based approach to returning humans to the Moonto extract Helium 3 for energy production, to use the Moon as a platform for science and manufacturing, and to establish permanent human colonies there in a kind of stepping stone community on the way to deeper space. With governments playing a supporting rolejust as they have in the development of modern commercial aeronautics and agricultural productionSchmitt believes that a fundamentally private enterprise is the only type of organization capable of sustaining such an effort and, eventually, even making it pay off. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.