| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “astronauts”
books tagged “astronauts”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
English
The All American Boysby Walter CunninghamISBN 1596873450 (1-59687-345-0)
Softcover, Ibooks
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The All American Boys'
The All American Boysby Mickey Herskowitz, Walter CunninghamISBN 0025292404 (0-02-529240-4)
Hardcover, Macmillan
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The All American Boys'More editions of The All American Boys:
All We Did Was Fly to the Moonby Dick Lattimer, James A. MichenerISBN 0961122803 (0-9611228-0-3)
Softcover, Whispering Eagle Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'All We Did Was Fly to the Moon'More editions of All We Did Was Fly to the Moon:
Almost Heaven: The Story of Women in Spaceby Bettyann KevlesISBN 0738202096 (0-7382-0209-6)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Almost Heaven: The Story of Women in Space'More editions of Almost Heaven: The Story of Women in Space:
-
Apolloby Charles MurrayISBN 0976000806 (0-9760008-0-6)
Softcover, Cox & Murray Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Apollo'Book summary:Out of print for fifteen years, this is the classic account of how the United States got to the moon. It is a book for those who were part of Apollo and want to recapture the experience and for those of a new generation who want to know how it was done. It is an opinon shared by many Apollo veterans. Republished in 2004 with a new Foreword by the authors. [via]
More editions of Apollo:
-
Apollo 13by Jim Lovell, Jeffrey KlugerISBN 0618056653 (0-618-05665-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Apollo 13'Book summary:On April 13, 1970, three American astronauts were on their way to the moon when a mysterious explosion rocked their ship, forcing them to abandon the main ship and spend four days in the tiny lunar module which was intended to support two men for two days. A harrowing story of danger, courage and brilliant off-the-cuff engineering solutions which resulted in a dramatic rescue. [via]
-
Apollo 13by Jeffrey KlugerISBN 0618619585 (0-618-61958-5)
Softcover, Mariner Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Apollo 13'Book summary:On April 13, 1970, three American astronauts were on their way to the moon when a mysterious explosion rocked their ship, forcing them to abandon the main ship and spend four days in the tiny lunar module which was intended to support two men for two days. A harrowing story of danger, courage and brilliant off-the-cuff engineering solutions which resulted in a dramatic rescue. [via]
More editions of Apollo 13:
Apollo: The Lost and Forgotten Missionsby David J.D ShaylerISBN 1852335750 (1-85233-575-0)
Softcover, Springer Verlag
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Apollo: The Lost and Forgotten Missions'More editions of Apollo: The Lost and Forgotten Missions:
Astronaut Living in Spaceby Kate Hayden, Peter DennisISBN 0789454211 (0-7894-5421-1)
Softcover, Dk Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Astronaut Living in Space'More editions of Astronaut Living in Space:
Astronauts: The First 25 Years of Manned Space Flightby Bill YenneISBN 0671081942 (0-671-08194-2)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Astronauts: The First 25 Years of Manned Space Flight'More editions of Astronauts: The First 25 Years of Manned Space Flight:
Astronauts in Trouble: Master Flight Plan Live from the Moon; Space 1959; One Shot, One Beerby Matt Smith, Larry Young, Charlie AdlardISBN 1932051120 (1-932051-12-0)
Hardcover, A I T Planet Lar
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Astronauts in Trouble: Master Flight Plan Live from the Moon; Space 1959; One Shot, One Beer'More editions of Astronauts in Trouble: Master Flight Plan Live from the Moon; Space 1959; One Shot, One Beer:
Can You Hear a Shout in Space: Questions and Answers About Space Explorationby Melvin Berger, Gilda Berger, Vincent Di FateISBN 0439148790 (0-439-14879-0)
Softcover, Scholastic
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Can You Hear a Shout in Space: Questions and Answers About Space Exploration'More editions of Can You Hear a Shout in Space: Questions and Answers About Space Exploration:
Carrying the Fireby Michael CollinsISBN 0553239481 (0-553-23948-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Carrying the Fire'More editions of Carrying the Fire:
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeysby Michael CollinsISBN 1885283148 (1-885283-14-8)
Hardcover, Adventure Library
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys'Book summary:NASA astronaut Michael Collins trained as an experimental test pilot before venturing into space as a vital member of the Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 missions. In Carrying the Fire, his account of his voyages into space and the years of training that led up to them, Collins reveals the human tensions, the physical realities, and the personal emotions surrounding the early years of the space race.
Collins provides readers with an insider's view of the space program and conveys the excitement and wonder of his journey to the moon. As skilled at writing as he is at piloting a spacecraft, Collins explains the clash of personalities at NASA and technical aspects of flight with clear, engaging prose, withholding nothing in his candid assessments of fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, and Buzz Aldrin, and officials within NASA.
A fascinating memoir of mankind's greatest journey told in familiar, human terms, Carrying the Fire is by turns thrilling, humorous, and thought-provoking, a unique work by a remarkable man. [via]More editions of Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys:
- Carrying the Fire : An Astronaut's Journeys: ISBN 081541028X (0-8154-1028-X)
Softcover, Cooper Square Publishers, Incorporated - Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys: ISBN 0374119198 (0-374-11919-8)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux - Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys: ISBN 0374119171 (0-374-11917-1)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus and Giroux - Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys: ISBN 1885283148 (1-885283-14-8)
Hardcover, Adventure Library
- Carrying the Fire : An Astronaut's Journeys: ISBN 081541028X (0-8154-1028-X)
Deke!: U.S. Manned Space From Mercury to the Shuttleby Michael Cassutt, Donald K. SlaytonISBN 0312855036 (0-312-85503-6)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Deke!: U.S. Manned Space From Mercury to the Shuttle'More editions of Deke!: U.S. Manned Space From Mercury to the Shuttle:
Dragonfly: An Epic Adventure of Survival in Outer Spaceby Bryan BurroughISBN 0060932694 (0-06-093269-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Dragonfly: An Epic Adventure of Survival in Outer Space'More editions of Dragonfly: An Epic Adventure of Survival in Outer Space:
Dragonfly: Nasa and the Crisis Aboard Mirby Bryan BurroughISBN 0887307833 (0-88730-783-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Dragonfly: Nasa and the Crisis Aboard Mir'More editions of Dragonfly: Nasa and the Crisis Aboard Mir:
The Evidenceby Austin BoydISBN 1576839443 (1-57683-944-3)
Softcover, Navpress Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Evidence'More editions of The Evidence:
Failure Is Not an Optionby Gene KranzISBN 0743214471 (0-7432-1447-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Failure Is Not an Option'More editions of Failure Is Not an Option:
-
Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyondby Gene KranzISBN 0425179877 (0-425-17987-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond'Book summary:In 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik and the ensuing space race. Three years later, Gene Kranz left his aircraft testing job to join NASA and champion the American cause. What he found was an embryonic department run by whiz kids (such as himself), sharp engineers and technicians who had to create the Mercury mission rules and procedure from the ground up. As he says, "Since there were no books written on the actual methodology of space flight, we had to write them as we went along."
Kranz was part of the mission control team that, in January 1961, launched a chimpanzee into space and successfully retrieved him, and made Alan Shepard the first American in space in May 1961. Just two months later they launched Gus Grissom for a space orbit, John Glenn orbited Earth three times in February 1962, and in May of 1963 Gordon Cooper completed the final Project Mercury launch with 22 Earth orbits. And through them all, and the many Apollo missions that followed, Gene Kranz was one of the integral inside men--one of those who bore the responsibility for the Apollo 1 tragedy, and the leader of the "tiger team" that saved the Apollo 13 astronauts.
Moviegoers know Gene Kranz through Ed Harris's Oscar-nominated portrayal of him in Apollo 13, but Kranz provides a more detailed insider's perspective in his book Failure Is Not an Option. You see NASA through his eyes, from its primitive days when he first joined up, through the 1993 shuttle mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, his last mission control project. His memoir, however, is not high literature. Kranz has many accomplishments and honors to his credit, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but this is his first book, and he's not a polished author. There are, perhaps, more behind-the-scenes details and more paragraphs devoted to what Cape Canaveral looked like than the general public demands. If, however, you have a long-standing fascination with aeronautics, if you watched Apollo 13 and wanted more, Failure Is Not an Option will fill the bill. --Stephanie Gold [via]
More editions of Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond:
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrongby James R. HansenISBN 0743257510 (0-7432-5751-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong'Book summary:On 20 July 1969, the world stood still to watch 38-year-old astronaut Neil Armstrong become the first person ever to walk on the Moon. Perhaps no words in recent human history became better known than those few he uttered at that historic moment. Upon his return to Earth, Armstrong was honoured and celebrated for his achievement. But he was also misunderstood. As authorised biographer James Hansen reveals in this fascinating and important book, it was the act of flying that had driven Armstrong rather than the pull of the destination, from his distinguished career as a fighter pilot in the Korean War right through to his most famous mission. Drawing on flight logs, family and Nasa archives and over 125 original interviews with key participants, FIRST MAN vividly re-creates Armstrong's life and career in flying, from the heights of honour earned as a naval aviator, test pilot and astronaut, to the dear personal price paid by Armstrong and, even more so, by his wife and children, for his dedication to his vocation. It is a unique portrait of a great but reluctant hero. [via]
More editions of First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong:
First on the Moon: What It Was Like When Man Landed on the Moonby Barbara Hehner, Greg RuhlISBN 0786804890 (0-7868-0489-0)
Hardcover, Disney Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'First on the Moon: What It Was Like When Man Landed on the Moon'More editions of First on the Moon: What It Was Like When Man Landed on the Moon:
-
First on the Moon. a Voyage With Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins [And] Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.,by Neil ArmstrongISBN 0316051608 (0-316-05160-8)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'First on the Moon. a Voyage With Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins [And] Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.,'Book summary:Written with Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin. Epilogue by Arthur C. Clarke. With photographs. 511 pages. No ISBN. FIRST ON THE MOON is history, but it is also the chronicle of any and all men who unite to meet the unspoken challenge posed by the unknown. It is an exclusive and official account, the way the voyage was, as seen b the men who experience it. [via]
More editions of First on the Moon. a Voyage With Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins [And] Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.,:
Flight of the Falconby Paul ThomsenISBN 1561210560 (1-56121-056-0)
Softcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Flight of the Falcon'More editions of Flight of the Falcon:
-
Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Storyby Michael CollinsISBN 0374423563 (0-374-42356-3)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story'Book summary:In this entrancing account, space traveler Michael Collins recalls his early days as an Air Force test pilot, his astronaut training at NASA, and his unparalleled experiences in orbit, including the Apollo 11 mission, the first manned lunar landing. The final chapter to his autobiography, revised and updated for this edition, is an exciting and convincing argument in favor of mankind's continued exploration of our universe."Several astronauts have written about their experiences, but none so well as Michael Collins...This is just the book to give the child whose parents made Yeager and The Right Stuff best sellers."-The Washington Post Book World
[via]More editions of Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story:
For All Mankindby Harry HurtISBN 0871133512 (0-87113-351-2)
Softcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'For All Mankind'Book summary:Between December 1968 and December 1972, twenty-four men captured the imagination of the world as they voyaged to the moon. For All Mankind presents a dramatic, engrossing, and comprehensive account of what President John F. Kennedy called "the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked." Based on exclusive interviews with the Apollo astronauts, For All Mankind contains the most comprehensive and revealing firsthand accounts of space travel ever assembled. This edition has been reissued in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of the first lunar landing. [via]
For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronautby Scott Carpenter, Kris StoeverISBN 0451211057 (0-451-21105-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut'Book summary:M. Scott Carpenter was America's fourth man in space, his 1962 three-orbit mission in a tiny Mercury capsule closely paralleling that of John Glenn's previous mission. But that's where the similarities end: a malfunctioning navigational system caused Carpenter to splash down, dangerously, some 250 miles off-target, and Glenn's fame would somehow forever eclipse that of all seven of his fellow original astronauts combined. This memoir, penned in conjunction with Carpenter's daughter Kris, oddly distances itself from Carpenter's life through use of a third-person narrative (only the astronaut's calm account of his perilous mission is delivered directly in his voice), a device that ultimately echoes the more personal distances Carpenter endured in his own fateful, if troubled, journey toward the stars.
While Carpenter may have been able to trace his lineage back to the Plymouth colony of the 1630s, his immediate family seemed shattered. His research-chemist father was successful but absent, his mother often a bedridden invalid. Carpenter's journey to the Mercury program after a Rocky Mountain childhood and a stint on lumbering Naval patrol planes is one of the more unlikely of the original astronaut class, and he offers up his own perspectives on what has become a compelling body of American folklore (thanks largely to Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff and the memoirs of other participants). While the account of NASA's infancy seems quaint, its officialdom often comes off as nothing short of cutthroat, perhaps inspiring the pioneering spaceman to the book's final adventures exploring a distinctly different frontier--the bottom of the ocean--as part of the Navy's endurance-minded SeaLab program. --Jerry McCulley [via]
More editions of For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut:
Gemini : Steps to the Moonby David ShaylerISBN 1852334053 (1-85233-405-3)
Softcover, Springer
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Gemini : Steps to the Moon'More editions of Gemini : Steps to the Moon:
Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8by Robert ZimmermanISBN 1568581181 (1-56858-118-1)
Hardcover, Basic Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8'Book summary:It was Christmas Eve 1968. And the astronauts of Apollo 8 - Commander Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders - were participants in a mission that took them faster (24,000 mph) and farther from the earth (240,000 miles) than any human had ever traveled. Apollo 8 was the mission that broke humanity's absolute bond to the earth: it was the first manned vehicle to leave the earth's orbit. Confined within a tiny spaceship, the astronauts were aided in their journey by a computer less powerful than one of today's handheld calculators. Their mission was not only a triumph of engineering, but also an enduring moment in history. The words these three men spoke from lunar orbit reverberated through American society, changing our culture in ways no one predicted. [via]
The Heavens And the Earth: A Political History of the Space Ageby Walter A. McDougallISBN 159740165X (1-59740-165-X)
Hardcover, Acls History E-Book Project
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heavens And the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age'More editions of The Heavens And the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age:
-
I Want to Be an Astronautby Byron BartonISBN 0064432807 (0-06-443280-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'I Want to Be an Astronaut'Book summary:Blast-off! Up into the shy goes the space shuttle. Into orbit, the astronauts get a taste of ready-to-eat food, experience zero gravity, go for space walks, and even fix a satellite. It's fun to fly aboard the shuttle...and then come back to earth.
A young girl declares her longing to fly on the shuttle into outer space. The familiar acts of eating, sleeping, and working become intense and special as she and the rest of the crew go about their business. The illustrations positively glow in this simple, lyrical picture book that will have nearly everyone off and flying. SLJ.Notable Children's Book of 1988 (ALA) [via]
1988 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)
Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1988 (NYT)
Oustanding Science Trade Books for Children 1988 (NSTA/CBC)More editions of I Want to Be an Astronaut:
If You Were an Astronautby Dinah L. MocheISBN 0307118967 (0-307-11896-7)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'If You Were an Astronaut'More editions of If You Were an Astronaut:
John Glenn : A Memoirby John Glenn, Nick TaylorISBN 0553581570 (0-553-58157-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'John Glenn : A Memoir'More editions of John Glenn : A Memoir:
John Glenn Set : A Memoirby John Glenn, Nick TaylorISBN 0553110748 (0-553-11074-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'John Glenn Set : A Memoir'More editions of John Glenn Set : A Memoir:
-
Kinsman Sagaby Ben BovaISBN 0380793172 (0-380-79317-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kinsman Saga'Book summary:Hero or Killer?
In a startling future that's coming closer every year, Chet Kinsman is an astronaut ace who has done everything in space--including committying the first murder. It's a secret he can never escape, not even on the Moon, where he's head of the first U.S. lunar colony.
But suddenly, a series of shocking yet strangely inevitable circumstances forces Kinsman to confront his hidden past and decide Earth's destiny. In a desperate countdown to nuclear annihilation, Kinsman struggles against a deadly paradox: if he rescues the world, he may end up destroying himself.Hero or Killer?
In a startling future that's coming closer every year, Chet Kinsman is an astronaut ace who has done everything in space---including committing the first murder. It's a secret he can never escape, not even on the Moon, where he's head of the first U.S. lunar colony.
But suddenly, a series of shocking yet strangely inevitable circumstances forces Kinsman to confront his hidden past and decide Earth's destiny. In a desperate countdown to nuclear annihilation, Kinsman struggles against a deadly paradox: if he rescues the world, he may end up destroying himself. [via]
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Spaceby Don Davis, Eugene CernanISBN 0312263511 (0-312-26351-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space'More editions of The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space:
Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey into the Unknownby Bruce Henderson, Gordon CooperISBN 0060194162 (0-06-019416-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey into the Unknown'More editions of Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey into the Unknown:
-
Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey into the Unknownby Gordon Cooper, Bruce HendersonISBN 0061098779 (0-06-109877-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey into the Unknown'Book summary:One of the original Mercury 7 astronauts tells his life story and offers deeply-held views on the possibility of contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. [via]
More editions of Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey into the Unknown:
Living in Spaceby Zoe Wray, Katie Daynes, Christyan FoxISBN 0794503012 (0-7945-0301-2)
Softcover, Edc Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Living in Space'More editions of Living in Space:
-
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13by Jim Lovell, Kluger JeffreyISBN 0395670292 (0-395-67029-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13'Book summary:In April 1970, during the glory days of the Apollo space program, NASA sent Navy Captain Jim Lovell and two other astronauts on America's fifth mission to the moon. Only fifty-five hours into the flight of Apollo 13, disaster struck: a mysterious explosion rocked the ship, and soon its oxygen and power began draining away. Commander Lovell and his crew watched in alarm as the cockpit grew darker, the air grew thinner, and the instruments winked out one by one. The full story of the moon shot that almost ended in catastrophe has never been told, but now Lovell and coauthor Jeffrey Kluger bring it to vivd life. What begins as a smooth flight is transformed into a hair-raising voyage from the moment Lovell calls out, "Houston, we've got a problem." Minutes after the explosion, the astronauts are forced to abandon the main ship for the lunar module, a tiny craft designed to keep two men alive for just two days. But there are three men aboard, and they are four days from home. As the hours tick away, the narrative shifts from the crippled spacecraft to Mission Control, from engineers searching desperately for solutions to Lovell's wife and children praying for his safe return. The entire nation watches as one crisis after another is met and overcome. By the time the ship splashes down in the Pacific, we understand why the heroic effort to rescue Lovell and his crew is considered by many to be NASA's finest hour. This riveting book puts the reader right in the spacecraft during one of the worst disasters in the history of space exploration. Written with all the color and drama of the best fiction, Lost Moon is the true story of a thrilling adventure and an astonishing triumph over nearly impossible odds. It was a major Oscar(R)-nominated motion picture directed by Ron Howard and starred Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon. [via]
More editions of Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13:
-
A Man on the Moonby Andrew ChaikinISBN 0140272011 (0-14-027201-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Man on the Moon'Book summary:A decade in the making, this book is based on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with each of the twenty-four moon voyagers, as well as those who contributed their brain power, training and teamwork on Earth. In his preface Chaikin writes, "We touched the face of another world and became a people without limits."
What follows are thrilling accounts of such remarkable experiences as the rush of a liftoff, the heart-stopping touchdown on the moon, the final hurdle of re-entry, competition for a seat on a moon flight, the tragic spacecraft fire, and the search for clues to the origin of the solar system on the slopes of lunar mountains.
"I've been there. Chaikin took me back."--Gene Cernan, Apollo 17 astronaut [via]More editions of A Man on the Moon:
- A Man on the Moon: ISBN 0140097066 (0-14-009706-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA - A Man on the Moon: ISBN 0783556756 (0-7835-5675-6)
Hardcover, Warner Books Inc - A Man on the Moon: ISBN 0783556772 (0-7835-5677-2)
Hardcover, Warner Books Inc - A Man on the Moon: ISBN 0783556799 (0-7835-5679-9)
Hardcover, Warner Books Inc - A Man on the Moon: ISBN 0140272011 (0-14-027201-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- A Man on the Moon: ISBN 0140097066 (0-14-009706-6)
A Man on the Moon Pt. 1: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronautsby Andrew ChaikinISBN 0670814466 (0-670-81446-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Man on the Moon Pt. 1: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts'More editions of A Man on the Moon Pt. 1: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts:
-
The Mercury 13 : The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flightby Martha Ackmann, Lynn SherrISBN 0375507442 (0-375-50744-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mercury 13 : The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight'Book summary:In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming Americas first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed by the boys club at NASA and on Capitol Hill. The USSR sent its first woman into space in 1963; the United States did not follow suit for another twenty years.
For the first time, Martha Ackmann tells the story of the dramatic events surrounding these thirteen remarkable women, all crackerjack pilots and patriots who sometimes sacrificed jobs and marriages for a chance to participate in Americas space race against the Soviet Union. In addition to talking extensively to these women, Ackmann interviewed Chuck Yeager, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, and others at NASA and in the White House with firsthand knowledge of the program, and includes here never-before-seen photographs of the Mercury 13 passing their Lovelace tests.
Despite the crushing disappointment of watching their dreams being derailed, the Mercury 13 went on to extraordinary achievement in their lives: Jerrie Cobb, who began flying when she was so small she had to sit on pillows to see out of the cockpit, dedicated her life to flying solo missions to the Amazon rain forest; Wally Funk, who talked her way into the Lovelace trials, went on to become one of the first female FAA investigators; Janey Hart, mother of eight and, at age forty, the oldest astronaut candidate, had the political savvy to steer the women through congressional hearings and later helped found the National Organization for Women.
A provocative tribute to these extraordinary women, The Mercury 13 is an unforgettable story of determination, resilience, and inextinguishable hope. [via]More editions of The Mercury 13 : The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight:
Minus Timeby Catherine BushISBN 1852424087 (1-85242-408-7)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Minus Time'More editions of Minus Time:
-
Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Moduleby Thomas J. KellyISBN 156098998X (1-56098-998-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module'Book summary:Chief engineer Thomas J. Kelly gives a firsthand account of designing, building, testing, and flying the Apollo lunar module. It was, he writes, an aerospace engineers dream job of the century. Kellys account begins with the imaginative process of sketching solutions to a host of technical challenges with an emphasis on safety, reliability, and maintainability. He catalogs numerous test failures, including propulsion-system leaks, ascent-engine instability, stress corrosion of the aluminum alloy parts, and battery problems, as well as their fixes under the ever-present constraints of budget and schedule. He also recaptures the exhilaration of hearing Apollo 11s Neil Armstrong report that The Eagle has landed, and the pride of having inadvertently provided a vital lifeboat for the crew of the disabled Apollo 13. [via]
More editions of Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module:
Moon Missions: Mankind's First Voyages to Another Worldby William F. MellbergISBN 1882663128 (1-882663-12-8)
Softcover, Plymouth Pr Ltd
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Moon Missions: Mankind's First Voyages to Another World'More editions of Moon Missions: Mankind's First Voyages to Another World:
Moon Shotby Alan Shepard, Deke SlaytonISBN 1570361673 (1-57036-167-3)
Softcover, Turner Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Moon Shot'More editions of Moon Shot:
-
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moonby Shepard, Alan B., Jr., Deke SlaytonISBN 1878685546 (1-878685-54-6)
Hardcover, Turner Publishing, Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon'Book summary:Marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first moon landing, two former astronauts tell of the intense human drama behind the lunar race between two superpowers, and of the sacrifices and risks asked of the American crew. [via]
More editions of Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon:
-
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earthby Andrew SmithISBN 0007155425 (0-00-715542-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth'Book summary:The Apollo lunar missions of the 1960s and 1970s have been called the last optimistic acts of the twentieth century. Twelve astronauts made this greatest of all journeys and were indelibly marked by it, for better or for worse. Journalist Andrew Smith tracks down the nine surviving members of this elite group to find their answers to the question "Where do you go after you've been to the Moon?"
A thrilling blend of history, reportage, and memoir, Moondust rekindles the hopeful excitement of an incandescent hour in America's past and captures the bittersweet heroism of those who risked everything to hurl themselves out of the known world -- and who were never again quite able to accept its familiar bounds.
[via]More editions of Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth:
Moonrush: Improving Life On Earth With The Moon's Resourcesby Dennis WingoISBN 1894959108 (1-894959-10-8)
Softcover, Collectors Guide Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Moonrush: Improving Life On Earth With The Moon's Resources'More editions of Moonrush: Improving Life On Earth With The Moon's Resources:
Return to Earthby Wayne Warga, Edwin E. AldrinISBN 0394488326 (0-394-48832-6)
Hardcover, Random House
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Return to Earth'More editions of Return to Earth:
-
The Right Stuffby Tom WolfeISBN 1579124585 (1-57912-458-5)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Right Stuff'Book summary:Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuff at a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism. Nixon had left the White House in disgrace, the nation was reeling from the catastrophe of Vietnam, and in 1979--the year the book appeared--Americans were being held hostage by Iranian militants. Yet it was exactly the anachronistic courage of his subjects that captivated Wolfe. In his foreword, he notes that as late as 1970, almost one in four career Navy pilots died in accidents. "The Right Stuff," he explains, "became a story of why men were willing--willing?--delighted!--to take on such odds in this, an era literary people had long since characterized as the age of the anti-hero."
Wolfe's roots in New Journalism were intertwined with the nonfiction novel that Truman Capote had pioneered with In Cold Blood. As Capote did, Wolfe tells his story from a limited omniscient perspective, dropping into the lives of his "characters" as each in turn becomes a major player in the space program. After an opening chapter on the terror of being a test pilot's wife, the story cuts back to the late 1940s, when Americans were first attempting to break the sound barrier. Test pilots, we discover, are people who live fast lives with dangerous machines, not all of them airborne.
Wolfe traces Alan Shepard's suborbital flight and Gus Grissom's embarrassing panic on the high seas (making the controversial claim that Grissom flooded his Liberty capsule by blowing the escape hatch too soon). The author also produces an admiring portrait of John Glenn's apple-pie heroism and selfless dedication. By the time Wolfe concludes with a return to Yeager and his late-career exploits, the narrative's epic proportions and literary merits are secure. Certainly The Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space program. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
More editions of The Right Stuff:
- The Right Stuff: ISBN 0553381350 (0-553-38135-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Right Stuff: ISBN 0374250324 (0-374-25032-4)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux - The Right Stuff: ISBN 0553275569 (0-553-27556-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Right Stuff: ISBN 0374250332 (0-374-25033-2)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux - The Right Stuff: ISBN 1579124585 (1-57912-458-5)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated
- The Right Stuff: ISBN 0553381350 (0-553-38135-0)
-
Russian Spacesuitsby A. Ingemar Skoog, I. P. Abramov, Ingemar SkoogISBN 185233732X (1-85233-732-X)
Softcover, Springer Verlag
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Russian Spacesuits'Book summary:This is the very first inside story of a key part of the Soviet manned space programme, detailing the development of Soviet/Russian spacesuits. The authors, as participants in the programme, provide details of events, previously unknown in the West, including their technical development. These space suits were an important part of the many Soviet firsts in the space race Yuri Gagarins flight, Valentina Tereskova, the first woman in space, the first space walk by Alexei Leonov, and the first transfer on orbit from one spacecraft to another. All previous books on Soviet manned space flights focus on the spacecraft and cosmonaut teams. This book provides a total overview of the successful Soviet/Russian development of space suits and subsequent space walks from Vostok to MIR and ISS. [via]
More editions of Russian Spacesuits:
Schirra's Spaceby Wally Schirra, Richard N. BillingsISBN 1557507929 (1-55750-792-9)
Softcover, Naval Inst Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Schirra's Space'Book summary:Irreverent, provocative, and filled with fascinating anecdotes, this autobiography offers a revealing inside look at the early days of space flight. [via]
-
Sea of Tranquillityby Paul RussellISBN 0312303726 (0-312-30372-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Sea of Tranquility'Book summary:The highly praised author of The Salt Point and Boys of Life offers his most ambitious novel yet--a work that evokes comparisons with that of Anne Tyler and Richard Russo, as it "tracks the disintegration of a picture-perfect American family across two momentous decades of time and immense distances of space, literal and emotional" (Boston Globe). [via]
Sky Walking: An Astronaut's Memoirby Thomas D. JonesISBN 0060884363 (0-06-088436-3)
Softcover, Collins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Sky Walking: An Astronaut's Memoir'More editions of Sky Walking: An Astronaut's Memoir:
Spaceby James A. MichenerISBN 0449203794 (0-449-20379-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Space'Book summary:In his dramatic and compelling way of bringing history to life, Michener now tells the thrilling story a a 20th-century space development. 2 cassettes. [via]
Space: A History of Space Exploration in Photographsby Andrew Chaikin, James A. LovellISBN 1552979873 (1-55297-987-3)
Softcover, Firefly Books Ltd
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Space: A History of Space Exploration in Photographs'More editions of Space: A History of Space Exploration in Photographs:
Spaceby Moira Butterfield, Nick Lipscombe, Gary BigginISBN 1564586820 (1-56458-682-0)
Softcover, Dk Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Space'More editions of Space:
Space : The Final Frontier: A History of Space Exploration in Photographsby Andrew ChaikinISBN 1842224980 (1-84222-498-0)
Hardcover, Carlton Books, Limited
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Space : The Final Frontier: A History of Space Exploration in Photographs'More editions of Space : The Final Frontier: A History of Space Exploration in Photographs:
Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Raceby David Scott, Alexei Leonov, Neil Armstrong, Tom HanksISBN 0312308655 (0-312-30865-5)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race'More editions of Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race:
Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Raceby Neil Armstrong, Christine Toomey, Alexei LeonovISBN 0312308663 (0-312-30866-3)
Softcover, Griffin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race'More editions of Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race:
U.S. Space Gear: Outfitting the Astronautby Lillian D. KozloskiISBN 1560983825 (1-56098-382-5)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'U.S. Space Gear: Outfitting the Astronaut'More editions of U.S. Space Gear: Outfitting the Astronaut:
We Have Captureby Michael Cassutt, Tom StaffordISBN 1588341011 (1-58834-101-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'We Have Capture'More editions of We Have Capture:
We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Raceby Michael Cassutt, Thomas P. StaffordISBN 1588340708 (1-58834-070-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race'More editions of We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race:
We Reach the Moonby John N. WilfordISBN 0393063747 (0-393-06374-7)
Hardcover, Norton
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'We Reach the Moon'More editions of We Reach the Moon:
![First on the Moon. a Voyage With Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins [And] Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., (0316051608) by Armstrong, Neil](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ybJnmPaoL._SL160_.jpg "First on the Moon. a Voyage With Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins [And] Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., (0316051608) by Armstrong, Neil")
Italian
-
Bonifacio VIII, I Caetani E La Storia Del Lazio: Atti Del Convegno Di Studi Storici Roma, Palazzo Caetani, 30 Novembre 2000, Latina, Palazzo M, 1 Dicembre 2000, Sermoneta, Castello Caetani, 2 Dicembre 2000by Fondazione Camillo Caetani, Richard Gilly NixonISBN 0000000000 (0-00-000000-0)
Hardcover, L'Erma Di Bretschneider
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bonifacio VIII, I Caetani E La Storia Del Lazio: Atti Del Convegno Di Studi Storici Roma, Palazzo Caetani, 30 Novembre 2000, Latina, Palazzo M, 1 Dicembre 2000, Sermoneta, Castello Caetani, 2 Dicembre 2000'Book summary:259 p. 23 cm. First edition. Blue cloth hardcover. Simone Micheline Bodin Graziani (1925-), known professionally as Bettina, was a leading French fashion model of the 1950s and an early muse to the fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy. He named his first collection after her in 1952, and designed a perfume bottle based on her. When engaged to Aly Khan, a playboy and UN Ambassador, they were in a car accident that killed Khan an Bettina's unborn child. The experience inspired her to write this memoir. [via]
More editions of Bonifacio VIII, I Caetani E La Storia Del Lazio: Atti Del Convegno Di Studi Storici Roma, Palazzo Caetani, 30 Novembre 2000, Latina, Palazzo M, 1 Dicembre 2000, Sermoneta, Castello Caetani, 2 Dicembre 2000:
Spanish
Diarios De Las Estrellas / Star Diariesby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 8420659746 (84-206-5974-6)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Diarios De Las Estrellas / Star Diaries'More editions of Diarios De Las Estrellas / Star Diaries:
Polish
Dzienniki Gwiazdoweby Stanisaw LemISBN 830800847X (83-08-00847-X)
Hardcover, Wydawn. Literackie
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Dzienniki Gwiazdowe'More editions of Dzienniki Gwiazdowe:
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}