Isbn: 9780025455900 - beachheads in space: a blueprint for the future (4 resultados)

Hard Cover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Printing. Jacket is in brodart, light wear. Boards have light wear. Usual library/discard markings. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good -. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. (1983), 274pp, top corners bumped, some edgewear & rubbing to dj.

Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Printing [Stated]. Format is approximately 6 inches by 8.6 inches. xi, [1], 274, [2] pages. Foreword by James Michener. Cover has some wear, tears and soiling. This covers from the Space shuttle to space stations and beyond. Jerry Grey is the Former Director of Science and Technology Policy for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He was professor of aerospace science at Princeton University for 15 years, and has written multiple science books. In 1982 he was the Deputy Secretary-General for the United Nations Second Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. This work chronicles he expansion of the exploration of space, pointing to a future that was scarcely imaginable at the time this book was written. It showed how that future was being built, step by step, upon what had already been learned and what people know they could do. It had become clear that space was more than something to travel through. It offered opportunities for long-range communications, remote-sensing and Earth observation. It offered the opportunity to develop new manufacturing processes that would enable the creation of materials impossible to form on Earth. The author felt that for sound economic, military, scientific and sociological reasons, the development of the next generation of space stations was inevitable. Alan Brooks (Jacket Design) (ilustrador). …

Condición: Good. Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustandsangabe altersgemäß. Sofortversand aus Deutschland. Artikel wiegt maximal 1000g. 274 Seiten. In englischer Sprache. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, wenig eingerissen sowie leicht verfärbt, Einband gut.