exploring unknown volume cosmos de john logsdon (11 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Subtitled "Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program." Documents from 1953 to 1999, plus essays by John E. Naugle and John M. Logsdon, Amy Paige Snyder, and Nancy Grace, Roman. Green cloth-covered boards w/large gilded titling, near new condition; Tight and Clean; Near new space photo illustrated DJ; Professional book seller with storefront since 1975. All orders carefully packaged and promptly shipped.

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

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+. First Edition. Light rubbing and toning overall. International shipping billed at cost. Photos upon request. ; NASA S-2001-4407; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 796 pages.

Condición: Good. This book has been examined carefully and the cover shows some wear. There may be light highlighting or writing with small bends or creases. hardcoverUsed - Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Dust jacket in very good condition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Clean and unmarked pages. Moderate loosening to binding. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition. Crisp and unmarked in full cloth binding, NF/NF. xxviii, 796pp. Very nice dust jacket now in a new mylar cover. Size: 4to - over 9" - 12" Tall.

hardcover. Condición: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. Tall 8vo, 796 pp.

Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: very good. Presumed first edition/first printing. VOLUME V ONLY. xxviii, [1], 796 pages. 25 cm. Illustrations. Glossary. Biographical Appendix. Index. Slight wear and soiling to DJ. This is part of the NASA History Series. John M. Logsdon is Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the National Air and Space Museum; From 1987 to mid-2008, Logsdon was Director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, where he is also Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs. Dr. Logsdon's research interests focus on the policy and historical aspects of U.S. and international space activities. Dr. Logsdon is the author of The Decision to Go to the Moon: Project Apollo and the National Interest and is general editor of the eight-volume series Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program. He has written numerous articles and reports on space policy and history. He is frequently consulted by the electronic and print media for his views on space issues. This volume is the fifth in a series that had its origins in the 1990s. The individuals involved in initiating the series and producing the first two volumes have been acknowledged in those volumes. An exception must be made for NASA Chief Historian Roger D. Launius, who has become not only a strong supporter of this series but also an essential collaborator in its implementation. Despite the political imperatives which have caused America's civil space program to direct most of its budget towards human spaceflight, there is no doubt that the creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has also inspired a global revolution in scientific knowledge. For more than four decades, NASA has pioneered the exploration of the 'Final Frontier', opening a window on the Universe that has transformed our vision of the planets, stars, and galaxies. As befits an agency created to inform and inspire the American people, much of this endeavor, the triumphs and the tragedies, has been pursued in the full glare of global publicity. However, despite such remarkable openness, NASA's history has inevitably included less-publicized episodes of controversy and dissension. Reports and memoranda written by some of the key participants in these political and managerial battles, many published for the first time, stand out as the gems in this fascinating collection of more than 120 documents recounting the history and development of the US space-science program. These snapshots, recalling some of the most significant moments in NASA's space-science enterprise, are organized into three sections. The first chapter is devoted to the origins and early organization of US space science, beginning with the program to explore the ionosphere and the response to the launch of Sputnik I. The remaining chapters cover NASA's solar-system exploration efforts and the evolution of space-based astronomy and astrophysics. Particularly fascinating are the documents from the 1980s that detail the desperate struggles by NASA's leaders to maintain a program of solar-system exploration at a time when the agency's budget was being slashed and political support was waning. Among them is a proposal from NASA administrator James Beggs to terminate the entire planetary program, thereby making JPL surplus to NASA's needs. Another revelation is an illustrated 'comic book', produced in 1984 by George Field of the National Research Council, to explain to government accountants and politicians the necessity of pursuing all four of NASA's proposed 'great observatories'.

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Couverture rigide. Condición: Bon. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Bon. Format:17,5/25 SELECTED DOCUMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE U.S. CIVIL PROGRAM VOL V: EXPLORING THE COSMOS . THE NASA HISTORY SERIE NASA SP-2001-4407 HEAVY BOOK.