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Topic: Free: Space books and publications
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edorr
Member Posts: 86
From: Chelmsford, MA
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 11-08-2021 04:20 PM
   
I am pruning my library, and offering the following books free to a good home. Contact me if interested. (Update: These are all claimed, but there is a second wave -- see listing further down in this thread.)- Launch Photography, by Ben Cooper. Amherst Media, 2019. Softcover, 128 pages, bump on lower spine, otherwise excellent condition. (claimed)
- Missions from JPL, by Robert Aster. October 2009. Softcover, 150 pages, excellent condition. (claimed)
- Quest - The History of Spaceflight Magazine, Volume 13, Number 1 (2006). Somehow I ended up with an extra copy, and hate to just toss it. It's in excellent condition, 64 pages. (claimed)
- Project Gemini Flight Controller Orientation. DVD by Spacecraft Films. I apparently ordered a second copy by mistake. Still sealed. (claimed)
- Reach - A novel by Edward Gibson. Doubleday, 1989. Hardcover, 334 pages, very good condition. (claimed)
These are all related to Soviet/Russian spaceflight: - I am Eagle, by Gherman Titov and Martin Caidin. Bobbs Merrill, 1962. Hardcover, 212 pages, good condition. (claimed)
- Diary of a Cosmonaut: 211 Days in Space, by Valentin Lebedev. Phytoresource Research Information Service, 1983. Hardcover, 352 pages, very good condition. (claimed)
- Laika. A graphic novel by Nick Abadzis. First Second, 2007. Softcover, 206 pages, excellent condition. (claimed)
- Handbook of Soviet Manned Space Flight, by Nicholas L. Johnson. Volume 48 of AAS Science and Technology Series. Univelt, 1980. Softcover, 461 pages, ex-lib, good condition. (claimed)
- Rockets & Revolution: A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight, by Michael G. Smith. University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Hardcover, 431 pages, excellent condition, with excellent dustjacket. (claimed)
- My Blue Planet, by G. S. Titov. A NASA Technical Translation, F-811. October 1975. Softcover, 226 pages, faded spine, otherwise very good. (claimed)
- "I Feel Sorry for Our Guys", General N. Kaminin's Space Diaries. A NASA Technical Translation, TT-21658. Photocopy, 146 pages. (claimed)
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randy
Member Posts: 2513
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 11-08-2021 04:54 PM
I need your mail address. There are several items I'm interested in. They are: Project Gemini Flight Controller Orientation DVD, I am Eagle, Launch Photography, and Missions from JPL. Thanks.
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Jurg Bolli
Member Posts: 1107
From: Albuquerque, NM
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 11-08-2021 05:00 PM
Gene, I am very interested in the "Diary of a Cosmonaut" and the Project Gemini DVD and the Quest magazine. Thanks.(I do not have any email address, just like Randy.) |
edorr
Member Posts: 86
From: Chelmsford, MA
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 11-08-2021 05:51 PM
Sorry folks, I didn't realize my profile was set to hide my email address. My bad! I've corrected that. |
randy
Member Posts: 2513
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 11-08-2021 06:08 PM
Email re-sent. |
ptj4403
Member Posts: 52
From: Noblesville, Indiana, USA
Registered: Nov 2013
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posted 11-08-2021 07:53 PM
I would be interested in "Reach: A Novel" by Edward Gibson if you still have it. Thank you. |
randy
Member Posts: 2513
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 11-15-2021 01:09 PM
Got my items today. Thanks! |
ptj4403
Member Posts: 52
From: Noblesville, Indiana, USA
Registered: Nov 2013
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posted 11-15-2021 11:22 PM
Thank you, I got mine in mail today. |
fredtrav
Member Posts: 1778
From: Birmingham AL
Registered: Aug 2010
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posted 11-16-2021 12:38 PM
Got mine today. Thanks Gene. |
Jurg Bolli
Member Posts: 1107
From: Albuquerque, NM
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 11-16-2021 02:48 PM
Mine arrived today, thanks a lot, Gene, this is very generous of you. |
edorr
Member Posts: 86
From: Chelmsford, MA
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 11-16-2021 03:15 PM
The second wave -- again, books free to a good home. Email me if interested.
- Fifty Years on the Space Frontier: Halo Orbits, Comets, Asteroids, and More, by Robert W. Farquhar. Outskirts Press, 2011. Softcover, 450 pages, excellent condition. (claimed)
- The Human Archaeology of Space: Lunar, Planetary and Interstellar Relics of Exploration, by P.J. Capelotti. McFarland & Company, 2010. Softcover, 190 pages, excellent condition. (claimed)
- Entering Space: An Astronaut's Odyssey, by Joseph P. Allen. Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1984. Softcover, 240 pages, remaindered but very good condition. (claimed)
- To Space & Back, by Sally Ride. Beech Tree Books, 1986. Softcover, 96 pages, good condition. (claimed)
- Off the Planet, by Jerry Linenger. McGraw-Hill, 2000. Hardcover, 260 pages, like new with dustjacket.
- Mission, by Bill Nelson (yes, *that* Bill Nelson). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. Hardcover, 320 pages, very good condition with good dustjacket. (claimed)
- Story: The Way of Water, by Anne Lenehan. The Communications Agency, 2004. Hardcover, 468 pages, Excellent condition with dustjacket. Signed by Story Musgrave and Anne Linehan. (claimed)
- Space Shuttle: The History of Developing the National Space Transportation System - The Beginning Through STS-50, by Dennis Jenkins. Motorbooks International, 1992. Hardcover, 290+ pages, excellent condition. (claimed)
- Handbook of Soviet Manned Space Flight, by Nicholas L. Johnson. Volume 48 of AAS Science and Technology Series. Univelt, 1980. Softcover, 461 pages, ex-lib, good condition. (claimed)
The following are magazines or magazine-format: - X-Planes: Great Pilots Tell Their Stories. Air & Space Smithsonian. 104 pages, excellent condition. (claimed)
- Space Shuttle: 1981-2011 - Stories from 30 Years of Exploration. Air & Space Smithsonian. 104 pages, excellent condition. (claimed)
- National Geographic Magazine, October 1986. Cover article: Soviets in Space - Are They Ahead? (claimed)
- One Giant Leap for Mankind: Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the First Lunar Walk. Rococo International, 1993. 98 pages, excellent condition. Glossy, heavily illustrated, 15 articles, introduction by Eugene Cernan. (claimed)
- U.S. Human Spaceflight: A Record of Achievement, 1961-1998. NASA Monographs in Aerospace History #9. 64 pages, very good with slight scuffing to cover. (claimed)
- Omega Lifetime, Issue 4, 2009: Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the First Moon Landing. 114 pages, about half of which consist of 5 articles related to spaceflight; very good condition. Published by Omega watch company. (claimed)
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fredtrav
Member Posts: 1778
From: Birmingham AL
Registered: Aug 2010
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posted 11-21-2021 07:26 PM
Again thanks. I am reading the Kaminin space diary now. It is a very interesting perspective that I had not heard of or seen before. |
Guswastheman
Member Posts: 150
From: Gresham, OR
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 11-24-2021 06:23 PM
Thanks! I received my requested book today and it looked brand new and was packaged better than Barnes & Noble. |
Dave_Johnson
Member Posts: 137
From:
Registered: Feb 2014
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posted 11-27-2021 06:12 PM
Gene, received the book I requested today, very well packaged. Thanks again! |
randy
Member Posts: 2513
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 11-29-2021 12:37 PM
Got the books today. Thanks again! | |
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