posted 02-09-2007 05:21 PM               

Oceans to Orbit tells the remarkable story of Dr. Paul Scully-Power, who became the first Australian-born person to fly into space in October, 1994. A brilliant student and accomplished athlete during his formative years, he went on to become the first oceanographer to view the world's oceans from the best vantage point of all — Earth orbit. As a youth with a passion for riding his surfboard at Sydney's northern beaches, he managed to combine a love of the ocean with his academic studies, which led him on the path to oceanography. Later he went to the United States on a Navy exchange program, where he briefed and debriefed NASA's astronaut crews on what to look for and photograph as they circled the oceans. Through a series of circumstances he was chosen to fly aboard the space shuttle Challenger on mission STS-41G.

The book is 128 pages with 71 glorious, full-color photographs and many others in black-and-white distributed throughout the text. Published in 1995 by Playright Publications, Sydney, it has long since been out of print.

A very small quantity of the hardcover edition was recently located and they are now in our possession.

Each book has been personally signed by the author, Colin Burgess (Fallen Astronauts) and Dr. Scully-Power.