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[APOLLO PROGRAM]. "HISTORY OF ROCKETRY AND SPACE TRAVEL," SIGNED BY 14 ASTRONAUTS AND TWO COSMONAUTS
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6,000 - 9,000 USD
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描述
- INCLUDING THE FIRST MAN TO WALK IN SPACE
VON BRAUN, WERNHER and FREDERICK I. ORDWAY III. History of Rocketry and Space Travel. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1969. xi, 276 pp. 11 by 9 inches. Cloth with dust jacket. Revised Edition.
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SIGNED and INSCRIBED with their individual space flight(s) on the half title page by: BUZZ ALDRIN, ALAN BEAN, GENE CERNAN, SCOTT CARPENTER, GORDON COOPER, WALT CUNNINGHAM, CHARLIE DUKE, RICHARD GORDON, FRED HAISE, EDGAR MITCHELL, WALLY SCHIRRA, TOM STAFFORD, PAUL WEITZ and AL WORDEN. Additionally SIGNED by ALEXEI LEONOV (the first man to walk in space and Soviet Commander of ASTP) and VALERY KUBASOV (Soviet Flight Engineer of ASTP).
SIGNED by co-author FREDERICK I. ORDWAY on the title page.
This revised edition of the original 1966 work has details of the just completed Apollo 11 lunar landing. Still included are the thousand years of rocketry and Man’s desire to travel to other worlds. The efforts of Tsiolkovsky, Oberth, Goddard and others are described, plus the rapid development of the A4 (V2) rocket by Germany during World War II. The Apollo flights which enabled the first lunar landing complete this extraordinary work.
SIGNED by co-author FREDERICK I. ORDWAY on the title page.
This revised edition of the original 1966 work has details of the just completed Apollo 11 lunar landing. Still included are the thousand years of rocketry and Man’s desire to travel to other worlds. The efforts of Tsiolkovsky, Oberth, Goddard and others are described, plus the rapid development of the A4 (V2) rocket by Germany during World War II. The Apollo flights which enabled the first lunar landing complete this extraordinary work.