Burrough, Bryan
NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir

On February 12, 1997, two Russian cosmonauts joined an American astronaut on Board the only permanent manned outpost in space, the dilapidated eleven-year-old Mir space Station. It was to be a routine mission, the fourth of seven trips to Mir that NASA astronauts would take as "dress rehearsals" for the two countries' partnership in a new International Space Station they were building back on Earth. But there had been bad omens: a Moscow psychic who predicted a mysterious disaster; a Russian doctor who warned that the crew was psychologically incompatible. Within two weeks the omens were borne out, as the three men were suddenly forced to fight the worst fire in space history.

This was only the beginning of what would become the most dangerous mission in the thirty-six-year history of manned space travel - an epic, six-month misadventure that would climax in the most harrowing accident man has faced in space since Apollo 13. In Dragonfly, bestselling author Bryan Burrough tells for the first time the incredible true story of how a joint Russian-American crew narrowly survived almost every trauma an astronaut could imagine: fire, power blackouts, chemical leaks, docking failures, nail-biting spacewalks, and constant mechanical breakdowns, all climaxing in a dramatic midspace collision that left everyone on board scrambling for their lives.
Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the cosmonauts, astronauts, Russian and American ground Controllers, psychologists, and scientists involved, Dragonfly is the saga of a mission as fraught with political and bureaucratic intrigues as any Washington potboiler. Using never-before-released internal NASA memoranda, flight logs, and debriefings, Burrough vividly portrays an American space program in which many astronauts refuse to raise safety concerns for fear they will be frozen out of future missions. It offers an unprecedented look inside the rattletrap Russian space program, where the desperate thirst for hard currency leads to safety shortcuts and exhausted, puppetlike cosmonauts endure truly inhuman pressures from their unfeeling, all-powerful masters on the ground.
In Dragonfly, for the first time, the American astronauts who journeyed to Mir speak out bluntly about the failings of the program, from the rigors of training at Russia's Star City military base to the slap-dash experiments they were required to perform in space. Yet through it all the men and women of the Russian and American programs persevered, forging friendships that will serve them well as the two countries prepare for the first launches of the International Space Station in late 1998. Theirs is a classic story of a triumph over adversity, destined to be one of the most enduring and widely celebrated adventure stories of our time.

Softcover
528 Seiten / pages
photos
very good condition, with a name sticker of the previous owner
New York - 1998 - HarperCollins Publishers
Art.Nr. 25618

Contents
Commander's Christmas Message
MAC's Heritage
Mid-Air!
Turboprops Are Quick
C.R. Terror Calendar
Are You Straight and Level?
Good Show
A Day for the Jolly Creens
Safety in the 89th
C.R. Terror
Cut-out C-141
Short Snorts
The MAC Flyer 1969 Index
The Analyzer

magazine, large format
31 Seiten / pages
photos and illustrations
used appearance, some tears in cover
Scott AFB, Illinois - 1969 - MAC - Military Airlift Command
Art.Nr. 25573

Kennedy, Gregory P
From the Series "World Explorers"

With an Introduction Essay by Michael Collins, Command Module Pilot, Apollo 11

"Our great-grandchildren will read and study about the birth of a new era, how a trail to the endless universe was blazed by the children of the Earth."
- Cosmonaut Gherman Titov

By today's standards it was a primitive craft - a crude-looking spherical object just large enough to hold a single human passenger. Thrown into outer space by a small booster rocket, it orbited the earth once and then fell back through the atmosphere like a spent cannonball. At 26,000 feet a man was violently ejected from the sphere; a parachute blossomed above him and he floated gently down to the ground. The date was April 12, 1961, and the man's name Yury Gagarin - would thenceforward be mentioned in conjunction with the names of such explorers as Columbus and Magellan, Marco Polo and Robert Peary, for Cosmonaut Gagarin was the first human to journey beyond the boundary of the earth's atmosphere, and a new age of discovery had begun. The men and women who followed Gagarin in those exhilarating and perilous first years of space exploration, astronauts such as Alan Shepard and John Glenn and cosmonauts such as Gherman Titov and Valentina Tereshkova, were the first to venture into the new, infinite frontier, and their experiences forever changed our vision of ourselves and the tiny planet that is our home.

Hardcover
112 Seiten / pages
with many photos
very good condition, with a name sticker of the previous owner
New York - Philadelphia - 1991 - Chelsea House Publishers
Art.Nr. 25633

Burgess, Colin (Autor), Kate Doolan (), Eugene A. Cernan (Vorwort)
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Introduction
Acknowledgments
1. A Routine Training Flight
- Captain Theodore Cordy Freeman, USAF
2. Gemini Twins
- Elliot McKay See Jr. and Captain Charles Arthur Bassett ll, USAF
3. Countdown to Disaster
- Lieutenant Colonel Virgil Ivan Grissom, USAF
- Lieutenant Colonel Edward Higgins White II, USAF; and
- Lieutenant Commander Roger Bruce Chaffee, USN
4. By the Light of a Soviel Moon
- Russia's Cosmonauts
5. A Lonely Stretch of Road
- Major Edward Galen Givens jr, USAF
6. "Mayday, Mayday!"
- Major Clifton Curtis Williams Jr., USMC
Epilogue
References
Index

Hardcover
272 Seiten / pages
photos
good condition, with a name sticker of the previous owner
Lincoln - London - 2003 - University of Nebraska Press
Art.Nr. 25644

Spangenburg, Ray - Moser, Kit
From the Series "Out of this World"

The books in the Out of this World series will give you the opportunity to take an in-depth look at the work of the scientists and engineers who have dedicated their lives to studying what lies beyond Earth's protective atmosphere. Read about the race to the Moon, see stunning Images of Jupiter and its many moons, find out what might happen If a large asteroid hits Earth, learn about the search for life on Mars, and much more.

Hardcover
128 Seiten / pages
photos and illustrations
very good condition, with a name sticker of the previous owner
USA - 2000 - Grolier Publishinng
Art.Nr. 25637

Ride, Sally K. (NASA Astronaut)
CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Leadership in Space
Strategie Option Development
Leadership Initiatives
- Mission to Planet Earth
- Exploration of the Solar System
- Outpost on the Moon
- Humans to Mars
Programmatic Assessment
Evaluation of Initiatives
Conclusion
Additional Studies
References
Picture Credits
Acknowledgements

Softcover, large format
63 Seiten / pages
Photos
very good condition, with a name sticker of the previous owner
Washington D.C. - 1987 - NASA
Art.Nr. 25647

hardcover with dust jacket, large format, slipcased
160 Seiten / pages
many excellent photos
very good condition, with a name sticker of the previous owner
Biel, Switzerland
Omega
Art.Nr. 25626

Stafford, Thomas P. - Cassutt, Michael
What an amazing career. Tom Stafford attained the highest speed ever reached by a test pilot (28,547 mph), carried a cosmonaut’s coffin with Soviet Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, led the team that designed the sequence of missions leading to the original lunar landing, and drafted the original specifications for the B-2 stealth bomber on a piece of hotel stationery. But his crowning achievement was surely his role as America’s unofficial space ambassador to the Soviet Union during the darkest days of the Cold War.

In this lively memoir written with Michael Cassutt, Stafford begins by recounting his early successes as a test pilot, Gemini and Apollo astronaut, and USAF general. As President Nixon's stand-in at the 1971 Soviet funeral for three cosmonauts, he opened the door to the possibility of cooperation in space between Russians and Americans. Stafford's Apollo-Soyuz team was the first group of Americans to work at the cosmonaut training center, and also the first to visit Baikonur, the top-secret Soviet launch center, in 1974. His 17 July 1975 “handshake in space” with Soviet commander Alexei Leonov (who became a lifelong friend) proved to the world that the two opposing countries could indeed work successfully together.

Stafford has continued in this leadership role right up to the present, participating in designing and evaluating the Space Shuttle, Mir, and the International Space Station. He is truly an American hero who personifies the broadest spirit of exploration and cooperation.

Hardcover with dust jacket
288 Seiten / pages
photos
very good condition, with a dedication to the previous owner and a name plate
Washington - London - 2002 - Smithsonian Institution Press
Art.Nr. 25643

undated, ca. 1990

Air Seychelles Boarding Card as used on Twin-Otter flights from Mahé to Praslin Island Airport, Seychelles.

heavy, solid plastic card ca. 9 x 22 cm
1 Seiten / pages
good condition
Mahé, Seychelles - 1990 - Air Seychelles
Art.Nr. 25588

George, Michael
Humankind has always dreamed of escaping the boundaries of Earth to explore the mysteries of outer space. In the last half-century the dream has become reality.
Today, space travel benefits us in many fascinating and unbelievable ways: "Satellites help us forecast the weather and monitor the resources of our planet. People on space stations study the universe, lest scientific theories and manufacture high-technology products that cannot be
made on Earth.
Space Exploration travels back in time to the beginning of our journey into space. It also ventures into the future of space travel, where starships travel to distant stars at the speed of light.

hardcover with dust jacket, large format
40 Seiten / pages
many photos
very good condition, with a name sticker of the previous owner
Mankato, Minnesota, USA - 1992 - Creative Education
Art.Nr. 25639

Bridgeman, William - Hazard, Jaqueline
First Edition

This is the powerful and often thrilling story of a man who daily enters that lonely region beyond the speed of sound. A narrative of needle-nosed ships flying at blistering speeds, i t is also the moving testament of a man risking his life to push back the frontiers of scientific knowledge. Like St.-Exupery, Bridgeman is capable of describing the vastness and beauty of the skies. But as America's foremost experimental test pilot, he is constantly aware of the multitude of technical Information which he is called upon to use at any given instant.
After the war, Bill Bridgeman left the Navy a restless man. Seeking action, he joined Douglas Aircraft as an engineering test pilot. Soon he was asked to take over the final stages of the Skyrocket testing program. The Skyrocket, a javelin-shaped experimental ship, was a challenge to Bridgeman. The story of his day-by-day life with the plane is the substance of THE LONELY SKY.

Hardcover with dust jacket
316 Seiten / pages
photos
book very good condition, dust jacket rubbed and has some tears and missing chips.
New York - 1955 - Henry Holt and Company
Art.Nr. 21533

Knäusel, Hans G.
Vor einhundert Jahren, am 2. Juli 1900, erhob sich ein Luftschiff von 128 m Länge über den Bodensee und stand symbolhaft für den Aulbruch in ein neues Zeitalter am Himmel. Für viele Menschen verkörperte es technischen Fortschritt und die Vision einer modernen, einer besseren Welt.
Vater des Giganten war der 1838 geborene Reitergeneral Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin. 1874 findet sich die erste Eintragung über ein Luftfahrzeug in seinen Aufzeichnungen. Seither ließ ihn das Thema nicht mehr los. Anfangs waren seine Vorstellungen den meisten Zeitgenossen zu skurril. Übel verspottet, aber davon unbeirrt verfolgte er seine Idee weiter, engagierte begabte Mitarbeiter zur Ausarbeitung seiner Pläne. Das Militär als einziger potentieller Abnehmer von Luftschiffen winkte jedoch ab, und so gründete er 1898 mit Unterstützung einiger Gleichgesinnter die „Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Luftschiffahrt".
Bis es zum Bau von LZ l kam, waren viele Probleme zu überwinden, und aus wirtschaftlichen Gründen mußte es bereits nach drei Aufstiegen wieder abgewrackt werden. War es also nichts mit der großen Verheißung zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts? Graf Zeppelin ließ nicht locker. Es entstanden weitere Luftschiffe. Mit seinem vierten hoffte er, auf einer Dauerfahrt den Durchbruch zu erringen, doch der Versuch endete in einer Katastrophe. Das Ende für die Zeppeline schien gekommen, aber unerwartet ging über den inzwischen populären Grafen ein gewaltiger Spendensegen nieder. Jetzt begann die eigentliche Epoche der Zeppeline, in der sie Wirkung auf wirtschaftlicher, gesellschaftlicher und politischer Ebene zeigten. Im Rückblick liegt ihre wesentliche Bedeutung allerdings in dem von ihnen ausgehenden Schub auf die Entwicklung der Luftfahrt, die das 20. Jahrhundert geprägt hat. Mit den Großluftschiffen der dreißiger Jahre hatten die Zeppeline ihren Zenit bereits überschritten. Mit der Katastrophe von Lakehurst am 6. Mai 1937 verschwanden sie nach nicht einmal vier Jahrzehnten vom Himmel, nur in einer verklärten Erinnerung sind sie bis heute lebendig.
Der Autor geht der Entstehungsgeschichte von LZ l und der darauf folgenden Luftschiffe bis LZ 4 aus dem Jahre 1908 anhand von sorgfältig recherchierten Dokumenten nach, die zum großen Teil auch wiedergegeben werden. Die späteren Luftschiffe sind zwar nicht Thema des Buches, aber unmittelbar auf LZ l zurückzuführen, weshalb ihnen ebenso Raum gewidmet wird wie der Zeppelin-Konkurrenz, deren Einfluß auf den Grafen Zeppelin unverkennbar ist. Es wird auch die nicht enden wouende Diskussion über die Zukunft der Großluftschiffahrt angesprochen. Der Autor räumt ihr keine realistische Chance ein und untermauert dies mit einem „Kleinen Technikum der Luftschiffahrt" von Flugkapitän Hans von Schiller. Mag dieses Kapitel auch auf Erkenntnissen einer vergangenen Zeit beruhen, die Luftschiffkonstrukteure kommen um die von physikalischen Gesetzen gesteckten Grenzen auch in Zukunft nicht herum.

gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschag, Großformat
326 Seiten / pages
viele Abbildungen
sehr gut erhalten
Bonn - 2000 - Kirschbaum Verlag
Art.Nr. 25595