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Clauss, Francis J. (editor). SURFACE EFFECTS ON SPACECRAFT MATERIALS. FIRST SYMPOSIUM
NY 1959. Held at Palo Alto May 12 and 13, 1959, sponsored by U.S. Air Force and Lockheed. 4to., 404pp., some charts and illustrations, red cloth. Institution name stamp on front end paper. Very faint residue of glue on lower spine ends where label once was . Good Plus, light wear, no DJ. (a16978)
$25.00Baker, E. H. et al. SHELL ANALYSIS MANUAL
Springfield 1968. NASA N68-24802. The analysis of shell type space craft structures. thick 4to., 804pp., illustrations, stapled wraps. VG, some minor soiling and light wear. (a23787)
$55.00Ketchum, Harold, Ken Durbin et al (editors). JOURNAL OF SPACE FLIGHT AND THE ROCKET NEWS - 10 ISSUES 1953 (complete year)
Chicago 1953. A newsletter published by the Chicago Rocket Society for the dissemination and information about flight into interplanetary space. (The first year of publication was 1949. ) Run of 10 issues, the complete run for 1956. Issues are in original wraps . 4to., about 15-18 leaves mimeographed on one side only, stapled in yellow printed wraps (issue for Jan 1953 was published with white cover). Published monthly (10 issues per year). Condition Very Good to Fine . no owner marks. Set of 10 issues. Highly unusual journal, ostensively scientific but bordering on science fiction; full of enthusiasm and optimism about space travel including many articles on UFOS. Articles as: Recent Developments in Foreign Rockets and Guided Missiles by Norman Bowman; The Juvenation of Mars by Wayne Proell; Seven Necessary Books for Amy Manned Space Flight by M. Conley. Early work on space flight. 10 issues: (a45478)
$100.00 Kinslow, Ray. . BUMPER-PROTECTED LAMINATED SPACECRAFT MAINWALLS
Cookeville 1971. Prepared by Tennessee Technological University for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 4to., 58pp., wraps. Address label on rear wrap. Word written in ink, and Discarded stamp on front. Good, light soiling. (a47737)
$40.00 (jet propulsion) . PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH AFOSR SYMPOSIUM ON ADVANCED PROPULSION CONCEPTS VOLUME 1
1969. Sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research office of Aerospace Research. Held in Chicago, 1968. Hardcover.4to., 595pp., cloth. Depository library stamps on all fore-edges. VG. (a49373)
$45.00 (jet propulsion) . PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH AFOSR SYMPOSIUM ON ADVANCED PROPULSION CONCEPTS VOLUME 1
1972. Sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Office of Aerospace Research. AFOSR-TR 71-3128. 4to., 509pp., illustrations, wraps. Depository library on front and on title page, small ink numbers on cover. VG plus. (a49377)
$45.00 Land, Norman S. and Harland F. Scholl . SCALED LUNAR MODULE JET EROSION EXPERIMENTS
Washington 1969. National Aeronautics and Space Administration TN D-5051. 4to., 42pp., wraps. A few institution names stamped on front. Mailing label affixed to rear wrap. VG. (a49459)
$45.00 Byers, David C. . PERFORMANCE OF VARIOUS OXIDE-MAGAZINE CATHODES IN KAUFMAN THRUSTERS
Washington 1969 National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 4to., 27pp., wraps. Institution stams on front. Address label on rear. VG. (a49887)
$45.00 (rocketry) . EXPLORING IN AEROSPACE ROCKETRY. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ROCKETRY
Washington 1971. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 4to.,362pp., photo illustrations, wraps. Depository library stamps and a few numbers on front and on title page. Good, damp wrinkled. (a51590)
$60.00 Lange, Oswasld H. and Richard J. Stein . SPACE CARRIER VEHICLES DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF LAUNCHING ROCKETS
NY 1963 Academic. Octavo, 317pp., hardcover. Institution stamps on fore-edges, label at heel of spine, number stamp at lower margin of one page. Good, text clean. no dj. (a61917)
$35.00Frank, Robert G. and William F. Zimmerman. MATERIALS FOR ROCKETS AND MISSILES
NY 1959 1st Macmillan. Hardcover. Octavo, 124pp., photo illustrations, cloth. Faint indication of of label on front. Good, inner hinges cracked, no DJ. (a62030)
$25.00Cospar. TWENTY-TWO ISSUES OF COSPAR - FROM #1 MAY 1960 THRU issue #22 FEBRUARY 1965 (unbroken run)
Paris. 1960 to 1965. first edition. COSPAR. 22 issues, in English. All in wraps, staple binding, all square octavo. COSPAR was a special committee of the ICSU designed "to further on an international scale the progress of all kinds of scientific investigations which are carried out with the use of rockets or rocket-propelled vehicles." (from issue #1 Charter). Individual issues vary in length from 15 to over 100 pages. Some have drawings and diagrams, a few have some photo illustrations. All have tiny date stamp on covers, a few have owner name stamp (C. Gordon Little). Internally clean and unmarked. VG to VG plus. Group of 22 issues: (a92771)
$350.00 Maeda, K (ed) . TECHNIQUE MANUAL ON ELECTRON DENSITY AND TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS IN THE IONOSPHERE
Paris. 1964 first edition. COSPAR information bulletin no. 17. octavo wraps. 146p. VG plus. tiny date stamp on cover. (a92773)
$35.00Ketchum, Harold, Ken Durbin et al (editors). JOURNAL OF SPACE FLIGHT AND THE ROCKET NEWS - 19 loose issues February 1953 - Dec 1955
Chicago 1953, 1954, 1955 first edition. A newsletter published by the Chicago Rocket Society for the dissemination and information about flight into interplanetary space. (The first year of publication was 1949. ) 4to. wraps. Orange printed covers , about 15-18 leaves mimeographed on one side only, stapled . Published monthly (10 issues per year). Very Good to Near Fine condition. Highly unusual journal, ostensively scientific but bordering on science fiction; full of enthusiasm and optimism about space travel including many articles on UFOS. 19 issues: (a94703)
$150.00Ketchum, Harold (editor). JOURNAL OF SPACE FLIGHT AND THE ROCKET NEWS - 6 separate issues 1951 - May; 1954 July; 1955 - April , June, September, December
Chicago 195- 1955 first edition. A newsletter published by the Chicago Rocket Society for the dissemination and information about flight into interplanetary space. (The first year of publication was 1949. ) 4to. wraps. Orange printed covers , about 15-18 leaves mimeographed on one side only, stapled . Published monthly (10 issues per year). Very Good to Fine condition. Highly unusual journal, ostensively scientific but bordering on science fiction, full of enthusiasm and optimism about space travel including many articles on UFOS. 6 issues: (a94704)
$49.00