Verlag: Northwest Publishing Inc, Salt Lake City, 1993
ISBN 10: 1569011117 ISBN 13: 9781569011119
Anbieter: Frogtown Books, Inc. ABAA, Toledo, OH, USA
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A novel centered around the end of the cold war. Faint trace of tape residue on boards. Otherwise a clean, tight fine copy. Dust jacket is fine. Picture shows little white sticker affixed to spine but that is just on the glassine jacket cover. Large 8vo. Black cloth with grey cloth spine stamped in silver. 434 pp.
Verlag: Scribner, New York, 2006
ISBN 10: 0743276825 ISBN 13: 9780743276825
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. 6 1/4" X 9 1/4." His tales of arrested development amoung military flyboys working with feminist pioneers and post-doc scientists are sometimes bawdy, often hilarious, and always entertaining. Owners bookplate on front pastedown. Signed and Inscibed By The Aut.
Verlag: Silver Burdett Press, New Jersey, 1995
ISBN 10: 0382246640 ISBN 13: 9780382246647
Anbieter: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australien
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Softcover. Wimmer, Mike (illustrator). 1st Paperback Edition. Octavo Size. Very Good condition. Light wear to corners. Black & white illustrations by Mike Wimmer. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 96 pages.
Verlag: Scribner, New York - London - Toronto - Sydney, 2007
Anbieter: Antiquariat Lindbergh, Mörfelden-Walldorf, Deutschland
Softcover. Zustand: very good condition, new book. On February 1, 1978, the first group of space shuttle astronauts, twenty-nine men and six women, were introduced to the world. Among them would be history makers, including the first American woman and the first African American in space. This assembly of astronauts would carry NASA through the most tumultuous years of the space shuttle program. Four would die on Challenger. - USAF Colonel Mike Mullane was a member of this astronaut class, and Riding Rockets is his-story - told with a candor never before seen in an astronaut's memoir. Mullane strips the heroic veneer from the astronaut corps and paints them as they are - human. His tales of arrested development among military flyboys working with feminist pioneers and post-doc scientists are sometimes bawdy, often hilarious, and always entertaining. - Mullane vividly portrays every aspect of the astronaut experiencefrom telling a female technician which urinecollection condom size is a fit; to walking along a Florida beach in a last, tearful goodbye with a spouse; to a wild, intoxicating, terrifying ride into space; to hearing "Taps" played over a friend's grave. Mullane is brutally honest in his criticism of a NASA leadership whose bungling would precipitate the Challenger disaster. - Riding Rockets is a story of life in all its fateful uncertainty, of the impact of a family tragedy on a nine-year-old boy, of the revelatory effect of a machine called Sputnik, and of the life-steering powers of lust, love, and marriage. It is a story of the human experience that will resonate long after the call of "Wheel stop." 382 p. photos.