Author: GIBSON, EDWARD
Title: Reach a Novel
Description: New York, NY: Doubleday, 1989. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0385261500. Illustrated by Michael Carroll. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly crisp and clean, but has one tiny tear to the top spine end, along with some beginning bumping. This is the author's first book. "Gibson was the science pilot of Skylab 4. The third and final crewed visit to the Skylab space station, it launched November 16, 1973, and concluded February 8, 1974. This was the longest crewed flight (84 days 1 hour 15 minutes) in the history of crewed space exploration at that time. Gibson was accompanied on the record-setting 34.5-million-mile flight by Commander Gerald P. Carr and Pilot William R. Pogue. They successfully completed 56 experiments, 26 science demonstrations, 15 subsystem detailed objectives, and 13 student investigations during their 1,214 revolutions of the Earth. They also acquired a wide variety of Earth resources observations data using Skylab's Earth resources experiment package camera and sensor array. Dr. Gibson was the crewman primarily responsible for the 338 hours of Apollo Telescope Mount operation, which made extensive observations of solar processes. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 0385261500 Modern Fiction First Edition Edward Gibson Space Travel Author's First Book Alien Encounters
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Title: Reach a Novel
Description: New York, NY: Doubleday, 1989. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0385261500. Illustrated by Michael Carroll. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly crisp and clean, but has one tiny tear to the top spine end, along with some beginning bumping. This is the author's first book. "Gibson was the science pilot of Skylab 4. The third and final crewed visit to the Skylab space station, it launched November 16, 1973, and concluded February 8, 1974. This was the longest crewed flight (84 days 1 hour 15 minutes) in the history of crewed space exploration at that time. Gibson was accompanied on the record-setting 34.5-million-mile flight by Commander Gerald P. Carr and Pilot William R. Pogue. They successfully completed 56 experiments, 26 science demonstrations, 15 subsystem detailed objectives, and 13 student investigations during their 1,214 revolutions of the Earth. They also acquired a wide variety of Earth resources observations data using Skylab's Earth resources experiment package camera and sensor array. Dr. Gibson was the crewman primarily responsible for the 338 hours of Apollo Telescope Mount operation, which made extensive observations of solar processes. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 0385261500 Modern Fiction First Edition Edward Gibson Space Travel Author's First Book Alien Encounters
Price: US$ 15.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 45588
- Book number: 45588
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