James E and Alcestis Oberg (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York. 1986. 2nd Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; scant shelfwear to board edges; dust soiling to textblock top; small splash stains on textblock fore edge. DJ; Very Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($16.95); slight bumping to head, tail, and tips; slight rubbing to panels. Copper paper over boards with black cloth overlay on the spine with bright copper lettering on the spine. 298 pp 8vo. The time will soon come when permanently occupied space stations are a reality. This book takes amateur spacefarers on a flight to the future where they can experience space with all its emotions, terrors, and surprises as perceived and interpreted by those who have been there. It will be shown how we have been changed as a species by space travel and will be in the future- presenting a composite portrait from the views of real space pioneers, psychologists, philosophers, engineers and biologists. A serious look at how people will conquer space and be altered by the experience. A clean very presentable copy in a brodart mylar jacket.…

Condition: Very Good. 298 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. ames Oberg (Red Star in Orbit, Mission to Mars, etc.) is a spaceflight engineer at Houston Mission Control; Alcestis Oberg is the author of Spacefarers of the 80s and 90s. Here they offer an engrossing and vivid account of what life is like in an earth-orbiting spacecraft. Because relatively few American space-travelers have published tales of their experiences, the Obergs lean heavily on the diaries and memoirspublished in Russia and little known hereof pioneering Soviet astronauts, notably veterans of long-term Salyut missions like Ryumin and Berezovoy. Here is the human side of life in orbit. Few readers can fail to be grippedand occasionally amusedby revelations of the immediate problems (how astronauts contend with toilets, hygiene, sleeping), their technical perils (e.g., air contamination) and the psychological hazards they face, from crewmate incompatibility to depression and homesickness for Earth. Photos. Record # 470085.…

Condition: fair to good, good. Second Printing. 24 cm, 298, illus., ink name inside front board, front board weak/reglued, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Foreword by Isaac Asimov. A look at the possibilites of actually living in space, with an epilogue onthe Challenger disaster.

Condition: very good, very good. First Printing. 24 cm, 298, illus., appendices, references, index, slight soiling to fore-edge and rear DJ. Foreword by Isaac Asimov. A look at the possibilites of actually living in space, with an epilogue on the Challenger disaster.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. First Edition. Foreword by Isaac Asimov. Large, heavy book, 298 pages. DJ glossy beneath mylar with color-illustration of explosion in space near planet on front, white spine and back, some tiny scratches and lightly soiled on back. Near Very Good DJ/Very Fine book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Foreword by Isaac Asimov. (1st) Large, heavy book, black cloth spine and sides, dark red boards, very bright orange lettering on spine, 298 pages. DJ glossy beneath mylar with stunning explosion in space near planet on front, white spine and back, list of contents on back. DJ has very tiny tear at bottom front edge. Fine+DJ/Very Fine book. …