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Cod. 2290E

EUR 55,00

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Renato Dicati

STORIA DELL'ASTRONOMIA
ATTRAVERSO I FRANCOBOLLI

440 pp. - more than 1500 colour ill. - softbound - 2nd ed. 2011
Italian text

HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
THROUGH POSTAGE STAMPS

The full history of astronomy, from its origins to the discoveries effected thanks to the space telescopes, through postage stamps and postal documents that many countries have devoted to the sky, illustrated with over 1,500 colour images.

Peculiar work, unique in its kind, very interesting and educational, for lovers and stamp collectors but also for students and teachers and for all those who are interested in astronomy and in the exploration of the cosmos.

CONTENTS

The origins of astronomy - Ancient astronomy - Astronomy by the Greeks - Astronomy in the Medieval Age - The revival of astronomy - Copernican revolution - Galileo and the telescope - Mechanisms in the Universe - The development of instruments - Observations and discoveries in the Solar System - The advent of astrophysics - The discovery of the Universe - New astronomy - The exploration of the Solar System - Bibliography - Analytical index

Cod. 2488E

EUR 45,00

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Renato Dicati

STAMPING
THROUGH
ASTRONOMY

XI+376 pp. - more than 1300 colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2013
English text

World postage stamps and other postal documents presented through a historical and philatelic survey of astronomy, its development, some related topics on space exploration, instrumentation, theories, and observations.

It contains more than 1300 colour reproductions of postage stamps relating to the history of astronomy, ranging from the earliest observations of the sky to modern research conducted with satellites and space probes. Many stamps illustrate the beauty and the mystery of celestial objects: galaxies, nebulae, stars, planets, satellites, comets, and minor celestial bodies.

Featured are also the astronomers and astrophysicists who contributed to this marvellous story - not only Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Herschel, and Einstein but also hundreds of other minor protagonists who played an important role in the development of this, the most ancient yet the most modern of all the sciences.

Cod. 2626E

EUR 39,90

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Walter Michael Hopferwieser

PIONIERRAKETENPOST UND KOSMISCHE POST
Handbuch und Spezialkatalog

516 pp. - more than 1000 colour ill. - hardbound - 1st ed. 2016
VALUATIONS IN EURO
with number of the known examples
German text with introduction and glossary in English, Russian, Chinese and Italian

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)

PIONEER-ROCKET MAIL AND SPACE MAIL
Handbook and Specialized catalogue

The catalogue describes in detail the launches of single rockets, with the support of technical, historical, biographic and philatelic information, and gives documented prices for the analysed items.

The chapter regarding rocket mail pioneers replaces the previous editions of 1967 and 1973 by Ellington Zwisler. Compared to them, the present edition is widened e and many results of the researches are published here for the first time.

The astronauts brought documents together with their private luggage on the occasion of all the flights to the Moon, from Apollo 11 to Apollo 16. Special handstamps of the USA mail have landed on the Moon: respectively 1 with Apollo 11 and 2 with Apollo 15. All the onboard letters of the Soviet and Russian cosmonauts are catalogued for the first time, from Sojuz 4 of January 1969 to Sojuz TMA-18M of March 2016. Many space letters have flown onboard Space Shuttles or unmanned Dragon spaceships. Chinese too have transported documents in the Space, making manned and unmanned flights. In November 1960, 28 covers onboard the spy satellite Discoverer 17 have made 30 rides around the Earth. In October 2014, documents onboard the Chinese probe Chang'e 5-T1 have made a ride around the Earth. The signatures of all the 556 astronauts from Juri Gagarin to Timothy Peake complete the work.

From the introduction by the Author:

Between the two world wars, young researchers in different countries launched rockets carrying letters and cards. Some of them undertook preliminary tests towards space travels.
They wanted to supply distant villages with mail, accelerate mail-delivery over long distances and start space travels.
For the first time on 3 October 1942, an A-4 / V-2 rocket reached a height of 84.5 km, which was considered space back then.
Later on, rocket mail flights not leaving the gravity of the Earth could not significantly contribute to rocketry and space exploration. Therefore, Pioneer-Rocket Mail ends with the end of WWII.
Space mail are letters and covers that were flown into space at an altitude of 100 km (328,084 feet): Space is defined to begin at an altitude of 100 km according to the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale - FAI.
Onboard covers document an event on board the space station, sometimes an event on the Earth or an anniversary. Most of them are signed by all crewmembers.
During Soviet times numerous souvenir covers with onboard postmarks were made before launch and after the landing. Many bear the signatures of the cosmonauts involved.
Not all the covers transported contain a letter inside.
At the end of 1988 a postal date stamp arrived on board the Russian Mir space station. Since then cosmonauts mark letters transported from the Earth with the date of docking of the spacecraft which transported them to the space station. Letters sent to the Earth are postmarked with the date of undocking from the space station. A board letter carries addresses and details.
Unless otherwise noted, letter means "cover with content". This includes that either the receiver is already on board the space station, or the cosmonaut writing the letter remains in space, when the letter is delivered to the Earth.

CONTENTS

Pioneer-Rocket mail
Australian Rocket Society
Adam de Bruijn
Antonio V. Funes
Franz Josef Kareis
Willy Ley
Miniature Airways
Niuafo'ou Island
Faded propaganda leaflets
Albert Puellenberg
Karl Robetti
Albert C. Roessler
Keith E. Rumbel
Friedrich Schmiedl
Stephen H. Smith
William G. Swan
William S. Sykora
Reinhold Tiling
Gerhard Zucker
Not classified documents

Space Mail manned projects
X-15
Gemini
Apollo
Sojuz flights without space station
Saljut-1
Saljut-2
Saljut-3
Saljut-4
Saljut-5
Saljut-6
Space Shuttle
Saljut-7
Mir
International Space Station
Shenzhou flights without space station
SpaceShipOne

Space Mail unmanned projects
Ballistic military rockets in the USA
Discoverer
Resurs
Bion
Chinese return satellites
Chinese lunar probes
R-29 Ballistic rockets
Ariane
Foton
Civilian Space Exploration Team
Rexus
Texus

Signatures of the astronauts

Cod. 2675E

EUR 44,99

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Umberto Cavallaro

WOMEN SPACEFARERS
SIXTY DIFFERENT PATHS TO SPACE

XXXII+406 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2017
English text

ISBN: 978-3-319-34047-0

This book tells the fascinating stories of the valiant women who broke down barriers to join the space program. Beginning with the orbital flight of USSR cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova in 1963, they became players in the greatest adventure of our time. The author contextualizes their accomplishments in light of the political and cultural climate, from the Cold War in the background to the changing status of women in society at large during the Seventies.
There is one signed cover and/or one postage stamp for almost all the 60 women here introduced.

The book includes the biographies of, and in some cases interviews with, the sixty women who flew in space in the first half century of space history. It reports their achievements and some little known details. The result is a gallery of pioneering women who reached for the stars: women who, with exceptional skill, hard work, and dedication, reached impressive careers as accomplished pilots, researchers, and engineers; many are now in high level managerial positions both at NASA or in public and private organizations, and all left a legacy of strength.

CONTENTS

(60 chapters)
* Valentina Tereshkova: The Icon of Soviet Female Emancipation
* Svetlana Savitskaya: Twice in Space-The Second Soviet First
* Sally Ride: America's Pioneering Woman in Space
* Judith Resnik: The Second "Shuttlenaut"
* Christa McAuliffe: "NASA Teacher in Space"
* Kathryn D. Sullivan: The First American Spacewalker
* Anna Lee Fisher: The First Mother in Space
* Margaret Rhea Seddon: The First Wedding Among NASA Astronauts
* Shannon Lucid: The First American Woman to Participate in a Long-Duration Mission
* Bonnie J. Dunbar: The First Female Astrocosmonaut in History
* Mary L. Cleave: Flying at Age 14
* Ellen Baker: An Internist Physician on the Shuttle
* Kathryn Thornton: The "Space Walker Mom"
* Marsha Ivins: Aspiring Astronaut at 19
* Linda M. Godwin: Physics and Astronomy
* Helen Sharman: The First Briton in Space
* Tamara Jernigan: An Astrophysicist Out Among the Stars
* Millie Hughes-Fulford: The First Female Payload Specialist
* Roberta Bondar: The Pioneer of Space-Medicine Research
* Nancy Jan Davis: Growing Up with the Saturn Rockets
* Mae Jemison: Our Limits Are the Stars
* Susan J. Helms: Three-Star General
* Ellen Ochoa: "Reach for the Stars and Let Nothing Limit Your Potential!"
* Janice Voss: Visits the International Space Station as a Cygnus Craft
* Nancy Currie-Gregg: A Passion for Flying and Concern for Safety
* Chiaki Mukai: The First Japanese Astronaut
* Elena Kondakova: The First Woman to Take Part in a Long-Duration Space Mission
* Eileen Collins: The First Woman "Shuttlenaut" in the Driver's Seat
* Wendy Lawrence: The First Woman Astronaut of the US Navy
* Mary E. Weber: From Skydiving to Stellar Strategies
* Cady Coleman: The Colonel Playing the Flute in Space
* Claudie Haigneré: The First European Space Agency Female Astronaut
* Susan Still Kilrain: The Second Woman to Ever Pilot the Shuttle
* Kalpana Chawla: The Regret of Not Officially Visiting Her Native Country
* Kathryn Hire: The First American Woman Assigned to a Combat Aircrew
* Janet Kavandi: The Rewards of Perseverance and Tenacity
* Julie Payette: "To Assemble a Ship in the Ocean During a Storm"
* Pamela Melroy, the Second and Last Woman to Command a Shuttle
* Peggy Whitson: The First Woman Commander of the International Space Station
* Sandra Magnus: Soaring to New Heights
* Laurel B. Clark: From Deep Oceans to the Stars
* Stephanie Wilson: "Madam Robotics Expert"
* Lisa Nowak: The First Woman Astronaut Ever Dismissed from NASA
* Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper: From Diver to Astronaut
* Anousheh Ansari: The First Iranian Spacewoman
* Sunita Williams: A Marathon Runner in Space
* Joan Higginbotham: An Unplanned Adventure
* Tracy Dyson: The Lead Vocalist for the All-Astronaut Band Max Q
* Barbara Morgan: "I'll Fly with the Eyes, Ears, the Heart and Mind of a Teacher"
* Yi So-Yeon: Korean "Spaceflight Participant"
* Karen Nyberg: The Marathoner Engineer Who Competes with the Space Station
* Megan McArthur: An Aerospace Engineer Riding a Pedal-Powered Submarine
* Nicole Stott: A Steady Flying Passion
* Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger: From Space Camp to Space Station
* Naoko Yamazaki: Astronaut for 4088 Days
* Shannon Walker: The First Native Houstonian Astronaut to Fly into Space with Russians
* Liu Yang: The First Female Taikonaut
* Wang Yaping: A Live Lesson from the "Heavenly Palace"
* Elena Serova: The First Russian Woman Cosmonaut on the International Space Station
* Samantha Cristoforetti: A New Record for Endurance in Space for a Woman