1987 ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ ЗЕМЛИ с пилотируемых космических кораблей [Earth Exploration from Manned Spacecraft]

Description

Author's Presentation Copy, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Dustwrapper

In the original Russian.

The first edition of this very scarce work, in the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.

Signed from the authors to American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut Paul J. Weitz. Weitz was a member of the three-man crew who flew the first crewed Skylab mission, and was also commander of the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

Inscribed 'with sincere feelings of respect and good wishes, in memory of our warm moment and with high hopes for the future, from the authors' to the verso of the half title.

With a further inscription, in Russian, from Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Vasiliyevich Kovalyonok to the title page, dated 13.02.1990, and addressed 'To Paul J. Weitz'.

Soviet cosmonaut Kovalyonok flew the long-endurance mission EO-2, which set a new record of 139 days in space. 

Inscribed to the half title 'from my library Paul Weitz', with Weitz's blind stamp to the title page tail.

Illustrated throughout with monochrome and colour photographs, tables, and charts.

This work summarises the results of visual and instrumental studies of the Earth gathered from Salyut, the Soviet Union's first space station program, which ran from 1971 to 1986.