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2005réf. 86140Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Center for AeroSpace Information CASI Publications and Graphics Department 2005. Presumed First Edition First printing of this annual report. Trade paperback. Very good. Lynette Cook Front cover art. The format is approximately 11 inches by 8.5 inches. 167 1 pages. Illustrations most with color. Annual report on technology transfer or "technology twice used" inventions from NASA. Since 1976 Spinoff has profiled technologies that benefit from NASA investment and expertise. These developments have transformed into commercial products and services that are used throughout daily life from your cell phone camera to the memory foam in your mattress. When Congress created NASA it mandated the agency disseminate its innovations as widely possible. To that end the Technology Transfer Program was created in 1964 and it has functioned ever since making it NASA’s longest continuously operated mission. Early publications about NASA inventions made available to the scientific and engineering communities resulted in feedback indicating a broad interest in the private sector in adapting NASA technology for commercial uses. As products began to emerge NASA began preparing annual reports on these successes to present at congressional budget hearings. Spinoff has been published in a four-color editionand it has been released every year since 1976. All together since its first edition NASA has shared the stories of more 2000 products and services that began as or have benefited from NASA technology. In addition to the general public NASA sends copies of Spinoff to politicians representatives at the United Nations economic decision makers company CEOs academics scientists engineers professionals in technology transfer the news media and many others. The early black-and-white Technology Utilization Program Reports published in 1973 and ‘74 generated so much public interest that NASA decided to turn them into an attractive publication for a general audience. NASA SPINOFF now features dozens of success stories annually online and in its print publication demonstrating the wider benefits of America’s investment in its space program. The 2005 edition highlights Partnership Benefits in Health and Medicine Transportation Public Safety Consumer/Home/Recreations Environment and Resources Management; Computer Technology and Industrial Productivity/Manufacturing Technology. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA Center for AeroSpace Information (CASI), Publications and Graphics Departmen paperback
2011réf. 74113Amarillo TX: National Nuclear Security Administration Pantex Plant c2011. Presumed First thus. Patches. Very good. The patch is about 3.5 inches by 3.5 inches but the top is rounded so it is more like an arched window than a full square. It has a black border. The center has the image of the bomb a big dog and the text "B53" and "Last of the Big Dogs. On an orange border in black letters is "NNSA SS-21 Dismantlement DOE Pantex LANL LLNL SNL Y12 OST" From Wikipedia: The Mk/B53 was a high-yield bunker buster thermonuclear weapon developed by the United States during the Cold War. Deployed on Strategic Air Command bombers the B53 with a yield of 9 megatons was the most powerful weapon in the U.S. nuclear arsenal after the last B41 nuclear bombs were retired in 1976. The B53 was the basis of the W-53 warhead carried by the Titan II Missile which was decommissioned in 1987. Fifty B53s were retained during that time as part of the "hedge" portion of the Enduring Stockpile. The last B53 was disassembled on 25 October 2011 a year ahead of schedule. Development of the weapon began in 1955 by Los Alamos National Laboratory based on the earlier Mk 21 and Mk 46 weapons. In March 1958 the Strategic Air Command issued a request for a new Class C bomb to replace the earlier Mk 41. A revised version of the Mk 46 became the TX-53 in 1959. The Mk 53 entered production in 1962 and was built through June 1965. It entered service aboard B-47 Stratojet B-52G Stratofortress and B-58 Hustler bomber aircraft in the mid-1960s. From 1968 it was redesignated B53. Some early versions of the bomb were dismantled beginning in 1967. The B53 was also intended to be retired in the 1980s but 50 units remained in the active stockpile until the deployment of the B61-11 in 1997. At that point the obsolete B53s were slated for immediate disassembly; however the process of disassembling the units was greatly hampered by safety concerns as well as a lack of resources. In 2010 authorization was given to disassemble the 50 bombs at the Pantex plant in Texas. The process of dismantling the last remaining B53 bomb in the stockpile was completed in 2011. It was intended as a bunker buster weapon using a surface blast after laydown deployment to transmit a shock wave through the earth to collapse its target. Attacks against the Soviet deep underground leadership shelters in the Chekhov/Sharapovo area south of Moscow envisaged multiple B53/W53 exploding at ground level. It has since been supplanted in such roles by the earth-penetrating B61 Mod 11 a bomb that penetrates the surface to deliver much more of its explosive energy into the ground and therefore needs a much smaller yield to produce the same effects. The B53 was intended to be retired in the 1980s but 50 units remained in the active stockpile until the deployment of the B61-11 in 1997. At that point the obsolete B53s were slated for immediate disassembly; however the process of disassembling the units was greatly hampered by safety concerns and a lack of resources. The last remaining B53 bomb began the disassembly processes on Tuesday 25 October 2011 at the Energy Department's Pantex Plant. National Nuclear Security Administration, Pantex Plant unknown
2008réf. 82252Washington DC: National Nuclear Security Administration 2008. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Single sheet printed on both sides. Very good. This is an approximately 8.5 inch by 11 inch sheet of stiff card paper folded at the center to create four 5.5 by 8.5 inch panels. Illustrations are on the front and back panels. Text is on all panels. Marty was born February 191953 in St. Louis Park Minnesota. He was a graduate of Montgomery High School in 1971 the U.S. Naval Academy in 1975 and the George Washington University in 1981. Marty was a U.S. Naval officer for 20 years and civil servant for 20 years with 8 of those years in the Senior Executive Service of the U.S. Department of Energy. He retired for the third time in April 2018 after 4 years at Honeywell. Marty honorably served his country in a number of Uniformed Service civilian and private sector career. This event program marked his departure from the Office of Defense Programs to take on a critically important Department of Energy position at the United States Embassy in Beijing People's Republic of China where he was the Secretary's Representative and Senior DOE representative in China. Copies of such event programs rarely survive the event itself. Presiding at the departure event was Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs Robert L. Smolen and making the major presentation was Thomas P. D'Agostino Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration. The senior representative of the United States Department of Energy at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing China is responsible for leading a team to advance U.S. security and economic interests in the areas of energy science and technology and nuclear security and nonproliferation. In this role the senior representative is responsible for developing analyses and recommendations for the Secretary on key strategic initiatives with China related to the overall energy relationship. The representative is responsible for conducting in-depth analyses for comprehensive energy policy planning and strategic decision making on international energy policy and investment and trade issues. The representative provides insights briefings and other comprehensive analyses on key energy issues in China and Asia more broadly including on the issues of energy security clean energy development and deployment energy efficiency clean energy technology innovation and bilateral and multilateral cooperation initiatives among others. National Nuclear Security Administration unknown
2001réf. 79902Washington DC: National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation 2001. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Wraps. Very good. 19 13 pages. Mostly printed on both sides of a sheet. Sheets/project posters on several IPP projects are included at the back of this document. This year's report covers a year that involved a number of exciting developments in the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention IPP program. The program receives a significant vote of confidence for its commercialization focus with for successful IPP projects attracting $56 million in private venture capital funds. These funds were in addition to the already substantial contribution from U.S. industry partners who more than match U.S. government funding on each new IPP project. The IPP program also resumed operation in Kazakhstan and Ukraine adding the scientific talent of these countries to the technology resource base now available to U.S. industry partners. The program's nonproliferation objectives are met with increasing success as a growing number of former Soviet weapons scientists are engaged both in the course of ongoing work as well as in the jobs that are being created by successfully completed IPP projects. Preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is a central part of US national security policy. A principal instrument of the Department of Energy`s DOE`s program for securing weapons of mass destruction technology and expertise and removing incentives for scientists engineers and technicians in the newly independent states NIS of the former Soviet Union to go to rogue countries or assist terrorist groups is the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention IPP. IPP was initiated pursuant to the 1994 Foreign Operations Appropriations Act. IPP is a nonproliferation program with a commercialization strategy. IPP seeks to enhance US national security and to achieve nonproliferation objectives by engaging scientists engineers and technicians from former NIS weapons institutes; redirecting their activities in cooperatively-developed commercially viable non-weapons related projects. These projects lead to commercial and economic benefits for both the NIS and the US IPP projects are funded in Russian Ukraine Kazakhstan and Belarus. This booklet offers an overview of the IPP program as well as a sampling of some of the projects which are currently underway. National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation paperback
2018réf. 75546Washington DC: National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Safety Infrastructure and Operations 2018. Presumed First Edition First printing. Spiral bound. Very good. 58 pages. Illustrations color. Map. Acronyms. Clear plastic sheets at front and back covers. This 2018 Master Asset Plan MAP lays out the National Nuclear Security Administration's NNSA infrastructure vision and highlights strategic investments being made to achieve it. It is an update to the first-ever 2017 MAP which described how NNSA's infrastructure supports it's unique mission requirements and the gaps and mission risks inherent in that infrastructure. Safe reliable and modern infrastructure at NNSA's national laboratories and production plants is absolutely essential to accomplish our vital national security mission and ensure the well-being of our workforce. As the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review states there is no margin for further delay in improving the state of NNSA's infrastructure. Significant and sustained investments will be required during the next quarter century to recapitalize and revitalize the nuclear security enterprise. The Master Asset Plan assembles data into a single report that presents an integrated view of NNSA's infrastructure strategy. National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Safety, Infrastructure, and Operations unknown
1977réf. 33911Washington DC: NOAA Dec 1977. 1st edition. Folded color map. Fine. This is a color map of all the sectional maps available through NOAA as part of its National Ocean Survey. Includes bathymetric maps Florida coastal zone maps geophysical maps IHB-GEBCO plotting sheets marine boundary maps and charts marine weather service charts offshore mineral leasing maps storm evacuation maps tidal current charts definitions purchase instructions. As-new condition rare item Folded size 6 x 10 unfolded 20 x 45 color-printed both sides. 18 panels. NOAA unknown
1942réf. 89889Washington DC: Office of Price Administration U.S. Government Printing Office 1942. Presumed First Edition First issuance to this individual. Single sheet printed on one side. Fair. The format is approximately 5.25 inches by 6.5 inches folded--with War Ration stamps 19 20 and 22 still attached. Issued by Local Board 82-82 of Wayne County Michigan. This includes the Certificate of Registrar made out to Alena Alta Smith of the city of Detroit. She is reported to be 5 foot 6 inches 190 pounds with black eyes brown hair and 36 years old. She has signed the Certificate of Book Holder that is part of this sheet. This was issued on May 4 1942 by Oscar G. Christensen of Local Board No. 82-82 This was issued on the FIRST day of distribution! Detroit and the industrial region surrounding it was plunged into semi-darkness as all except street lights and in war factories went out for fifteen minutes during a blackout drill on May 4 1942. Civilians first received ration books—War Ration Book Number One or the "Sugar Book"—on 4 May 1942 through more than 100000 schoolteachers PTA groups and other volunteers. Sugar was the first consumer commodity rationed with all sales ended on 27 April 1942 and resumed on 5 May with a ration of 1 2 pound 8 oz per person per week half of normal consumption. Bakeries ice cream makers and other commercial users received rations of about 70% of normal usage. Coffee was rationed nationally on 29 November 1942 to 1 pound every five weeks about half of normal consumption in part because of German attacks on shipping from Brazil. As of 1 March 1942 dog food could no longer be sold in tin cans and manufacturers switched to dehydrated versions. As of 1 April 1942 anyone wishing to purchase a new toothpaste tube then made from metal had to turn in an empty one. By June 1942 companies also stopped manufacturing metal office furniture radios television sets phonographs refrigerators vacuum cleaners washing machines and sewing machines for civilians. By the end of 1942 ration coupons were used for nine other items: typewriters gasoline bicycles shoes rubber footwear silk nylon fuel oil and stoves. Meat lard shortening and food oils cheese butter margarine processed foods canned bottled and frozen dried fruits canned milk firewood and coal jams jellies and fruit butter were rationed by November 1943. Many retailers welcomed rationing because they were already experiencing shortages of many items due to rumors and panics such as flashlights and batteries after Pearl Harbor. Ration Book Number Five is a very rare ration book only issued to very few people. By the end of 1942 ration coupons were used for nine other items: typewriters gasoline bicycles shoes rubber footwear silk nylon fuel oil and stoves. Meat lard shortening and food oils cheese butter margarine processed foods canned bottled and frozen dried fruits canned milk firewood and coal jams jellies and fruit butter were rationed by November 1943. Many retailers welcomed rationing because they were already experiencing shortages of many items due to rumors and panics such as flashlights and batteries after Pearl Harbor. Ration Book Number Five is a very rare ration book only issued to very few people. Office of Price Administration, U.S. Government Printing Office unknown
1942réf. 89902Washington DC: Office of Price Administation 1942. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Single sheet printed on both sides. Good. The format is approximately 5 inches by 1.375 inches. Rare surviving item of War Rationing ephemera. This was originally attached to an application to obtain War Ration Book No. 3. The Office of Price Administration OPA was established within the Office for Emergency Management of the United States government by Executive Order 8875 on August 28 1941. The functions of the OPA were originally to control money price controls and rents after the outbreak of World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated the Council of National Defense Advisory Commission on May 29 19404 to include Price Stabilization and Consumer Protection Divisions. Both divisions merged to become the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply OPACS within the Office for Emergency Management by Executive Order 8734 on April 11 1941. Civil supply functions were transferred to the Office of Production Management. It became an independent agency under the Emergency Price Control Act January 30 1942. The OPA had the power to place ceilings on all prices except agricultural commodities and to ration scarce supplies of other items including tires automobiles shoes nylon sugar gasoline fuel oil coffee meats and processed foods. At the peak almost 90% of retail food prices were frozen. It could also authorize subsidies for production of some of those commodities. Rationing is the controlled distribution of scarce resources goods or services or an artificial restriction of demand. Rationing controls the size of the ration which is one person's allotted portion of the resources being distributed on a particular day or at a particular time. Rationing in the United States was introduced in stages during World War II with the last of the restrictions ending in June 1947. In the summer of 1941 rationing in the United Kingdom increased because of military needs and German attacks on shipping in the Battle of the Atlantic. The British government appealed to Americans to conserve food to help the UK. The Office of Price Administration OPA warned Americans of potential gasoline steel aluminum and electricity shortages. It believed that with factories converting to military production and consuming many critical supplies rationing would become necessary if the country entered the war. The OPA established a rationing system after the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December. The work of issuing ration books and exchanging used stamps for certificates was handled by some 5500 local ration boards of mostly volunteer workers selected by local officials. Many levels of rationing went into effect. Some items such as sugar were distributed evenly based on the number of people in a household. Other items like gasoline or fuel oil were rationed only to those who could justify a need. Restaurant owners and other merchants were accorded more availability but had to collect ration stamps to restock their supplies. In exchange for used ration stamps ration boards delivered certificates to restaurants and merchants to authorize procurement of more products. Each ration stamp had a generic drawing of an airplane gun tank aircraft carrier ear of wheat fruit etc. and a serial number. Some stamps also had alphabetic lettering. The kind and amount of rationed commodities were not specified on most of the stamps and were not defined until later when local newspapers published for example that beginning on a specified date one airplane stamp was required in addition to cash to buy one pair of shoes and one stamp number 30 from ration book four was required to buy five pounds of sugar. The commodity amounts changed from time to time depending on availability. Red stamps were used to ration meat and butter and blue stamps were used to ration processed foods. To enable making change for ration stamps the government issued "red point" tokens to be given in change for red stamps and "blue point" tokens in change for blue stamps. The red and blue tokens were about the size of dimes 0.63 in and were made of thin compressed wood fiber material because metals were in short supply. There was a black market in stamps. To prevent this the OPA ordered vendors not to accept stamps that they themselves did not tear out of books. Buyers however circumvented this by saying sometimes accurately as the books were not well-made that the stamps had "fallen out". In actuality they may have acquired stamps from other family members or friends or the black market. Most rationing restrictions ended in August 1945 except for sugar rationing which lasted until 1947 in some parts of the country. Office of Price Administation unknown
1856réf. 059977New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1856. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good -/No Jacket as Issued. Brown full leather cover with gold lettering. Marbled edges. 429pp. plus 9 pages of ads. Book has rubbing to the covers and spine as well as foxing to it's pages. Front and back hinge starting. Part of front pasted down end-paper is missing it's been rubbed. Dampstaining to portions of the text body. Text does not contain underlining and/or notes. It is in very good condition for when it was published. Full refund if not satisfied. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
1966réf. 101305Washington DC: March 3 1966. 1966. Very good. - Over 40 words typed on 10-1/2 inch high by 8 inch wide "Office of Economic Opportunity / Executive Office of the President" stationery. Sargent Shriver expresses his pleasure at having discussed the anti-poverty program with U.S. Congressman Seymour Halpern "It was a real pleasure to discuss the anti-poverty program with you at the breakfast meeting last Wednesday morning arranged by Representative Sam Gibbons." Signed "Sarge Shriver" as director with the date stamped near the top. Folded for mailing with minor creases to two corners else near fine. Sargent Shriver was an American politician and activist. He married Eunice Kennedy thus becoming part of the Kennedy family. Serving in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations he was the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps and founded the Job Corps Head Start and other programs as the architect of Johnson's "War on Poverty". He served as the first director of the Peace Corps from 1961 to 1965 and was the U.S. Ambassador to France under Lyndon Johnson from 1968 to 1970. The Queens New York Republican Congressman Seymour Halpern 1913-1997 started his political career as a campaign aide to New York's powerful mayor Fiorella La Guardia and first served in New York's State Senate for 14 years before seeking a seat in the U.S. Congress. In Albany Halpern sponsored 279 bills that became law including measures on schools housing civil rights nutrition and mental health. A Liberal he was something of an anomaly as the lone Republican representative from New York City and generally garnered support from Labor Unions and endorsement from the Liberal Party. Yet he never even considered switching parties as he considered membership in the Republican Party a family tradition and commitment. While he found ample time for his private pursuits including painting and collecting autographs he took his legislative duties very seriously. Of these he was proudest of his co-sponsorship of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and of the original 1965 Medicare legislation. Washington, DC: March 3, 1966.
1945réf. 124175New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co. Inc. Very Good. 1945. Hardcover. A Very Good edition that has aging to the pages and boards and some rubbing to the outer edges of the boards ; The Writer's Program of the Work Projects Administration in the City of New York publishes American Wild Life Illustrated a coffee table book with stunning full-color images of animals in their natural habitats.; 8vo; 749 pages . Wm. H. Wise & Co. , Inc. hardcover
1995réf. 67850Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1995. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Tabs folced. Includes illustrations. Approximately 200 pages. Contains the two-day agenda and presentations from the first day Sessions 1 and 2. Occasional footnotes. This appears to be the first volume of a two volume proceedings of a NASA sponsored conference held in Washington DC. National Aeronautics and Space Administration paperback
1962réf. 63828United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1962. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Includes illustrations. Unpaginated 40 pages plus covers United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration paperback
1940réf. 0006886Washington DC : GPO 1940. First edition. 4to 51 71 257 158 150 98 pages black cloth dampstained bottom margin of book block. With Wind Drift Grid laid in. Note: heavy will require extra shipping fees. Bound with DIGEST OF CIVIL AIR REGULATIONS FOR PILOTS. C.A.B. Bulletin no. 22 4th Ed. GPO 1941. With Cram Brimm's CIVIL PILOT TRAINING MANUAL. C.A.B. Bulletin no. 23. GPO 1940. With Jones AERODYNAMICS FOR PILOTS. C.A.B. Bulletin no. 26. GPO 1940. With Anderson PILOT'S AIRPLANE MANUAL. C. A.B. Bulletin no. 27. GPO 1940. With Nichols. PILOT'S RADIO MANUAL. C.A.B. Bulletin no. 29. GPO 1940. Foldouts diagrams maps. GPO hardcover
réf. 63-7589Washington DC: United States General Services Administration 2006. 8vo. Oblong. Soft Covers 36 pp. Very Good. Color Plates. From the Peter Selz collection. Washington, DC: United States General Services Administration, [2006]. paperback
1987réf. 65212Washington DC 1987. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Staple bound. Slight wear and soiling. xii 91 p. Includes: illustrations diagrams maps. Distribution Category UC-90. This document was released for printing on February 19 1987. This report presents an analysis of both actual fuel substitution in 1984 and potential fuel substitution in the manufacturing sector. This analysis is based on the 1984 Dun & Bradstreet Major Industrial Plant Database MIPD. This report also provides a summary of the MIPD at both the national and Census region level and compares the Dun and Bradstreet data to other available data sources. paperback
2014réf. 74295Washington DC: United States. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Office of Safety and Health 2014. Review draft. Binder clip at upper left corner. Very good. Approximately 200 sheets printed on one side only. Acronyms and Organizational Designations. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. The final version of this supplemental directive was issued/dated 11-17-14. The evaluations described in this Supplemental Directive comprise a formalized approach to ensuring the nuclear explosive safety NES of all nuclear explosive operations NEOs performed by the National Nuclear Security Administration NNSA and its contractors. This approach requires that all new approved current and proposed changes to NEOs and associated supporting infrastructure receive a commensurate level of review and analysis. The Nuclear Explosive Safety Evaluation Process is a key mission responsibility of the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Office of the Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs. Among the topics and activities covered are: Nuclear Explosive Safety Studies NESS Operations Safety Reviews Contractor Nuclear Explosive Safety Change Evaluations Secure Transportation Security Operations Study Group Technical Advisors Post-Evaluation Process Change Control Process Deliberation Topics Findings Information Evaluation Finding Disposition Qualification Requirements Nuclear Explosive Operations. United States. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Office of Safety and Health unknown
1984réf. 57891Washington DC: United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1984. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has minor wear and soiling. 190 pages. Index. NASA TM-87394. Limited Distribution Notice date for general release was May 1987. This publication represents the NSAS research and technology program for FY 1985. It is a compilation of the summary portion of the Research and Technology Objectives and Plans RTOPs. It was believed that this publication would help the technology transfer process. United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration paperback
2009réf. 67232Moffett FIeld CA: United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2009. Reprint. Second Printing. Wraps. Very good. Includes: illustrations diagrams. Various paginations approximately 125 pages. References. From Wikipedia: "The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy SOFIA is a joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Center DLR to construct and maintain an airborne observatory. NASA awarded the contract for the development of the aircraft operation of the observatory and management of the American part of the project to the Universities Space Research Association USRA in 1996. The DSI Deutsches SOFIA Institut manages the German parts of the project which are primarily science and telescope related. SOFIA's telescope saw first light on May 26 2010. SOFIA is the successor to the Kuiper Airborne Observatory.SOFIA is based on a Boeing 747SP wide-body aircraft that has been modified to include a large door in the aft fuselage that can be opened in flight to allow a 2.5 meter diameter reflecting telescope access to the sky. This telescope is designed for infrared astronomy observations in the stratosphere at altitudes of about 41 000 feet about 12 km. SOFIA's flight capability allows it to rise above almost all of the water vapor in the Earth's atmosphere which blocks some infrared wavelengths from reaching the ground. At the aircraft's cruising altitude 85% of the full infrared range will be available. The aircraft can also travel to almost any point on the Earth's surface allowing observation from the northern and southern hemispheres. Once ready for use the expectation is for observing flights to be flown 3 or 4 nights a week for the next 20 years. SOFIA is now based at NASA's Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility at LA/Palmdale Regional Airport California while staff at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View California operate the SOFIA Science Center where astronomical observation missions are planned for the flying observatory. The NASA logo reflected in SOFIAs 2.5-meter primary mirror. SOFIA uses a 2.5-meter reflector telescope which has an oversized 2.7 meter diameter primary mirror as is common with most large infrared telescopes. The optical system uses a Cassegrain reflector design with a parabolic primary mirror and a remotely configurable hyperbolic secondary. In order to fit the telescope into the fuselage the primary is shaped to an f-number as low as 1.3 while the resulting optical layout has an f-number of 19.7. A flat tertiary dichroic mirror is used to deflect the infrared part of the beam to the Nasmyth focus where it can be analyzed. An optical mirror located behind the tertiary mirror is used for a camera guidance system. The telescope looks out of a large door in the side of the fuselage near the airplane's tail and will initially carry nine instruments for infrared astronomy at wavelengths from 1 655 micrometres and high-speed optical astronomy at wavelengths from 0.3 1.1 micrometres. The main instruments are the FLITECAM a near infrared camera covering 1 5 micrometres; FORCAST covering the mid-infrared range of 5 40 micrometres and HAWC which spans the far infrared in the range 42 210 micrometres. The other four instruments include an optical photometer and infrared spectrometers with various spectral ranges. SOFIA s telescope is by far the largest ever to be placed in an aircraft. For each mission one interchangeable science instrument will be attached to the telescope. Two groups of general purpose instruments are available. In addition an investigator can also design and build a special purpose instrument. On April 17 2012 two upgrades to HAWC were selected by NASA to increase the field of view with new detector arrays and to add the capability of measuring the polarization of dust emission from celestial sources. The open cavity housing the telescope will be exposed to high-speed turbulent winds. In addition the vibrations and motions of the aircraft introduce observing difficulties. The telescope was designed to be very lightweight with a honeycomb shape milled into the back of the mirror and polymer composite material used for the telescope. United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration paperback
1943réf. 62753Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office 1943. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Cover has some wear and soiling. v 26 p. Includes illustrations. 78th Congress 1st Session. House Document No. 54. This was Leon Henderson's last report. He addressed briefly the initial and at times seemingly insuperable difficulties confronted. He recognized individual hardships but asserted that these were being held to a minimum. This report contains charts and a wealth of information by commodity groups and other groupings. These documents have becoming increasingly scarce in the secondhand scholarly and collector communities. United States Government Printing Office paperback
2000réf. 63238Washington DC: United States Department of Energy 2000. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling. xvi 20 2 2 p. Acronyms; Secretary of Energy Richardson summarized the results of a late 1999 review as "The principal finding of the review is that stockpile stewardship works both in terms of specific science surveillance and production accomplishments and in terms of developing a program management structure that integrates the span of program activities. United States Department of Energy paperback
2006réf. 52774Washington DC: U.S. Department of Energy 2006. very good. 21 wraps color illus. figures. Inscribed by NNSA Administrator Linton Brooks on front cover. DOE/NA-0013. U.S. Department of Energy paperback
2000réf. 57080Washington DC: U.S. Department of Energy 2000. First Edition. First Printing. good. 24 wraps color illus. map figure table acronyms some wear at spine transmittal letter laid in. This is the unclassified Executive Overview of the classified Department of Energy Fiscal Year 2001 Stockpile Stewardship Plan. The Stockpile Stewardship Plan is a corporate-level multi-year program plan that describes the strategy to ensure high confidence in the safety and reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile. U.S. Department of Energy paperback
2018réf. 75547Washington DC: U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration and U. K. Ministry of Defence 2018. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Very good. 3 38 3 plus covers. Timeline. Illustrations many in color. Maps. The 1958 US-UK Mutual Defense Agreement or UK-US Mutual Defence Agreement is a bilateral treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom on nuclear weapons cooperation. The treaty's full name is Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for Cooperation on the uses of Atomic Energy for Mutual Defense Purposes. It allows the United States and the UK to exchange nuclear materials technology and information. While the US has nuclear cooperation agreements with other countries including France and some NATO countries this agreement is by far the most comprehensive. Harold Macmillan called it "the Great Prize". The treaty was signed on 3 July 1958 after the Soviet Union shocked the American public with the Sputnik crisis on 4 October 1957 and the British hydrogen bomb programme successfully tested a hydrogen bomb in the Operation Grapple test on 8 November 1957. The Anglo-American Special Relationship proved mutually beneficial although it was never one of equals; the United States was far larger than Britain both militarily and economically. Britain soon became dependent on the United States for its nuclear weapons as it lacked the resources to produce a range of designs. The treaty allowed American nuclear weapons to be supplied to Britain through Project E for the use by the Royal Air Force and British Army of the Rhine. The treaty provided for the sale to the UK of one complete nuclear submarine propulsion plant plus ten years' supply of enriched uranium to fuel it. Other nuclear material was also acquired from the United States under the treaty. including 7.5 tonnes of highly enriched uranium although much of the highly enriched uranium was used as fuel for the growing fleet of UK nuclear submarines. The treaty paved the way for the Polaris Sales Agreement and the Royal Navy ultimately acquired entire weapons systems with the UK Polaris programme and Trident nuclear programme using American missiles with British nuclear warheads. The treaty has been amended and renewed nine times. The most recent renewal extended it to 31 December 2024. U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration and U. K. Ministry of Defence paperback
1997réf. 20050U.S. Dept. of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration 1997. Paperback. Very Good. Spiral-bound softcover light shelfwear to covers. Contents clean and tight. 90 pages bibliography color and b&w photos and illus. U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration paperback
