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Rare Books
When an enigmatic monolith is found buried on the moon, scientists are amazed to discover that it's at least 3 million years old. Even more amazing, after it's unearthed the artifact releases a powerful signal aimed at Saturn. What sort of alarm has been triggered? To find out, a manned spacecraft, the Discovery, is sent to investigate. Its crew is highly trained--the best--and they are assisted by a self-aware computer, the ultra-capable HAL 9000. But HAL's programming has been patterned after the human mind a little too well. He is capable of guilt, neurosis, even murder, and he controls every single one of Discovery's components. The crew must overthrow this digital psychotic if they hope to make their rendezvous with the entities that are responsible not just for the monolith, but maybe even for human civilization.
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Manuscripts
Photographs of lunar surface, satellite antennas, and spacecraft likely used for Hibbs and Albert Frank Eiss book, The Earth-Space Sciences: Investigating Man's Environment, Laidlaw Bros., River Forest, Illinois, 1971.
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Visual Materials
An album of color photographs chronicling the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Redstone Arsenal, a United States Army post near Huntsville, Alabama, and its new status as home of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Photographs depict visiting dignitaries, including Major General John Barclay, and many product exhibits of a space program and defense contractor trade show. Companies whose products are displayed include: Du Pont and a proposed space suit, Boeing Company Minuteman Systems, I.B.M., Lockheed Aircraft, General Electric, Honeywell, and many others. Also included are several images of a Redstone missile standing next to its mobile launching platform. The color in the prints has faded considerably.
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Manuscripts
Approx. 40 items: a selection of editorials from 1958 to 1975, spanning the early space efforts of unmanned vehicles such as Explorer, through the Apollo landings on the Moon, to the 1975 outer space link-up of two space vehicles, one American (Apollo), the other Soviet (Soyuz).
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Manuscripts
Removed from binder. Perspective on Communication Satellites (Denver ARCS Foundation). Anatomy of a Major Australian Venture - "Aussat" (Australian-American Chamber of Commerce). Prepared Remarks (Subcommittee on Telecommunications Consumer Protection and Finance of the Committee of Energy and Commerce. An Industrial Perspective. Direct Broadcast By Satellite: What Went Wrong? (The Canadian Satellite User). Aspen Asat Discussion Paper (Domestic Strategy Group). The Role of Satellites in a Communications Strategy. Strategic Force Characteristics (Stanford University). Communication Satellites in an ISDN Environment (Asia Telecom 85 Forum). Civil Space Activities (Domestic Strategy Group). Space Subcommittee Hearings on Insurance and Space Commercialization (Congressional Testimony). Intelsat Bog Welcome. Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation (United States Senate).
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Manuscripts
Collection includes items related to Hohmann's life and career in Germany and the United States. German materials include photographs and publications from his pre-war work as a glider pilot, wartime documents and correspondence related to his postings and employment, flight maps, manuals, and ephemera. There are also many personal photographs, a Hohmann family history, and a photo-illustrated account of Bernhard and Irmgard's dangerous departure from Peenemünde in 1945, created by Irmgard Hohmann. United States space program materials include Hohmann's notes about flight testing, lecture materials, internal reports, press release photos, a test flight map, printed ephemera, and newspaper articles. There is also some personal material related to Hohmann's work and membership in professional organizations, personal photographs of Bernhard and Irmgard, and memorabilia.
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