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Douglas Aircraft Company, Douglas Missile & Space Systems Division, Advance Space Technology, Atmospheric Sciences Branch, 1963. Wraps. Very good. [2], iii, [1], 103, [1] pages. Illustrations. References. This was prepared under the sponsorship of the Douglas Aircraft Company Independent Research and Development Program. This is an early work associated with understanding aspects of Mars exploration. Mars is the fourth planet from the center of the solar system, orbiting the Sun once every 687 (Earth) days at a mean distance of 141 million mi (227 million km). Called the "red planet" for its distinct orange-red color, Mars has been the object of intense interest for over a century. Mars was thought to be barren after the Viking spacecraft landed on it in 1976 and found no evidence of living organisms. But interest in Mars as at least an ancient host of life resurged in the 1990s with the claim of fossilized microbes in meteorites from Mars, and pictures from the 1997 Pathfinder mission that…
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by Douglas Aircraft Staff
The DC-8 Series Sixty..Excellence Through Evolution
by Douglas Aircraft Staff
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Douglas Aircraft. Fair with no dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. 100 pages. Contents: The Basics of the DC-8 with Family Characteristics; Model DC-9, Series 10, Series 20, Series 30, Series 40; The Design: Elements and Details; Product Support. Report Number C1-807-1264, Illustrated thoughtout with photographs, drawings and charts. Tan cloth boards soiled. Creases at the hinges. Light marks and light creases on several pages; Note: there are tears on pages 37 and 38 at the bottom; the boards do not lay flat .
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- Keywords Transportation Aviation, Mcdonnel Douglas Dc-8 (jet Transport) -- Design And Construction, Dc-8 Series 60, DC-9 Passenger Planes, Airplanes And Jets, Aeronautics, Commercial -- History
Physical Properties of the Planet Mars; Douglas Report SM-43634
by The Staff of the Atmospheric Sciences Branch, Advance Space Technology, Douglas Missile & Space Systems Division, Douglas Aircraft Company
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