25 Publishers of space/astronomy material
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This article is from the Space FAQ, by Jon Leech leech@cs.unc.edu and Mark Bradford tla@surly.org with numerous contributions by others.
25 Publishers of space/astronomy material
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
1290 24th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94122
More expensive but better organized slide sets.
Cambridge University Press
32 East 57th Street
New York, NY 10022
Crawford-Peters Aeronautica
P.O. Box 152528
San Diego, CA 92115
(619) 287-3933
An excellent source of all kinds of space publications. They publish
a number of catalogs, including:
Aviation and Space, 1945-1962
Aviation and Space, 1962-1990
Space and Related Titles
European Southern Observatory
Information and Photographic Service
Dr R.M. West
Karl Scharzschild Strasse 2
D-8046 Garching bei Munchen
FRG
Slide sets, posters, photographs, conference proceedings.
Finley Holiday Film Corporation
12607 East Philadelphia Street
Whittier, California 90601
(213)945-3325
(800)FILMS-07
Wide selection of Apollo, Shuttle, Viking, and Voyager slides at ~50
cents/slide. Call for a catalog.
Hansen Planetarium Publications
1845 South 300 West, # A
Salt Lake City, Utah 84115-1804
(801)-483-5400 / (800)-321-2369
(801)-483-5484 (fax)
Said to hold sales on old slide sets. Look in Sky & Telescope
for contact info.
Kluwer Academic Publishers
(617)-871-6600
Lunar and Planetary Institute
also Univ. Space Research Assn. (USRA) Division of Educational Programs
also USRA Division of Space Life Sciences
Center for Advanced Space Studies
3600 Bay Area Boulevard
Houston TX 77058-1113
(713)-486-2182
LPI has a quarterly magazine, "The Lunar and Planetary Information
Bulletin," edited by thompson@lpi.jsc.nasa.gov (P. Thompson). Also
technical, geology-oriented slide sets, with supporting booklets.
John Wiley & Sons
605 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10158-0012
Microcosm
Suite #230
2601 Airport Drive
Torrance, CA 90505
(310)-539-9444
Newell Color Lab
221 N. Westmoreland Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90004-4892
(213)-380-2980
(213)-739-6984 (FAX)
Offers an extensive collection of Voyager, Viking, Magellan, Galileo
and Hubble Space Telescope images in print (b/w and color) format,
35mm slides, transparencies and Kodak Photo CDs.
Sky Publishing Corporation
PO Box 9111
Belmont, MA 02178-9111
Offers "Sky Catalogue 2000.0" on PC floppy with information
(including parallax) for 45000 stars.
Roger Wheate
Geography Dept.
University of Calgary, Alberta
Canada T2N 1N4
(403)-220-4892
(403)-282-7298 (FAX)
wheate@uncamult.bitnet
Offers a 40-slide set called "Mapping the Planets" illustrating
recent work in planetary cartography, comes with a booklet and
information on getting your own copies of the maps. $50 Canadian,
shipping included.
Superintendent of Documents
US Government Printing Office
Washington, DC 20402
Univelt, Inc.
P. O. Box 28130
San Diego, Ca. 92128
Publishers for the American Astronomical Society.
US Naval Observatory
202-653-1079 (USNO Bulletin Board via modem)
202-653-1507 General
Willmann-Bell
P.O. Box 35025
Richmond, Virginia 23235 USA
(804)-320-7016 9-5 EST M-F
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