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Recent Order 6: Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: Summary Science Report, Vol. II #BookSky 💙📚 #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭

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Recent Order 5: Rocket Science for the Rest of Us

photo of book on rocket science on cream background. Cover is graphically busy with bright yellow text and/or stencils.

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Recent Order 4: A History of Modern Planetary Physics, Vol 1: Nebulous Earth A History of Modern Planetary Physics, Vol 2: Transmuted Past A History of Modern Planetary Physics, Vol 3: Fruitful Encounters Essential Relativistic Celestial Mechanics Science Magazine 1979 #BookSky 💙📚 #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭

books and magazine laid out for photo on wooden shelf. Science magazine in the foreground, stack of four books towards the back in a slight fan display.

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Recent Order 3: The Physics of Astrophysics, Vol 1: Radiation The Physics of Astrophysics, Vol 2: Gas Dynamics #BookSky 💙📚 #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭

two books on the physics of astrophysics side by side on a cream surface, grey rug and the tops of two black sneakers seen at the bottom

Recent Order 2: Stars & Planets Where Will We Go When the Sun Dies? Apollo, Race to the Moon The Moonlandings The Age of Science Einstein's Legacy Visions of the Cosmos Atlas of the Universe #BookSky 💙📚 #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭

stack of astronomy books seen edge on sitting on a wooden table in a library.

Here are some recent orders to pique your interest... Recent Order 1: Messier Marathon The Cambridge Encyclopeida of Amateur Astronomy Observing Handbook & Catalogue of Deep-Sky Objects Atlas of Deep-Sky Splendors #BookSky 💙📚 #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭

stack of four astronomy books seen edge on, sitting on a wooden railing.

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Summer ✨ @sumrtime.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

ASP Library Sale ends THIS FRIDAY. Everything is $10, $5, or free (+shipping via media mail) Please save these books from being thrown in a bin!! (some will be donated, but likely not all will be accepted...) #BookSky 💙📚 #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭

Library with multiple wooden bookshelves filled with books.

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Want to learn more about Jupiter? Comets? Jupiter AND comets? I got you: www.asplibraryproject.com #BookSky 💙📚 #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭

Books about comets lined up on a wooden bookshelf

book called "Impact Jupiter: The Crash of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9" by David H. Levy with artist impression of a comet hitting the planet Jupiter

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Summer ✨ @sumrtime.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

One of my favorite shelves right now is these large format photos books... How do you like YOUR Universe? - dramatic? - amazing? - unfolding? - unveiled? - exploding? - evolving? Choose your own Universe here: www.asplibraryproject.com/blog/bookcas... #BookSky 💙📚 #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭

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Summer ✨ @sumrtime.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Almost all books now $20 and under (+ shipping media mail) Please give these books a forever home! www.asplibraryproject.com #BookSky 💙📚 #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭

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Today in book orders (con't): #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭 #BookSky 📚💙 The Cambridge Double Star Atlas (2009) The Study of Variable Stars Using Small Telescopes (1986) Observing Variable Stars (1989) David Levy's Guide to Variable Stars (2005)

photo of books laying on dark wood laminate table. From left to right: The Cambridge Double Star Atlas (spiral bound), The Study of Variable Stars Using Small Telescopes (cream colored hardcover), Observing Variable Stars (pink nebula in upper left corner), David Levy's Guide to Variable Stars (spiral galaxy in center).

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Today in book orders (con't): #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭 #BookSky 📚💙 A Reader/Study Guide for Carl Sagan's COSMOS (1980)

hand (with green nail polish on thumb) holding book with black cover that reads: A Reader/Study Guide for COMOS Carl Sagan. backgound shows bookshelves with books and floor is grey carpet.

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Today in book orders (con't): #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭 #BookSky 📚💙 Cosmology: The Origins and Evolution of Cosmic Structure (1995) The Moment of Creation (1983) The Big Bang (3rd Edition, 2000) Knots (2002) (2/2)

stack of books on wooden table in a library with bookshelves visible in the background. From bottom to top: Subatomic Particles, Astronomy and Cosmology: A Modern Course, Cosmology: The Origins and Evolution of Cosmic Structure, The Moment of Creation, The Big Bang 3rd Edition, Knots.

Today in book orders (con't): #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭 #BookSky 📚💙 I'm behind on posting ordrer so here are some that have gone out over the past month+ The Discover of Subatomic Particles, Scientific American Library (1983) Astronomy and Cosmology: A Modern Course (1975) (1/2)

Being alone out there isn't the only scary thing for an astronaut. Sentinels of the Sun (2006) The Earth's Magnetic Field (1983) Hazards of Space Travel (2007) #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭 #BookSky 📚💙 www.asplibraryproject.com/blog/artemis

book cover of "Sentinels of the sun: Forecasting Space weather" by Barbara B. Poppe with Kristen P. Jorden. Cover image shows artist renditions of the sun at the top (with flares coming off the surface) and the Earth visualized with its magnetosphere at the bottom.

book cover for "The Earth's Magnetic field: Its History, Origin, and Planetary Perspective" by Ronald T. Merrill and Michael W. McElhinny. Red text on black background (with light reflection from source of illumination). ancient compass drawing in white in center.

book cover of "the hazards of space travel: a tourist's guide" by Neil F/ Comins, Ph.D. white text on background of outer space with tiny astronaut in space suit in upper left corner, large space rock on right side, and glimpse of a red planet in lower left corner.

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One of the OG accounts of being cutoff from Earth and everything you've ever known while traveling across the far side of the Moon. And one of my all-time favorite reads. Carrying the Fire (1974) #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭 #BookSky 📚💙 www.asplibraryproject.com/blog/artemis

book held open to title pages for "Carrying the fire: and astronaut's journeys" by Michael Collins with forward by Charles A. Linbergh. Black text on off-white paper. three fingers visible holding the book open in the lower left corner.

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And fingers crossed this book will be updated with "Carroll" one day... 💔 Who's Who on the Moon (1995) #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭 #BookSky 📚💙 www.asplibraryproject.com/blog/artemis

book cover of "Who's Who on the Moon: A Biographical Dictionary of Lunar Nomenclature" by Elijah E. Cocks and Josiah C. Cocks. Text is in white on Royal blue background with image of the moon in the foreground and a crescent Earth in the background against the blackness of space.

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All about those beautiful craters ☄️🌝 Stones from the Stars (1980) Meteorite Craters (1987) Impact Geology (1985) Lunar Impact (NASA - Project Ranger, 1977) #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭 #BookSky 📚💙 www.asplibraryproject.com/blog/artemis

book cover for "Stones from the Stars: the Unsolved Mysteries of Meteorites" by T.R. LeMaire. Title text in red, subtitle in mauve, author in blue. All on black background with a streak illustrating a meteorite coming from the upper right corner to an impact explosion at the bottom.

book cover for "Meteorite Craters" by Kathleen Mark. Cover images shows artist rendition of the surface of a planet in space with no atmosphere. Planet is desert like with mountains in the distance, rocks in the foreground and an explosive impact as the focus of the image.

book cover for "Impact Geology" showing artist's rendition of a waterworld planet (like Earth) below with a large looming space rock above. Title text in white in the center.n

book cover for "Lunar Impact: A History of Project Ranger" by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Text in black on off-white cover. Black line drawing in the center of a spaceprobe over a cratered surface.

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The Moon up close and personal 🌚 A Survey of the Moon (1963) The Motion of the Moon (1988) The Face of the Moon (1949) The Structure of the Moon's Surface (1961) #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭 #BookSky 📚💙 www.asplibraryproject.com/blog/artemis

title page of "A Survey of the Moon" by Patrick Moore. Black text on off-white paper with an ink drawing of a telescope on a tripod.

book cover of "the Motion of the Moon" by Alan Cook. Aquamarine cover with image of the moon.

title and facing page of "The Face of the Moon" by Ralph B. Baldwin. Black text on off-white paper with rectangular outline. Facing page shows cratered surface of the Moon.

title and facing page of "Structure of the Moon's Surface" by Gilbert Fielder. Black text on off white paper. facing page shows image of the cratered surface of the Moon.

Our celestial dance partner 🌝 The Earth and Its Satellite (1971) Origin of the Earth and the Moon (2000) The Moon - Our Sister Planet (1981) #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭 #BookSky 📚💙 www.asplibraryproject.com/blog/artemis

title page of "The Earth and Its Satellite," edited by John Guest. black text on white paper.

book cover of "Origin of the Earth and Moon" - R.M. Canup, K. Righter, editors. White text on black background image showing distance bright star and molten, still forming Earth and Moon in foreground.

book cover of "the Moon - Our sisiter planet" by Peter Cadogan. Blue bold font for title, white for author. Image is of an astronaut exploring a boulder on the surface of the Moon.

The space-farers among us 🧑‍🚀👨‍🚀👩‍🚀 Men and Women of Space (1992) Humans in Space (1989) Who's Who in Space (1987) (*needs updating to include the amazing Artemis II crew!) Spacefaring (2001) #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭 #BookSky 📚💙 www.asplibraryproject.com/blog/artemis

book cover for "Men and Women of Space". title in red text on white background. Author "Douglas B. Hawthorn" in black text. Pencil sketch of Yuri Gagarin (first human in space) in center of cover.

cover of "Humans in Space: 21st Century Frontiers" by Harry L. Shipman. Background image of astronaut floating freely above Earth in the manned manuevering unit . title text in black, subtitle and author text in red.

book cover of "Who's Who in Space: The first 25 years" by Michael Cassbutt. Blue background with white text and black and white rectangular photos of astronauts across the bottom.

book cover of "spacefaring: the human dimension" by Albert A. Harrision. Black background with rectangular image of the Moon and a space station shown over a part of the planet Earth.

In Earth orbit 🌏💫 Orbital Motion (2nd ed, /3rd ed Living and Working in Space (1989) Working in Orbit and Beyond: Challenges for Space Medicine (1989) #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭 #BookSky 📚💙 www.asplibraryproject.com/blog/artemis

book cover for "Orbital Motion" second edition by A.E. Roy. Text in white with title in line art font with the letter "o" filled in as a solid white circle. Background is multicolor greens and blues in overlapping orbitals such as circles, ellipses, parabolas.

title page of "Living and Working in Space" by Ray Spangenburg and Diane Moser. Black text on white paper. Red outline of hardcover visible along edges.

book cover of "Working in Orbit and Beyond: The challenges for space medicine" Volume 72, Science and Technology Series. Light blue background for white and black text. Center rectangle shows black and white image of an astronaut doing a space walk on an antenna apparatus.

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Getting off the surface 🚀 A Spacefaring People (NASA, 1985) Rockets into Space (1990) Rocketry and Space Exploration (1958) Rocket Dreams (2003) #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭 #BookSky 📚💙 www.asplibraryproject.com/blog/artemis

book cover of "A Spacefaring people: perspectives on early spaceflight". background is blue ombre to white from bottom to top. Line drawings of the Wright Brothers flyer and a rocket plane in black and white.

book cover of "Rockets into Space" by Frank H. Winter. Title text in black on white background across top. Author text in white against light blue background across bottom. Center image of Saturn V rocket in process of launching with large rocket plumes forming to either side.

book cover for "Rocketry and Space Exploration: The international story" by Andrew G. Haley (all text in white on black background. Left side has verticle images of a rocket launching.

cover of "Rocket Dreams" by Marina Benjamin, subtitle: how the space age shaped our vision of a world beyond. Cover is blue ombre from darker at the edges to light in the center where there is an image of a rocket in a clear wine-esque glass bottle with a cork in it.

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Starting here at home with our beloved blue marble: The Home Planet (1988) The Story of the Earth (1985) Earth's Earliest Biosphere () The Earth as a Planet (1954) (by THE Kuiper!) #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭 #BookSky 📚💙 www.asplibraryproject.com/blog/artemis

book cover for "The Home Planet" showing the Earth from space on the right side against the blackness of space on the right side. Land mass, ocean, and clouds are visible on Earth. title text in white.

book cover for "The Story of the Earth" by Peter cattermole and Patrick Moore (text in white). Background image of a molten hot young earth with a large spacerock incoming and an impact explosion already in progress.

book cover of "Earth's Earliest Biosphere: Its Origin and Evolution" by J. William Schopf, Editor. Text in black and brown on tan background. Center rectangle shows two black and white images of early rocks with evidence for the existence of a biosphere.

book cover for "the earth as a planet" (The Solar System Volume II) edited by Gerard. P. Kuiper (all text in off white on black background). Center rectangle shows black and white image of Earth from space.