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Space Primer, TRW Systems Educational tour of universe early satellites booklet
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Description
Space Primer by TRW Systems. An educational, perhaps human resourses marketing booklet.The booklet begins with "Welcome to Your Universe -- You can touch a star" and concludes with "A Word About TRW Systems," a brief company overview with an invitation to write to TRW Systems Group, Marketing Communicarions, One Space Park... enlarge photos 3 and 4 to read
24-pages
Approximately 11-1/4" x 8-1/2"
Text: C. Rubin
Design: F. Warren
1974 (If 20M 1-74 on the inside back cover is a date reference. See photo 4.)
Inside cover has a photo of Jupiter taken by Pioneer on Dec. 2, 1973 (See photo 3.)
View all photos for condition. Note bottom staple on front inside cover photo.
Section Headings:
Our Spacecraft "Our vehicle during this cosmic journey is spacecraft earth."
The Sun: The Planet's Power Plant
Getting There
Terrestrial Planets
Jovian Planets
Asteroids and Comets
Outside the Solar System
The Universe
Life
Enlarge photo 5 for a sample of text.
Back cover (See photo 2.): Brief TRW satellite overview and drawings
DSCS II Worldwide military communications...for the Defense Department..
Intelsat III Designed for international commercial communications...
Veta...Originally designed to detect illegal nuclear explosions...
OGO IV (Orbiting Geophysical Observatiries) to measure the effects of solar flares, meteoroids, etc. on earth's atmosphere and magnetic field.
Pioneer Jupiter..."TRW has been building a variety of Pioneer spacecraft since the beginning of the program in 1958."