Selected Structural Design Criteria Able-5.  Space Technologies Laboratories, Los Angeles, 1960. 

Printed on 11″x8.5″ sheets (on one side only), (2), 65pp, folding table. This is seems not to be published but distributed internally to Space Technology Laboratories (Ramo-Wooldridge Corp subsidiary), bound in a two-hole punch STL binding. Very Good condition.  $175

Includes the following sections: Specifications on Structural Design Criteria (35pp); Specifications for Control System Second Stages  (16pp); Specification for Force Control System, Second Stage Vehicle (16pp); Specifications for Third Stage ((5pp); Specifications for Temperature Control, Payload (3pp). 

“The first step beyond Earth orbit for the USAF, called Project Able-1, was a series of attempts to place a small spacecraft into orbit around the Moon. These orbiters, along with a pair of small US Army-JPL lunar flyby probes, were part of the ARPA-sponsored Operation Mona, which was approved by President Dwight Eisenhower on March 27, 1958. Three launch attempts made by the USAF between August and November of 1958, now called Pioneers 0, 1, and 2, all failed to reach the …But even before these missions flew, the USAF, in conjunction with the builders of their first lunar orbiters, STL (Space Technology Laboratory, a division of TRW), began to study follow-on missions not only to lunar orbit but also to Venus to be launched during the 1959 launch window…”—Andrew LePage, from his Drew Ex Machina site, “NASA’s Forgotten Lunar Project”