James Van Allen the first eight billion miles /
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| Natura: | Elettronico eBook |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
c2007.
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| Accesso online: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Sommario:
- Frontier roots
- Heartland boyhood
- The making of a scientist
- Physicists to the war effort
- Enter Abigail Fithian Halsey
- The dawn of space exploration
- The mighty little aerobee
- It's a rocket! It's a balloon! It's a rockoon!
- Sputnik and the space race
- Countdown to explorer I
- Celebrity scientist and the birth of NASA
- Discovery of the radiation belts
- Space shield for the Cold War
- Space as a cottage industry
- The mariners
- Pioneers to the outer planets
- Space politics
- Journey to the edge of the solar system.