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James Van Allen : the first eight billion miles / Abigail Foerstner.
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Foerstner, Abigail, 1949-
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English
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Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2007.
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xx, 322 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Van Allen, James A. (James Alfred) 1914-2006
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Astrophysicists
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Iowa
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Biography
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-306) and index.
Contents
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.
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ISBN
9780877459996 (cloth : alk. paper)
0877459991 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007008870
OCLC
85783398
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N - O
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