James Van Allen : the first eight billion miles / Abigail Foerstner.

Author
Foerstner, Abigail, 1949- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2007.
Description
xx, 322 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Bibliographic references
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9780877459996 (cloth : alk. paper)
    • 0877459991 (cloth : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2007008870
    OCLC
    85783398
    RCP
    N - O
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