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James Van Allen : the first eight billion miles

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

Author

Foerstner, Abigail, 1949-

Publication

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2007.

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xx, 322 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

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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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