- Description
- 1 online resource (xx, 322 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- James Van Allen (Online)
- Alternative Title
- James Van Allen (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-306) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2007008870
- OCLC
- ssj0000184930
- Author
Foerstner, Abigail, 1949-
- Title
James Van Allen [electronic resource] : the first eight billion miles / Abigail Foerstner.
- Imprint
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2007.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-306) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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