| Description |
xx, 322 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [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. |
| Subject |
Van Allen, James A. (James Alfred), 1914-2006.
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Astrophysicists -- Iowa -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9780877459996 cloth alkaline paper |
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0877459991 cloth alkaline paper |
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