Title:
James Van Allen the first eight billion miles / Abigail Foerstner.
Main Entry:
Foerstner, Abigail, 1949-
ebrary, Inc.
Publisher:
University of Iowa Press,
Publication Date:
c2007.
Publication Place:
Iowa City :
ISBN:
9780877459996 (cloth : alk. paper)
0877459991 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject:
Astrophysicists -- Iowa -- Biography.
Electronic books.
Van Allen, James A. (James Alfred), 1914-2006.
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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