Keep Watching the Skies! : The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age /

When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957, thousands of ordinary people across the globe seized the opportunity to participate in the start of the Space Age. Known as the "Moonwatchers," these largely forgotten citizen-scientists helped professional astronomers by providing critical and ot...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCray, W. Patrick (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Temas:
Amateur astronomy > United States > History > 20th century.
Astronomers > United States > History > 20th century.
Space race > United States > History.
SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Organizations and People
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Cultures of Observation
  • Chapter 2 An Astronomical Engineer
  • Chapter 3 Wanted: Satellite Spotters
  • Chapter 4 Of Spacehounds and Lunartiks
  • Chapter 5 Seeing History through a Small Telescope
  • Chapter 6 Amateurs Provide Strength on the Bench
  • Chapter 7 Moonwatch Grows Up
  • Chapter 8 The Legacy of Moonwatch
  • Explanation of Sources Used
  • Notes to the Chapters
  • Index

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