Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From the big bang to the Nobel prize and on to the James Webb space telescope / John C. Mather
  • Global climate change and human causes / Ralph J. Cicerone
  • Science goes to the moon and planets : celebrating 50 years since the IGY / Wesley T. Huntress, Jr.
  • Leaving the planet : science and technology results on the international space station / Carl E. Walz
  • The possibility of life elsewhere in the universe / Christopher F. Chyba
  • Understanding the poles of earth, the moon, and mars / Christopher Rapley
  • Voyager's journey to the edge of interstellar space / Edward C. Stone
  • Future of space and earth robotic exploration : scientific and technological challenges and opportunities / Charles Elachi
  • Explorer 1 : gateway to the never ending wonders of space science / The space studies board Van Allen lecture delivered by Frank B. McDonald
  • Appendix A, The international geophysical year
  • Appendix B, The space studies board
  • Appendix C, Program of public events.