James Van Allen : the first eight billion miles /

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Astrophysicist and space pioneer James Van Allen (1914-2006), for whom the Van Allen radiation belts were named, was among the principal scientific investigators for twenty-four space missions, including Explorer I in 1958, the first successful U.S. satellite; Mariner 2's 1962 flyby of Venus, t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Foerstner, Abigail, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Van Allen, James A. > (James Alfred), > 1914-2006.
Van Allen, James A. > (James Alfred), > 1914-2006
Astrophysicists > Iowa > Biography.
Astrophysiciens > Iowa > Biographies.
SCIENCE > Physics > Astrophysics.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
SCIENCE > General.
Astrophysicists
Iowa
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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