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James Van Allen : the first eight billion miles / Abigail Foerstner.

by Foerstner, Abigail, 1949-

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Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2007.

Van Allen, James A. (James Alfred), 1914-2006.

Astrophysicists -- Iowa -- Biography.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0712/2007008870.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2007008870-d.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2007008870-b.html

9780877459996 (cloth : alk. paper) :

0877459991 (cloth : alk. paper)

xx, 322 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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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