James Van Allen: The First Eight Billion Miles

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contents Preface and Acknowledgments, ix Introduction, xv Abbreviations and Acronyms, xix 1 Frontier Roots, 1 2 Heartland Boyhood, 16 3 The Making of a Scientist, 35 4 Physicists to the War Effort, 50 5 Enter Abigail Fithian Halsey, 67 6 The Dawn of Space Exploration, 75 7 The Mighty Little Aerobee, 93 8 It’s a Rocket! It’s a Balloon! It’s a Rockoon!, 106 9 Sputnik and the Space Race, 122 10 Countdown to Explorer I, 142 11 Celebrity Scientist and the Birth of NASA, 161 12 Discovery of the Radiation Belts, 175 13 Space Shield for the Cold War, 187 14 Space as a Cottage Industry, 200 15 The Mariners, 213 16 Pioneers to the Outer Planets, 229 17 Space Politics, 248 18 Journey to the Edge of the Solar System, 265 Notes, 277 Selected Bibliography, 295 Index, 301 ...