02768nam 2200577 a 450 991097274670332120200520144314.097815872972051587297205(CKB)1000000000575945(EBL)843137(OCoLC)294903795(SSID)ssj0000184930(PQKBManifestationID)11168052(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000184930(PQKBWorkID)10206871(PQKB)10236057(MiAaPQ)EBC843137(MdBmJHUP)muse9199(Au-PeEL)EBL843137(CaPaEBR)ebr10354642(Perlego)2956916(EXLCZ)99100000000057594520070301d2007 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrJames Van Allen the first eight billion miles /Abigail Foerstner1st ed.Iowa City University of Iowa Pressc20071 online resource (377 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780877459996 0877459991 Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-306) and index.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.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, the first successful mission to another planet; and the 1970's Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11, missions that surveyed Jupiter and Saturn. Abigail Foerstner blends space science, drama, military agenda's, cold war politics, and the events of Van Allen's lengthy career to create the first biography of this highlAstrophysicistsIowaBiographyAstrophysicists523.01092BFoerstner Abigail1949-1803636MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910972746703321James Van Allen4351271UNINA