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BL
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| Record Number
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638873
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Foerstner, Abigail,1949-
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| Title & Author
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James Van Allen : : the first eight billion miles /\ Abigail Foerstner.
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| Page. NO
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xx, 322 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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9780877459996 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0877459991 (cloth : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-306) and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Subject
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Van Allen, James A., (James Alfred),1914-2006.
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| Subject
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Astrophysicists-- Iowa, Biography.
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| Dewey Classification
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523.01092
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B
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| LC Classification
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QB36.V357F64 2007
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