Foerstner, Abigail,  1949- <br/><br/>
James Van Allen  the first eight billion miles /  [electronic resource] : 
Abigail Foerstner. 
 - Iowa City :  University of Iowa Press,  c2007. 
 - xx, 322 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-306) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Van Allen, James A. 1914-2006. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Astrophysicists--Iowa--Biography.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QB36.V357  / F64 2007eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>523.01092  B