TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foerstner,Abigail
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - James Van Allen: the first eight billion miles 
AV  - QB36.V357 F64 2007eb
U1  - 523.01092B 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Iowa City
PB  - University of Iowa Press
KW  - Van Allen, James A.
KW  - Astrophysicists
KW  - Iowa
KW  - Biography
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10354642
ER  -