TY  - BOOK
AU  - Massey,Harrie Stewart Wilson
AU  - Robins,M.O.
ED  - Science and Engineering Research Council (Great Britain),
TI  - History of British space science
SN  - 9780511898075 (ebook)
AV  - QB500.266.G7 M37 1986
U1  - 500.5/0941 19
PY  - 1986///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Space sciences
KW  - Research
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
N2  - This book documents how a complex branch of science was started and encouraged to grow both nationally and internationally, as seen through the eyes of two authors who together played a major role in many of the events that they describe. It traces the beginning and subsequent development of a space science programme for British scientists from the early 1950s to the early 1980s, and gives the scientific, technological and administrative background whilst highlighting some of the outstanding successes of the programme. Cooperation with NASA in the United States is described in some detail, and the part played by Britain in establishing European cooperation in space science is outlined, as is the more modest cooperative programme with Commonwealth countries. This historical account will be of interest to all space scientists, geophysicists and astronomers, as well as to those concerned with the administration and organisation of large, co-operative scientific programmes
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511898075
ER  -