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020 _a9780511898075 (ebook)
020 _z9780521307833 (hardback)
020 _z9780521123389 (paperback)
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_beng
_erda
_cUkCbUP
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050 0 0 _aQB500.266.G7
_bM37 1986
082 0 0 _a500.5/0941
_219
100 1 _aMassey, Harrie Stewart Wilson,
_cSir,
_d1908-1983,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aHistory of British space science /
_cSir Harrie Massey, M.O. Robins.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c1986.
300 _a1 online resource (xxi, 514 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520 _aThis 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.
650 0 _aSpace sciences
_xResearch
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory.
700 1 _aRobins, M. O.
_q(Malcolm Owen),
_eauthor.
710 2 _aScience and Engineering Research Council (Great Britain),
_eissuing body.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521307833
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511898075
999 _c522282
_d522280