Keep watching the skies! the story of Operation Moonwatch & the dawn of the spage age
"When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957, thousands of ordinary people across the globe seized the opportunity to participate in the start of the Space Age. Known as the "Moonwatchers," these largely forgotten citizen-scientists helped professional astronomers by providing critical...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Princeton u.a.
Princeton Univ. Press
2008
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Geschichte 1900-2000
> Geschichte 1957-2007
> Astronomers / United States / History / 20th century
> Amateur astronomy / United States / History / 20th century
> Space race / United States / History
> Geschichte
> Amateur astronomy
> History
> Astronomers
> Space race
> USA
> Amateurastronom
> Kooperation
> Astronom
> Himmelsbeobachtung
> Satellit
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957, thousands of ordinary people across the globe seized the opportunity to participate in the start of the Space Age. Known as the "Moonwatchers," these largely forgotten citizen-scientists helped professional astronomers by providing critical and otherwise unavailable information about the first satellites. In Keep Watching the Skies!, Patrick McCray tells the story of this network of pioneers who, fueled by civic pride and exhilarated by space exploration, took part in the twentieth century's biggest scientific endeavor." "Drawing on previously unexamined letters, photographs, scrapbooks, and interviews, Keep Watching the Skies! recreates a pivotal event from a perspective never before examined - that of ordinary people who leaped at a chance to take part in the excitement of space exploration."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction: "THEY said it couldn't be done!" -- Cultures of observation -- An astronomical engineer -- Wanted: satellite spotters -- Of spacehounds and lunartiks -- Seeing history through a small telescope -- Amateurs provide strength on the bench -- Moonwatch grows up -- The legacy of Moonwatch |
| Beschreibung: | XIII, 308 S. Ill. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780691128542 0691128545 |