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Beyond the Atmosphere: Early Years of Space Science
by Homer E. Newell, Jr.

ISBN: 048647464X
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This exciting survey of the American space science program is the work of a top NASA administrator. Ranging from the laboratory to launching pad and from international conference halls to lunar wastelands, it chronicles technological advances, explores the relationship of space science to general science, and places the space program in a broader social, political, and economic context.
Homer E. Newell was instrumental in the founding of NASA and worked for the agency from its inception until 1973. In the early 1960s, he influenced or directly controlled virtually all of the free world's nonmilitary unmanned space missions. Newell's insider perspective offers fascinating insights into the personalities, opinions, and steady advance of ideas that characterize the U.S. space program.

Table of Contents for Beyond the Atmosphere: Early Years of Space Science
Introduction to the Dover Edition
Preface
1. The Meaning of Space Science
2. The Context
3. Prophets and Pioneers of Spaceflight
4. The Rocket and Satellite Research Panel: The First Space Scientists
5. The Academy of Sciences Stakes a Claim
6. Early Harvest: The Upper Atmosphere and Cosmic Rays
7. Response to Sputnik: The Creation of NASA
8. NASA Gets under Way
9. External Relations
10. Rockets and Spacecraft: Sine Qua Non of Space Science
11. Deepening Perspective: A New Look at the Old World
12. Who Decides?
13. The Universities: Allies and Rivals to NASA
14. Programs, Projects, and Headaches
15. Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Outsider or Insider?
16. Life Sciences: No Place in the Sun
17. Leadership and Changing Times
18. International Ties
19. Space Science and Practical Applications
20. Continuing Harvest: The Broadening Field of Space Science
21. Objectives, Plans, and Budgets
22. Review and Assessment
Appendixes
Bibliographical Essay
Source Notes
Index