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Title:
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Project Vanguard : the NASA history
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Authors:
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Constance McLaughlin Green, Author ;
Milton Lomask, Author
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Material Type:
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book
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Publisher:
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[S.l.] : Dover Publications, 2009
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ISBN / ISSN / EAN :
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978-0-486-46755-9
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Size:
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xx, 308 p. / ill. / 22 cm
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Bibliography note:
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Includes bibliographical references and incex
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Languages:
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English
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Class number:
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TL796.5.U6V35
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Subjects:
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Astronautics and state--United States--History
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Astronautics--History
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NASA--History
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Project Vanguard--History
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Space programs--United States--History
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Description:
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Vanguard: a history, this award-winning book deals with the origin, course of development, and results of the first American earth satellite project. Primarily an analysis of the scientific and technical problems in this pioneering venture in the exploration of outer space, the text also examines the organization of an undertaking bound by an inexorably fixed time limit, discusses briefly the climate of American opinion both before and after the launchings of the first Russian Sputniks, and concludes with a somewhat cursory evaluation of what the satellite program contributed to human knowledge.
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