Keep Watching the Skies! : : The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age / / W. Patrick McCray.
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 ot...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 34 halftones. 4 line illus. |
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