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Science with a Vengeance: How the Military Created the U.S. Space Sciences After World War II
Science with a Vengeance How the Military Created the US Space Sciences After World War II
Author: David H. DeVorkin
With the end of World War II and the transfer to much of the remaining stock of German V-2 rockets to the US, a glorious opportunity for research opened up, to study the physics and chemistry of the upper atmosphere as well as the ultraviolet radiation that does not penetrate to the surface of the Earth. Within a very few years, a very active ci...  more »
ISBN-13: 9783540977704
ISBN-10: 3540977708
Pages: 416
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Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Book Type: Paperback
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