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Keep watching the skies! : the story of Operation Moonwatch & the dawn of the spage age /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCray, Patrick (W. Patrick)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Astronomers > United States > History > 20th century.
Amateur astronomy > United States > History > 20th century.
Space race > United States > History.
Online Access:Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • 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.