Astronomy from space : Sputnik to space telescope / edited by James Cornell and Paul Gorenstein.

Contributor Cornell, James, 1944-

Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1983.

Descriptionviii, 248 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:Prologue: Astronomy before the space age / Leo Goldberg -- Geology of the inner planets / James W. Head III -- Exploration of the moon / John A. Wood -- Voyager to the giant planets / Bradford A. Smith -- The new sun / Randolph H. Levine -- The ultraviolet sky / Andrea K. Dupree -- An X-ray portrait of our galaxy / Jonathan E. Grindlay -- X-rays beyond the Milky Way / Paul Gorenstein -- The future of space astronomy / George B. Field -- Epilogue: the rediscovery of earth / Ursula B. Marvin.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographies and index.

Note:"Early in 1982, anticipating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the launch of Sputnik I, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Hayden Planetarium of the Boston Museum of Science, with the support of the Lowell Institute, sponsored a series of eight public lectures on the general theme of scientific results from a quarter-century of space research. Those lectures, modified, expanded, and updates by the speakers themselves and complemented by Leo Goldberg's prologue, make up this book."-- Acknowledgments

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