BEYOND THE ATMOSPHERE: EARLY YEARS OF SPACE SCIENCE

From the rocket measurements of the upper atmosphere and sun that began in 1946, space science gradually emerged as a new field of scientific activity. During the period between the orbiting of Sputnik I and the creation of NASA, these activities - scientific research in the high atmosphere and outer space -began to be thought of as space science. For those able to penetrate beneath the impersonal exterior that science so often seems to present to the outsider, the whole gamut of human emot...