Keep Watching the Skies!: The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age

by W. Patrick McCray

Book Overview

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 otherwise unavailable information about the first satellites. In Keep Watching the Skies!, Patrick McCray tells the story of this network of pioneers who,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691128545
• ISBN13: 9780691128542
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.2"