Keep watching the skies! : the story of Operation Moonwatch & the dawn of the spage age /
McCray, Patrick(W. Patrick)
Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Astronomers
Amateur astronomy
Space race