New Cosmic Horizons
Subtitle: Space Astronomy from the V2 to the Hubble Space Telescope
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 507
ISBN-13: 9780521658331
Subjects: Astronomy, Space & Time; Astrophysics; Science; Science/Mathematics; Astronomy - General; Science / Cosmology; Space astronomy--History; Outlet; History; General; Space astronomy
First sentence: Just before the end of the Second World War, as the Allies were tightening their net on Nazi Germany, the Germans decided to move all 4,000 staff of their V2 rocket research establishment at Peenemunde on the Baltic coast to a safer location in the south of the country.