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: Hardcover
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780521651370
Subjects: Astrophysics; Cosmology & the universe; History of science; Space travel & exploration; Space astronomy; Science; Science/Mathematics; Astronomy - General; Science / Cosmology; Space astronomy--History; Astrophysics & Space Science; History
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.