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Shepherd, Gordon G., 1931-
Subjects
COSPAR -- History.
Astronautics -- Canada -- History.
Astronautics -- International cooperation -- History.
Aerospace engineers -- Canada -- Biography.
Outer space -- Exploration -- Canada -- History.
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Shepherd, Gordon G., 1931-
COSPAR -- History.
Astronautics -- Canada -- History.
Astronautics -- International cooperation -- History.
Aerospace engineers -- Canada -- Biography.
Outer space -- Exploration -- Canada -- History.
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Canada's fifty years in space : the COSPAR anniversary / by Gordon Shepherd and Agnes Kruchio.
by
Shepherd, Gordon G., 1931-
Apogee Books, c2008.
Call #:
629.40971 S548c
Subjects
COSPAR
--
History
.
Astronautics
--
Canada
--
History
.
Astronautics
--
International
cooperation
--
History
.
Aerospace engineers
--
Canada
--
Biography.
Outer space
--
Exploration
--
Canada
--
History
.
Series
Apogee Books space series ; 71.
URL856
Contributor biographical information
URL856
Publisher description
ISBN:
9781894959728
1894959728
Description:
280 p., [8] p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Chapter 1. The Beginning
--
The formation of COSPAR
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COSPAR's first meetings
--
Space science in the Canadian context
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The National Research Council of Canada
--
Chapter 2. Post-war Foundations of Space Science
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How Canadian space science began in 1925
--
Davies and Currie at Chesterfield Inlet
--
Donald Charles Rose
--
Henderson and Rose's 1932 ionospheric observations
--
The NRC during World War II and its impact on space science
--
Rose's wartime years
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A post-war NRC discovery - radio wave emission from the sun
--
Currie's wartime years
--
Davies' wartime years
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Formation of the Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment
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Chapter 3. Space Science Takes Root in Canada
--
Nate Gerson, a US benefactor, plants space science in Canada
--
Auroral radar reflections observed in Saskatoon
--
Optical studies and Gerson's AFCRL contract
--
Nate Gerson and the legacy of John Arthur (Jack) Jacobs
--
Sir Charles Seymour Wright
--
Gerson finds the University of Western Ontario
--
Colin Hines at Cambridge University
--
Prince Albert Radar Laboratory (PARL)
--
Chapter 4. The IGY and its New Moons
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How the IGY began
--
Canadian response to Sputnik
--
What lay behind the IGY?
--
Meteorology
--
Geomagnetism
--
Aurora
--
Ionospheric physics
--
Solar activity
--
Cosmic rays
--
Rockets and satellites
--
What was learned from the IGY?
--
The sun
--
The atmosphere
--
The Van Allen belts
--
The magnetosphere
--
What causes the aurora?
--
A personal reflection of the IGY
--
Chapter 5. The Sixties - a Decade of Exponential Growth
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The stimuli
--
The importance of the Defence Research Board
--
The Theoretical Studies Group at DRTE
--
The University of Saskatchewan
--
Formation of the Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies
--
The creation of SED Systems
--
The story of O[subscript 2] singlet delta
--
Hunten and alkali metals in the upper atmosphere
--
Currie steps down
--
Other universities
--
The Alouette/ISIS Program
--
A home-grown Canadian rocket program
--
Enhanced rocket instrumentation
--
Passive auroral plasma observations at the NRC
--
Auroral electron precipitation and ionospheric electric fields
--
Solar wind source for auroral ions
--
Transverse ion acceleration (TIA)
--
Polar cap aurora
--
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
--
Chapter 6. Decades of Transition
--
A Department of Communications
--
Impact of NASA's Space Shuttle on Canada
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A Grass-Roots Space Science Initiative
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The National Research Council takes charge
--
A maturing rocket program
--
Active experiments at the NRC
--
"Waterhole" auroral perturbation experiments
--
Echo auroral probes
--
Firewheel
--
Termination of the Churchill Research Range
--
The Apollo-Soyuz Docking - Another kind of Active Experiment
--
Space Shuttle science initiatives
--
The WAMDII and WINDII missions
--
COSPAR in Canada - 1982
--
Nuclear winter and the Defence Research Establishment Valcartier
--
STRATOPROBE - High altitude balloon flights
--
Canada begins an Astronaut Program
--
A Canadian Auroral Imager on the Swedish Viking satellite
--
SMS on Akebono
--
The Swedish Freja and Russian Interball Missions
--
Freja CPA
--
Freja and Interball Auroral Imagers
--
Chapter 7. Birth of the Canadian Space Agency
--
The CSA moves to St. Hubert
--
The astronaut program within the CSA
--
Microgravity in Space
--
STS-77 experiments
--
Soret coefficient in crude oil (SCCO)
--
Space Life Sciences
--
Aquatic Research Facility (ARF)
--
e-OSTEO
--
Canadian Protein Crystallization Experiment (CAPE)
--
Perceptual Motor Deficits In Space (PMDIS)
--
R ADARSAT
--
The
International
Space Station (ISS)
--
WINDII on UARS
--
Other Science missions under the CSA
--
Observations of Electric-field Distributions in the Ionospheric Plasma - a Unified Study (OEDIPUS)
--
Nozomi Thermal Plasma Analyser (TPA)
--
Termination of Space Plasma studies at NRC
--
Continuation of the Space Plasma Studies at the Univ. of Calgary
--
Nozomi Thermal Plasma Analyser (TPA)
--
Suprathermal Ion Imager (SII)
--
Imaging and Rapid scanning ion Mass spectrometer (IRM)
--
Rocket measurements of the Cosmic Background Radiation
--
Measurements of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT)
--
Ozone and the Odin mission
--
The SCISAT mission
--
SWIFT on Chinook
--
Ground-based space science
--
Chapter 8. Beyond the Earth
--
Very Long Baseline Interferometry - a Canadian invention
--
Space Astronomy
--
Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE)
--
Herschel
--
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
--
ASTROSAT
--
BLAST
--
MOST - an all-Canadian astronomy mission
--
Gravity Probe B mission to test Einstein's general relativity
--
Canada joins the Phoenix mission to Mars
--
Early background
--
MITCH
--
MATADOR
--
Phoenix begins
--
Chapter 9. Canada's Future in Space
--
Co-operation and competition in space
--
The Canadian space industry
--
How does one formulate a program?
--
Approaches by other countries
--
Canada's future
--
The benefits of space research
--
Steve MacLean and the
International
Space Station.
Other authors:
Kruchio, Agnes.
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