Origins Of Magnetospheric Physics: An Expanded Edition Book

Contents Preface to the Paperback Edition....................2
Preface to the 1983 Edition....................6
Acknowledgments....................8
I. Scientific Heritage....................9
II. The U.S. Program of Rocket Flights of Scientific Equipment....................15
III. Rockoon Flights from Baffin Bay to the Ross Sea....................21
IV. Remarks on the Period 1946-57....................31
V. Plans for Scientific Work with Artificial Satellites of the Earth....................33
VI. Sputnik I....................43
VII. Discovery of the Inner Radiation Belt of the Earth-Explorers I and III....................49
VIII. The Argus Tests....................73
IX. Early Confirmations of the Inner Radiation Belt and Discovery of the Outer Radiation Belt-Explorer IV and Pioneers I, II, III, IV, and V....................85
X. Related Work with Sputniks II and III and Luniks I, II, and III....................93
XI. Second Generation Investigations and Advances in Physical Interpretation....................101
Appendixes A. Proposal for Cosmic Ray Observations in Earth Satellites, 1955....................122
B. Correspondence Regarding Pravda Article, 1959....................128
Bibliography....................131