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Title

Canada's fifty years in space : the COSPAR anniversary / by Gordon Shepherd and Agnes Kruchio.

Author

Shepherd, Gordon G., 1931-

Publication

Burlington, Ont. : Apogee Books, [2008], ©2008.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

Kruchio, Agnes.

Description

280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color); 26 cm.

Series Statement

Apogee Books space series ; 71

Uniform Title

Apogee Books space series ; 71.

Subjects

• Astronautics > Canada > History
• Aerospace engineers > Canada > Biography
• Astronautics > International cooperation > History
• COSPAR History
• Outer space > Exploration > Canada > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Chapter 1. The Beginning -- The formation of COSPAR -- COSPAR's first meetings -- Space science in the Canadian context -- The National Research Council of Canada -- Chapter 2. Post-war Foundations of Space Science -- 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 -- A post-war NRC discovery - radio wave emission from the sun -- Currie's wartime years -- Davies' wartime years -- Formation of the Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- A Grass-Roots Space Science Initiative -- 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.

ISBN

• 9781894959728
• 1894959728

LCCN

• 2008411375
• 99821213155

OCLC

• ocn227505730
• 227505730
• SCSB-5422974

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries