My life in space exploration / Gerhard Haerendel.
Haerendel, Gerhard, author.
2022
QB460.72.H34
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Title My life in space exploration / Gerhard Haerendel.
Author Haerendel, Gerhard, author.
ISBN 9783031102868 (electronic bk.)
303110286X (electronic bk.)
3031102851
9783031102851
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10286-8
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white, and color).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-10286-8 doi
Call Number QB460.72.H34
Dewey Decimal Classification 523.01092
Summary This book tells the inside story of Germany's first contributions to space research by experiments with artificial plasma clouds in space. In this autobiography, Gerhard Haerendel, former director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, describes his 60 adventurous years in space research. The narrative of exciting eventscovering 40 years of rocket and satellite workis underpinned with accessible accounts of the actual physical phenomena and processes involved. The reader also learns about how the goals set by a visionary astrophysicist eventually led to one of Germany's first major contributions to space research by the creation of artificial comets in the solar wind. Haerendel's efforts also led to two further satellite programs, one in partnership with Sweden, focusing on the aurora borealis, the other, a national German endeavor, to explore the outer border of the magnetosphere. A further interesting chapter concerns his engagement in the evaluation and restructuring of eastern German Academy institutes after reunification. All readers interested in space research and its history will enjoy sharing the fascinating experiences and dramatic events that accompany the story throughout, even some spectacular failures relating to rocket campaigns.
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Series Springer biographies.
Available in Other Form MY LIFE IN SPACE EXPLORATION.
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1. My way into physics
2. The assignment
3. Diverse paths
4. Years of harvest
5. Reflection.

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