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Book Title: Keep Watching The Skies!: The Story Of Operation Moonwatch A...
Number of Pages: 344 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Keep Watching the Skies! : the Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: United States / 20th Century, Physics / Astrophysics, Astronomy, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2008
Item Weight: 21 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.6 in
Subject Area: Technology & Engineering, Science, History
Author: W. Patrick Mccray
Item Width: 6.6 in
Format: Hardcover
