Overview
- Shows how NASA established and sustained a mission to study sea-level rise, a serious impact of climate change
- Examines the origins of NASA’s interest in the oceans in the 1960s and first true ocean satellite Seasat, in 1978
- Describes all aspects of creating that satellite, from how it was built to the people who worked on it
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology (PSHST)
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Book Title: NASA and the Politics of Climate Research
Book Subtitle: Satellites and Rising Seas
Authors: W. Henry Lambright
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40363-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40362-0Published: 10 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40365-1Due: 10 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-40363-7Published: 09 October 2023
Series ISSN: 2730-972X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9738
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 155
Topics: History of Science, History of Technology, Science and Technology Studies, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology