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SOUNDING ROCKETS Their Role in Space Research Committee on Rocket Research SPACE SCIENCE BOARD National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council February l969
SPACE SCIENCE BOARD H. H. Hess, Chairman Luis W. Alvarez Allan H. Brown Loren D. Carlson John W. Findlay Herbert Friedman John S. Hall Francis S. Johnson William M. Kaula Donald B. Lindsley Gordon J. F. MacDonald Nicholas U. Mayall Courtland D. Perkins Richard W. Porter William W. Rubey Leonard I. Schiff James A. Van Allen Wolf Vishniac Martin A. Pomerantz (ex officio) G. A. Derbyshire, Executive Secretary Committee on Rocket Research Francis S. Johnson, Chairman Charles A. Barth University of Colorado Sidney A. Bowhill University of Illinois Laurence J. Cahill, Jr. University of Minnesota Talbot A. Chubb Naval Research Laboratory Thomas M. Donahue University of Pittsburgh Richard S. Lindzen University of Chicago Donald C. Morton Princeton University A. 0. C. Nier University of Minnesota Brian J. O'Brien Rice University Lloyd V. Wallace Kitt Peak National Observatory William C. Bartley, SSB Staff Secretary Contributors Warren W. Berning Defense Atomic Support Agency Philip E. Gustafson U. S. Air Force John R. Holtz National Aeronautics & Space Administration Thomas A. Seliga National Science Foundation L. B. Smith U. S. Army
CONTENTS Introduction l Notable Scientific Results of Rocket Research 1 Major Scientific Questions Likely to be Answered by Rocket-borne Experiments 2 The Role of Sounding Rockets in Scientific Research 5 Sounding Rockets as an Educational Tool 8 Funding for Rocket Research 9 Recommendations l0 Appendix--Rocket Results l965-l968 Astronomy and Solar Physics l5 Magnetic and Electric Fields 23 Energetic Particles 26 Ionospheric Physics 30 Aurora and Airglow 38 Aeronomy 42