4: The rocket and satellite research panel: the first space scientists --

The V-2 Panel --

The need to replace the V-2 --

Scope of panel activity --

International contacts --

The IGY satellite program --

Ch. 5: The Academy of Sciences stakes a claim --

Ch. 6: Early harvest: the upper atmosphere and cosmic rays --

The threshold to space --

Problems to solve --

The harvest --

Significance --

Part III: Setting the course --

Ch. 7: Response to Sputnik: the creation of NASA --

Ch. 8 NASA gets under way --

Organization --

Staffing --

Program --

Ch. 9: External relations --

Department of Defense --

Academy of Sciences --

President's Science Advisory Committee --

Publication of results --

Universities --

Scientific societies --

Ch. 10: Rockets and spacecraft: sine qua non of space science --

Launch vehicles --

Spacecraft --

Hard-learned lessons --

Costs --

Ch. 11: Deepening perspective: a new look at the old world --

The magnetosphere --

Significance --

Satellite geodesy --

Significance --

Part IV: Love-hate relationships --

Ch. 12: Who decides? --

Space Science Board --

NASA's advisory committees --

Space Science Panel --

The scientists decide --

Ch. 13: The universities: allies and rivals to NASA --

Stepping up the pace --

Experimental program: facilities grants and memos of understanding --

Experimental program: research institutes --

A slower pace --

Ch. 14: Programs, projects, and headaches --

The character of the field centers --

Field versus headquarters --

Strains on the family tie --

Ch. 15: Jet Propulsion Laboratory: outsider or insider? --

The question of responsiveness --

Moon and planets --

Accommodation --

Ch. 16: Life sciences: no place in the Sun --

Ch. 17: Leadership and changing times --

NASA's administrators --

Manned space science --

Finding the way out --

Part V: The scope of space science --

Ch. 18: International ties --

Political context --

NASA International Program --

Cooperation with western countries --

The Soviet Union --

Escalation --

Ch. 19: Space science and practical applications --

Ch. 20: Continuing harvest: the broadening field of space science --

Space science as integrating force --

Exploration of the Solar System --

Investigation of the universe --

Part VI: Future course --

Ch. 21: Objectives, plans, and budgets --

Plans --

Budgets --

The Space Shuttle --

Ch. 22: Review and assessment --

Organization and management --

Individual and institutional relations --

The scientific process and space science --

Future course --

Appendixes --

A: Membership of Rocket and Satellite Research Panel --

B: Typical distribution of RSRP reports --

C: Meetings of Rocket and Satellite Research Panel --

D: RSRP proposals for a national space program --

E: Original membership of the U.S. National Committee for the International Geophysical Year --

F: Membership of the Space Science Board, 1958-1972 --

G: Reports from Space Science Board Summer Studies --

H: Advisers attending NASA's first University Program Conference, 1961 --

I: Meeting of physicists at Airlie House, Warrenton, Virginia, 1963 --

J: Statement by President Nixon on the space program 7 March 1970 --

K: Glossary --

Bibliographic essay --

Source notes --

Index --

The author.