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Once Round the Sun is the story of the International Geophysical Year (IGY). Or more accurately, this book gives us an overview of the planning of the IGY and what the scientists hoped to accomplish. A thoroughly planned international effort was put forth in 1957 and 1958 to make an intensive study the Earth, climate and weather, ocean, outer atmosphere, and the sun. The book breaks this down in to two sections. Part one explains in laymans terms the state of scientific knowledge. And it points out what we dont know, but might find out via the IGY effort. Part two is a description of the methods, plans and nations involved in the IGY effort. And now, 50+ years later, this book is woefully out of date, but of some historical interest. It is fascinating to realize how far science has progressed in this time. Yet the foundations of modern knowledge existed in 1957. For example, the scientists of the IGY were aware of and concerned about global warming (p. 37) and shrinking glaciers (p. 118), although at that time the details of this problem were ill-defined. As a fan of space-flight history, I found the chapter on Rockets and Satellites enjoyable. It gave simple details of sounding rockets and Americas Vanguard Project to send the first satellite into orbit. There is brief mention of the Soviet plan to also launch satellites, but the focus was on the American efforts. This may have been simply because the Soviets were more secretive. As we all know, the Soviets put the first satellite into orbit late in 1957, beating the USA into orbit by several months.
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