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Near‐Earth Study Program Proposed for 1968–1975

MAR 01, 1969

DOI: 10.1063/1.3035466

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After the exploratory space surveys of the past ten years, it is time for coördinated satellite, space‐probe and rocket sounding missions to attack questions of fundamental physical mechanisms in the sun–earth system, according to a report issued by the Space Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences (Physics of the Earth in Space: A Program of Research, 1968–1975).

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Volume 22, Number 3

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