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AUTHOR
Arturo Russo
The space age and the origin of space research
The exploration of space is one of the greatest achievements of the twentieth century. In the ideal photo album of this century one could hardly avoid including such pictures as our blue planet seen from space and the human footprint on the Moon’s surface; the close-up images of a comet’s nucleus and the rough landscape of Mars; the floating of astronauts in the black vacuum around a space station and the rings of Saturn photographed from an approaching spacecraft.
Il dibattito Bohr-Einstein sui fondamenti della meccanica quantistica
Termodinamica e storia: un'esperienza didattica
Science in space vs space science: The European utilisation of spacelab∗
Abstract Spacelab is the conventional name given to a manned laboratory to be carried onboard NASA's Space Shuttle, which was built in Europe under the aegis of the European Space Agency (ESA). This paper deals with the initiatives undertaken in Europe to establish a utilisation programme for Spacelab, in particular for its first flight, planned as a joint ESA/NASA demonstration mission. Two main factors will be discussed, which prevented ESA from establishing a sizeable Spacelab utilisation effort. Firstly, owing to the cost escalation of the Spacelab development programme and to NASA's charging policy for access to the Shuttle system, which did not foressee any preferential treatment to E…
La scoperta delle onde di materia
I raggi cosmici e la scoperta di nuove particelle
Il filo di Ariane: la nascita dell'Europa spaziale
La fisica europea al tempo della ricerca spaziale
Europe spreads its wings
In The early 1960s a number of European governments, in consultation with scientists, engineers and industrialists, decided to enter space. To compete with the superpowers was, of course, out of the question – Europe had neither the resources nor the political interest to get involved in the space race. It was deemed possible, however, to pool the resources of the most industrialized European nations to support a limited effort in this important scientific and technological field.