"This big picture history of atmospheric research examines the first six decades of the twentieth century, from the dawn of applied fluid dynamics to the emergence, by 1960, of the interdisciplinary ...

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"Being able to send something out there would enable us to take a lot more precise data than we currently can." Self-lofting devices propelled by sunlight have been tested for the first time in ...