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b2773t96861	Teasel Elizabeth Muir-Harmony	Tracking Diplomacy: The International Geophysical Year and American Scientific and Technical Exchange with East Asia, 1955-1973	2010		.txt	text/plain	181	4	11	By examining the experience of American observers working at satellite tracking stations in Japan and India, this thesis argues that in order to understand the nature and impact of global scientific programs, the day-to-day workings of the scientific outposts, the backbone of the programs, have to be examined. At the beginning of the Space Age, under the auspices of the International Geophysical Year (IGY), the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) was chosen to develop a network of optical satellite tracking stations in a number of countries around the world.	cache/b2773t96861.txt	txt/b2773t96861.txt