How radio astronomers challenged national borders, disciplinary boundaries, and the constraints of vision to create an international scientific community.

David Munns's book was an eye-opener for me. Even as a radio astronomer myself, I did not know most of the details in this fabulous story. I recommend this book as a great case study on how international cooperation and scientific openness leads to fantastic discoveries and a good deal of fun. -- Alyssa Goodman, Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University Before there could be an endeavor called "radio astronomy," there had to be people who considered themselves "radio astronomers," sitting uneasily amid better-established disciplines like physics, electrical engineering, and optical astronomy. For their new enterprise to flourish, these same people had to carve out effective means to propagate their skills, methods, and mores to a new generation. David Munns follows their efforts across several continents--as they build instruments, institutions, and a community--and provides a fascinating glimpse of a science in the making. Illuminating. -- David Kaiser, Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science, MIT In A Single Sky David Munns accomplishes two important feats: He shows us how the radio telescope emerged out of the ashes of World War II as an essential new scientific instrument which offered researchers and the public a novel view of the cosmos, and at the same time tells an engaging account of radio astronomers' successful efforts to create an international research community that prized collaboration and transcended traditional disciplinary boundaries. -- W. Patrick McCray, University of California, Santa Barbara