James A. Van Allen

James A. Van Allen died yesterday age 91.

Van Allen made the first great discovery of the space age, with his instruments on the very first american spacecraft, Explorer 1. The largest Earthly “object”, the Van Allen radiation belt, is named after him.

http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/vanallen.html

It sad to see one of the last great space age pioneers passing on.

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  1. Van Allen made the first great discovery of the space age, with his instruments on the very first american spacecraft, Explorer 1. The largest Earthly “object”, the Van Allen radiation belt, is named after him.
    Good!!

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