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James Van Allen: The First Eight Billion Miles

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Astrophysicist and space pioneer James Van Allen (1914-2006), for whom the Van Allen radiation belts were named, used to be a number of the principal scientific investigators for twenty-four space missions, including Explorer I in 1958, the primary successful U.S. satellite; Mariner 2′s 1962 flyby of Venus, the primary successful mission to every other planer; and the 1970’s Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11, missions that surveyed Jupiter and Saturn. Drawing on Van Allen’s correspondence and publications, years of interviews with him in addition to with more than a hundred other scientists, and declassified documents from such archives as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Kennedy Space Center, and the Applied Physics Laboratory. Incessantly known as the daddy of space science, Van Allen led find out how to mapping a new solar system in response to the solar wind, massive solar storms, and cosmic rays. Foerstner’s compelling biography charts the eventful life and times of this trailblazing physicist.

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