Space Scientist JAMES VAN ALLEN, SIGNED Memoir 1998

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Space Scientist JAMES VAN ALLEN, SIGNED Memoir 1998
Space Scientist JAMES VAN ALLEN, SIGNED Memoir 1998
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JAMES A. VAN ALLEN, “WHAT IS A SPACE SCIENTIST? AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL EXAMPLE”
Offprint from 1990 Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science. 27 pp. Frontispiece portrait (with facsimile signature). Stapled, without wrappers, as issued,
SIGNED and dated Oct. 28, 1998, on a blank leaf preceding the title page.
As chairman of an upper atmosphere rocket research panel before the creation of NASA, physicist Van Allen first suggested equipping a satellite with a Geiger counter for investigation of cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere. After the Sputnik satellite launch put the USSR ahead of the United States in the space race, Van Allen, together with Wernher Von Braun and William Pickering were instrumental in launching Explorer 1, America’s first scientific satellite, into earth orbit. It confirmed the existence of an area of charged particle radiation trapped by the Earth’s magnetic field, extending from several hundred miles above the planet to several thousand miles into space – the now-famous Van Allen radiation belts.
This monograph is the closest Van Allen, who died in 2006, came to writing a full autobiography. It is rarely found signed.
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