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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Chit Chat _ In Memoriam

Posted by: David Aug 9 2006, 03:21 PM

Physicist James Van Allen, designer of the experiments of the early American satellites Explorer 1 and Explorer 3 that discovered the Van Allen belts, died last night (August 8, 2006) at the age of ninety-one.

Posted by: PhilCo126 Aug 9 2006, 05:55 PM

Amazing news ... I wish his family strength in these difficult times!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Van_Allen

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