As soon as we started looking at them, we saw the most rema… - James A. Van Allen

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As soon as we started looking at them, we saw the most remarkable situation. My first thought was, "Great guns! Something's gone wrong with the apparatus!" But then we got later North American tapes and everything seemed normal again.

James A. Van Allen

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James Van Allen (7 September 1914 – 9 August 2006) was a space scientist who was instrumental in the early space program of the United States.

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Alternative Names: James Alfred Van Allen

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A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working.

I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work with rockets and balloons. I'm a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer."

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