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... Space Flight Center 's Scientific Satellite Symposium, held by NASA in Washington, D.C., Dr. Van Allen said data from INJUN III and EXPLORER XIV satellites showed intensity at center of ... of artificial radiation would disappear by summer 1963. However, based on newly available data, Dr. Van Allen said artificial radiation would decrease in intensity by factor of three or four until ...

... radiation at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Seattle. Dr. Wolfe said the Van Allen radiation belts probably, had their source in the comet-like tail of the magnetosphere ... around earth and prevented it from penetrating directly to the relatively low altitudes of the Van Allen belts except during the more energetic solar storms. Satellite data also indicated that the ...

... sun and all other stars are moving away from the galactic center. Dr. James A. Van Allen , State University of Iowa physicist, criticized Government report on atmospheric radiation resulting from U ... bulk of artificially formed radiation would no longer be detectable by summer of 1963. Dr. Van Allen said President's Science Advisory Committee ignored findings from INJUN satellite (which he used ...

... two 6-and-a-half hour spacewalks to complete the repair. Mission specialists Dr. James Van Hoften and Dr. William Fisher spent about four hours August 28 checking out electronic gear ... satellite. Mission specialist John Lounge would work the robot arm from inside the cockpit, while van Hoften and Fisher worked outside on the satellite. The robot arm would play a crucial ... 35 feet above the cargo bay. Lounge would also use the robot arm to help van Hoften turn the satellite so Fisher, standing in foot restraints inside the bay, could remove ...

... on anything that would cause a problem. It's clean as a whistle,” He said. Van Hoften and Fisher were outside the Space Shuttle from about 8:00 a.m. to ... :00 p.m. EDT, breaking by one minute the spacewalk record set April 1984 by van Hoften and George Nelson when they repaired the scientific satellite Solar Max . Although the astronauts ... bar along the 20-foot length of the satellite to serve as a handle for van Hoften to spin the satellite and push it away from Discovery into space. It would ...

... ''' '''Pilot: Francis (Dick) Scobee''' Payload Commander: Mission Specialist 1: Terry Hart Mission Specialist 2: James van Hoften Mission Specialist 3: George Nelson Mission Specialist 4: Mission Specialist 5: Payload Specialist 1 ... ; EVA 2, 7 hours, 7 minutes. Manned maneuvering unit (MMU) operating time, Nelson 42 minutes, van Hoften 28 minutes. Payload Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) repair; manned maneuvering unit (MMU) satellite support ...

... ) Crew '''Commander: Joe H. Engle''' '''Pilot: Richard O. Covey''' Payload Commander: Mission Specialist 1: James van Hoften Mission Specialist 2: William F. Fisher Mission Specialist 3: John M. Lounge Mission Specialist ... duration was 170 hours 17 minutes 42 seconds. EVA Extravehicular Activity (EVA) conducted by James van Hoften and William Fisher during two spacewalks for a total of 11 hours, 46 minutes ...

... - First pick your planet Robert April. 216 - Discovery's penultimate voyage Ken Kremer and Gerard van de Haar. 219 - International Space Station Chronology George Spiteri. 224 - Politics of the first socialist ... Rob Coppinger. 372 - US space policy under spotlight Clive Simpson. 378 - Extending military capabilities Gerard van de Haar. 375 - Iconic images of Cape Canaveral origins Joel W. Powell . 380 - International Space ...

... this. We were doing Earth magnetic field studies. So, of course, when Dr. James A. Van Allen got going and discovered the radiation belts, we were right in this whole mess ... there would be radiation belts that had been found in there. When the Van Allen belts were discovered by Van Allen from Iowa City, which was our first satellite Explorer I that ... center up there, was also very, very prominent in a lot of the work with Van Allen and that sort of thing. So, you know, this was a marvelous situation because ...

... this. We were doing Earth magnetic field studies. So, of course, when Dr. James A. Van Allen got going and discovered the radiation belts, we were right in this whole mess ... there would be radiation belts that had been found in there. When the Van Allen belts were discovered by Van Allen from Iowa City, which was our first satellite Explorer I that ... center up there, was also very, very prominent in a lot of the work with Van Allen and that sort of thing. So, you know, this was a marvelous situation because ...

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