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... a project using more than 40 high-altitude balloons to capture data about Earth’s Van Allen Belts . The Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses (BARREL) would fly in ... satellite mission, the balloons would use sensors to measure the influx of radiation from the Van Allen Belts into Earth’s atmosphere. Millan and her team would repeat the procedure with ... , 5 December 2007, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/dec/HQ_07265_Balloons_and_Van_Allen_Belts.html (accessed 20 October 2007); Kristen Senz, “Dartmouth Professor Gets $9.3 Million ...

... ); and ''Rockets into Space'' (Harvard University Press, 1991). He also co-authored, with Frank R. van der Linden, ''100 Years of Flight: A Chronicle of Aerospace History 1903-2003'' (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2003), and, with van der Linden and Dominick Pisano, ''Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 — Breaking the Sound ...

... to a great Russian rocket engineer. 104-106 - Watching Andre Kuipers' training Gerard van de Haar and Rudolf van Beest spent time with the latest ESA astronaut during his training in Russia ... ; Hitler's Rocket Soldiers; Planetary Surface Processes; Space Exploration and Humanity – A Historical Encyclopedia: James Van Allen – The first Eight Billion Miles. 230-231 - Letters 232-233 - Society News – BIS Vision ...

... , 500 feet wide. It was interesting. We were working doing the sounding rockets into the Van Allen Belt. That was the purpose of checking the radiation from the detonation of some nuclear devices out in the Pacific to see. James A. Van Allen was a doctor out of Iowa that had certain theories about this belt that ... to do. So the Air Force took it upon their own to really study this Van Allen Belt, and fired some from Johnson Island. Then we went to the East Coast ...

... measure the ultraviolet radiation in the upper atmosphere. He was associated with Dr. James A. Van Allen and how the early belts were discovered. So we were building a lot of ... was the first atmospheric explorers and all of the work that Jim Van Allen did on developing the understanding of Van Allen Belts. They worked through the Goddard Space Flight Center. Space ...

... , Texas --Northbrook High School/Spring Branch Independent School District in Houston --Van Alstyne High School/Van Alstyne Independent School District in Van Alstyne, Texas "For years NSTA and NASA have enjoyed a strong ...

... a position with Bell aircraft's rocket division. ix In 1951 Stehling wrote to James van Allen and encouraged him to pursue the use of balloons to launch a rocket into ... childhood in Germany; he also understood rockets, making him a rare breed at that time. Van Allen seems to be universally credited with the original idea of balloon launch, but it ... since at least the 1930s and would become known as a "''rockoon''." x Stehling and Van Allen soon began a series of tests with rockoons with the University of Iowa. xi ...

... Journal of Navigation and Observation, Volume 2011, Article ID 973656, 5 pages, 2011. 3 R. Van Der Pryt and R. Vincent, “A Simulation of the Reception of Automatic Dependent Surveillance -Broadcast ... -B) Signals in Low Earth Orbit”, International Journal of Navigation and Observation, 2015. 4 R. Van Der Pryt and R.Vincent, A Simulation of Signal Collisions over the North Atlantic for ...

... most important contributors include Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, A. E. Van Vogt, Poul Anderson, Larry Niven, Kim Stanley Robinson, Pamela Sargent and others whose work typically ... ), and ''I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spacecraft '' (2002), David Bowie; ''Moon-dance '' (1970), Van Morrison; ''Blows against the Empire '' (1970), Jefferson Starship This is my personal favorite and was ...

... you go down the elevator with your two friends and you get in a transfer van and you go over to the pad and you go up that tower and you ... decided to investigate further. On a trip from Huntsville to Cape Canaveral using a passenger van, I convinced seven NASA engineers to try reading while wearing eye patches. Although these engineers ... forming a line on each side of us, stretching all the way to the crew van that drove us to the launch pad. I noticed that several of the engineers who ...

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