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I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.
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I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
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My device was setup in my backyard and the other one math instructor Raymond Crilley was using in Iowa City.
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Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.
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These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.
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We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.
Biography
James Alfred Van Allen (born September 7 1914) is an American physicist associated with the University of Iowa. The Van Allen radiation belts were named after him, following the 1958 satellite missions (Explorer I and Explorer III) in which Van Allen had argued that a Geiger counter should be used to detect charged particles.
He told Democracy Now! that "I'm a critic of [manned space flights] in terms of the yield of either scientific results or any results from the human space flight program that's been very meager." (http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/15/1717211)
Honors
* Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1978 * Crafoord Prize in 1989 * Vannevar Bush Award in 1991
