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Remembering Explorer 1 and James Van Allen In NASA’s “Gravity Assist” podcast, Jim Green, the agency’s director of Planetary Science, recalls his time as student under James Van Allen, the University of Iowa physicist who developed the science experiment that flew on the U.S.’s first successful satellite, Explorer 1. Green recounts some of the “secrets” […]