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“My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve a compelling cultural purpose and/or our national interest? Or does human spaceflight simply have a life of its own, without a realistic objective that is remotely commensurate with its costs? Or, indeed, is human spaceflight now obsolete?”

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James Van Allen
James Van Allen

James Van Allen was an accomplished American physicist known for his contributions to space physics. His research on the Earth's magnetosphere in the 1940s and 1950s, particularly his discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts, made him a pioneer in the field. more

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