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Nature 451, 523 (31 January 2008) | doi:10.1038/451523a; Published online 30 January 2008

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Van Allen remembered as belts turn 50

William E. Burrows1

BOOK REVIEWEDJames Van Allen: The First Eight Billion Miles

by Abigail Foerstner

University of Iowa Press: 2007. 322 pp. $37.50

An iconic photograph marking the start of the space age shows three men thrusting a satellite above their heads. William Pickering, James Van Allen and Wernher von Braun lofted a scale model of the Explorer 1 satellite at the US National Academy of Sciences barely two hours after the real thing went into orbit on the night of 31 January 1958.

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