04-August-2007, 04:02 AM
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Order of Kilopi
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Originally Posted by Moose
The rest of the answer is that Apollo wasn't the first object to enter the Van Allen belts.
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Wikipedia: Van Allen radiation belt
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The presence of a radiation belt had been proposed by Nicholas Christofilos prior to the Space Age and was confirmed by the Explorer I on January 31, 1958, and Explorer III missions, under Dr.James Van Allen at the University of Iowa. The trapped radiation was first mapped out by Sputnik 3, Explorer IV, Pioneer III and Luna 1.
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