WRONG JUPITER
Your obituary for James Van Allen paid proper homage to a space pioneer (AW&ST Aug. 14, p. 17). However, you misidentified the launch vehicle used for the Explorer I satellite. Jupiter-C was a variant of the Redstone missile, not the Jupiter intermediate-range ballistic missile. The confusion stems...
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