"...Outer space, once a region of spirited international competition, is also a region of international cooperation. I realized this as early as 1959, when I attended an international conference on cosmic radiation in Moscow. At this conference, there were many differing views and differing methods of attack, but the problems were common ones to all of us and a unity of basic purpose was everywhere evident" -- James Alfred Van Allen (b. 1914-09-07, d. 2006-08-09), after whom the Van Allen radiation belts are named
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