RARE \"Van Allen Radiation Belt” George Ludwig Handwritten Letter Dated 2006 COA For Sale

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RARE \"Van Allen Radiation Belt” George Ludwig Handwritten Letter Dated 2006 COA:
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Up for sale a RARE! "NASA George Ludwig Handwritten Letter Dated 2006.  This item is authenticated By Todd

Mueller Autographs and comes with their certificate of authenticity.

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George

H. Ludwig was the former

chief research scientist for the National

Aeronautics and Space Administration's satellite systems and

director of operations for the National

Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He played a key role in

adapting solid-state scientific research instruments for America's first

satellites: Explorer I, II, and III. George H. Ludwig was born on November 13, 1927, in Sharon

Center, Johnson County, Iowa, a son of George M. and Alice G. (Heim) Ludwig.

After graduating from high school in Tiffin, Iowa, in 1946, he served in the

U.S. Air Force, where he received training as an aviation cadet and attained

the rank of captain. A member of Phi Beta Kappa honor society, Ludwig completed three

degrees at the University of Iowa: a B.A.

cum laude in physics, 1956; an M.S. in physics, 1959; and a Ph.D. in electrical

engineering, 1960. On July 21, 1950, he married Rosalie F. Vickers, and the

couple had four children. While a graduate student during the late 1950s,

Ludwig, in collaboration with Prof. James A. Van Allen, established one of the

first spacecraft instrumentation laboratories, with its special techniques,

equipment, and performance requirements. He was principal developer of the

cosmic ray and radiation belt instruments for Rockoon and the successfully launched Explorers, I, III,

IV, VII and, in some cases, their spacecraft structures and subsystems. The

space-based instruments were all transistor, a first. He also served as a

research engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in

Pasadena, California for a five-month period following the October 1957 launch

of Sputnik I by the Soviet Union, in order to adapt Iowa scientific

instrumentation to the Explorer satellites. He was one of the co-discoverers of

the Van Allen Radiation Belts. Upon completing his doctorate in 1960, from the

University of Iowa, Dr. Ludwig joined the Goddard Space Flight

Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD as chief of the new fields and

particles instrumentation section. Later he was chief of the information

processing division and associate director of data operations. The Goddard

Space Flight Center (GSFC) was established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space

flight center and research laboratory. Its first 157 employees were transferred

from the United States Navy's Project Vanguard, but continued their work at the Naval Research Laboratory in

Washington, D.C., while the center was under construction. Dr. Ludwig served as

Project Scientist for NASA's Orbiting Geophysical

Observatory 1, 3 and 5, nicknamed "Street-Car", which

carried more than 60 instruments to conduct a wide variety of space science

investigations. During his 12-year career at Goddard his positions included

Project Scientist; Head, Instrumentation Section; Chief, Information Processing

Division, Mission and Data Operations Directorate; and Associate Director for

Data Operations. In 1972, Dr. Ludwig joined the National

Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which was created in 1970. Dr.

Ludwig became Director of Systems Integration for the newly established

National Earth Satellite Service in 1972 and, three years later, was named its

Director of Operations, becoming Technical Director in 1980. In 1981 he became

Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Environmental

Research Laboratories, a position he held for two years. Over the next ten

years working in Washington D.C. and Boulder, Colorado, he directed the design,

construction, and check-out of the Television

Infrared Observation Satellite TIROS-N/NOAA polar-orbiting

satellite system and many of the evolutionary improvements to the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)

system. Dr. Ludwig returned to NASA as the Assistant Chief Scientist, NASA,

Washington DC. He directed a critical examination of NASA space research data

management. He retired in 1984. From 1985 to 1991, Dr. Ludwig was a Senior

Research Associate at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and from 1989 to

1991 Visiting Senior Scientist for the California Institute of Technology,

stationed at NASA Headquarters. Dr. Ludwig led efforts to define the data and

information systems for the Global Change Research Program and early-Earth

Observing System. He consulted on space research and Space Station design.

Among his specialties were designs of radiation-detection instrumentation and

orbiting geophysical observatories. In 2004, on James Van Allen Day, in

celebration of Dr. Van Allen's 90th birthday celebration, Dr. Ludwig presented

a lecture on his contributions with the Iowa Group in the 1950s. He finished

the book, Opening Space Research; Dreams, Technology, and Scientific

Discovery, published by American Geophysical Union, shortly before his

death.

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