The Upper Atmosphere Research Panel, also known as the V-2 Panel, was formed in 1946 to oversee experiments conducted using V-2 rockets brought to the United States after World War II. The experiments studied the upper atmosphere, solar radiation and X-ray astronomy, as well as the technology of the V-2 rocket.

Members

An organizing meeting was held at Princeton University 27 Feb 1946.

The original committee members were:

• Ernst Henry Krause, Naval Research Laboratory

• G. K. Megerian (secretary), General Electric Co.

• W. G. Dow, University of Michigan

• M. J. E. Golay, U.S. Army Signal Corps

• C. F. Green, General Electric Co.

• K. H. Kingdon, General Electric Co.

• M. H. Nichols, Princeton University

• James Van Allen, Johns Hopkins University

• Fred Lawrence Whipple, Harvard University

See also

• Operation Paperclip

• Hermes project

• List of V-2 test launches

• USA V-2 period

References

• , Encyclopædia Britannica

• , Smithsonian Institution