Upper Atmosphere Research Panel

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

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An organizing meeting was held at Princeton University 27 Feb 1946.[1]

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

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* Operation Paperclip
* Hermes project
* List of V-2 test launches
* USA V-2 period

## References

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* Preparing for spaceflight, Encyclopædia Britannica
* Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research Panel (V-2 Panel) Reports, Smithsonian Institution

1. ^ Alan Stern. "Research and Education Missions for Next Generation Suborbital Flight (Slides)" (PDF). USRA Division of Space Life Sciences. p. 23.

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