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Dan Alderson was an [[LA]] [[fan]] and member of [[LASFS]].  He worked at JPL and wrote navigation software for the Voyager spacecraft.  He was was an [[Official Editor]] of the comic book [[APA]] [[CAPA-alpha]].  The character "Dan Forrester" in [[Niven]] and [[Pournelle]]'s ''Lucifer's Hammer'' was modeled on him
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'''Dan Alderson''' was an [[LA]] [[fan]] and member of [[LASFS]].  He was was an [[Official Editor]] of the [[comics]] [[APA]] [[CAPA-alpha]] and a member of [[TAPS]].
  
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He worked at JPL and wrote navigation software for the Voyager spacecraft.  The character "Dan Forrester" in [[Niven]] and [[Pournelle]]'s ''Lucifer's Hammer'' was modeled on him.
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(October 31, 1941 – 1988)

Dan Alderson was an LA fan and member of LASFS. He was was an Official Editor of the comics APA CAPA-alpha and a member of TAPS.

He worked at JPL and wrote navigation software for the Voyager spacecraft. The character "Dan Forrester" in Niven and Pournelle's Lucifer's Hammer was modeled on him.



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