40 Years of Radiation Single Event Effects at the European Space Agency, ESTEC

This summary paper is based on an invited talk given at the Single Event Effects (SEE) Symposium at La Jolla, California, USA on 12 April 2011, titled '40 Years of SEE at ESA/ESTEC' (European Space Agency/European Space Research and Technology Centre). As an historical summary paper covering radiation activities within the ESTEC Components Laboratory, this paper primarily focus on my own SEE experiences and involvement from 1970 to 2010.