Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship
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The Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship was a 1946 proposal, by Project RAND, for a United States satellite program. Dr. Robert M. Salter, Jack Lipp, and one other person at RAND served as the editors of the report.[1]
The Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship states, "A satellite vehicle with appropriate instrumentation can be expected to be one of the most potent scientific tools of the Twentieth Century. The achievement of a satellite craft would produce repercussions comparable to the explosion of the atomic bomb..."
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- Book for sale or free download at RAND website
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