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 US satellite program.
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..."
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preliminary_Design_of_an_Experimental_World-Circling_Spaceship December 16, 2003
