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The Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship was a 1946 proposal by
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
The RAND Corporation (from the phrase "research and development") is an American nonprofit global policy think tank created in 1948 by Douglas Aircraft Company to offer research and analysis to the United States Armed Forces. It is financed ...
for a United States satellite
A satellite or artificial satellite is an object intentionally placed into orbit in outer space. Except for passive satellites, most satellites have an electricity generation system for equipment on board, such as solar panels or radioisotope ...
program. Robert M. Salter, Jack Lipp and one other person at RAND served as the editors of the report.
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
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion. Both bomb ...
..."''
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Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship
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