Introduction To Outer Space - 1958 Options

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INTRODUCTION TO OUTER SPACE (1958)

Shortly after the 1957 launch of the Soviet Sputnik satellite, the
President's Science Advisory Committee prepared a brief "Introduction
to Outer Space" to set forth the possibilities and the objectives of a
U.S. space program.

"I have found this statement so informative and so interesting that I
wish to share it with all the people of America and indeed with all
the people of the earth," wrote President Eisenhower in an
introduction.

The pamphlet was originally for sale to the public for fifteen cents.
But the Federation of American Scientists is making it available for
free.

See "Introduction to Outer Space," The White House, March 26, 1958
(thanks to Allen Thomson for a scanned copy of the pamphlet):

http://www.fas.org/spp/guide/usa/intro1958.html

The Star Trek injunction to "boldly go where no man has gone before"
must have derived from similar language in this very document, Dwayne
A. Day neatly conjectured.

See his "Boldly going: Star Trek and spaceflight," The Space Review,
November 28, 2005:

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/506/1