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...secrecy seemed academic, since in its more talkative pre-U-2 days the Air Force had pretty well let the Samos cat out of the bag. In 1958, Air Force General Homer Boushey explained the principles of Samos to a House committee. When an earthbound telescope looks up from the ground, its vision is dimmed and distorted by nearby irregularities in the atmosphere. But were that same telescope to look down from space, the same irregularities would have much less effect. On a clear day, a 40-in. telescope 500 miles up would theoretically see and photograph objects...
...military terms, control of the moon represents the classical concept of the "high ground." Thus the lunar military potential takes on a new urgency in terms of observation and missilery. Says Air Force Brigadier General Homer Boushey: with moderate-sized telescopes, lunar observers could daily "monitor the positions of all ships at sea, all major surface construction, all above-ground missile sites" on the earth. The growing sciences of optics and radar observation already promise the tools to assure continuous observation of the turning earth and the pinpointing of objects as small as 100 ft. across...
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