Word: boushey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
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