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Meanwhile Ehricke was ready to extract The Wildest Daughter’s Promise. He had followed the 1957 Sputnik launch almost immediately with a proposal to the Air Force entitled “A Satellite and Space Development Plan.” More far-out science fiction. It wasn’t accepted at first. But the “space cadet,” as some enjoyed calling him, had designed what would soon be eagerly embraced and urgently prioritized in response to the dawning space age. It was the world’s first real space vehicle. |