Sep 1 1946
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Fred Whipple's first paper on meteoroid impacts on spacecraft, "Possible hazards to satellite vehicles from meteorites" is published by the RAND Corporation as a supplement to their May 2 1946 seminal study "Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship". Whipple would develop this into what became known as the Whipple Shield.
