Introduction to Outer Space is a March 26, 1958 pamphlet aboutspace exploration edited by theWhite House. At first it was a report produced by thePresident's Science Advisory Committee, presided byJames R. Killian, in the wake of the Soviet Union's late 1957Sputnik 1 andSputnik 2 launches. To garner further support for thenational space program, United States PresidentDwight D. Eisenhower, who found the report informative and interesting, decided to make it available to everybody for 15 cents.Introduction to Outer Space described the future ofspace exploration in simple terms.
It has been suggested[1] thatIntroduction to Outer Space was the origin of theStar Trek universe phrase "Where no man has gone before", as the booklet reads on its first page:
The first of these factors is the compelling urge of man to explore and to discover, the thrust of curiosity that leads men to try to go where no one has gone before. Most of the surface of the earth has been explored and men now turn on the exploration of outer space as their next objective.[2]
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