Robert M. Salter Jr. was an American engineer who worked for the
RAND Corporation. He was one of the first to study the possibility of using a satellite to collect information.
During the 1970s, he advocated the
vactrain high-speed transit concept. He also published papers on energy storage for the space program.
Salter died in May 2011.
See also
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Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship
References
American engineers
2011 deaths
Presidents of the American Society of Agronomy
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