UN General Assembly
1958

36. During my remarks on disarmament, I referred to the artificial satellites. When future ages look back on the past year, it may well be that what they will remember will be the Russian and American earth-circling satellites, and not the political quarrels and tensions that loom so large in all our minds at the present time. These earth satellites not only represent a spectacular advance in technology but give promise of a great new field of scientific data about those regions of space Immediately around our planet, this information about the extensive outer layers of our atmosphere, about its temperature, about the intensity of radiation at great heights, is all part of man's growing understanding of the universe.