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Description: Model of the MOUSE, a Minimal Orbital Unmanned Satellite, Earth, designed in 1951 by physicist w:Fred Singer. [1] The model was built by the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in 1954, then donated by Singer to the Smithsonian in 1962. [2]archive copy at the Wayback Machine