>>11124825The author was Donald N. Michael.
Here's an excerpt from an opinion piece he wrote about the same time:
JOURNAL ARTICLE
The Beginning of the Space Age and American Public Opinion
Donald N. Michael
The Public Opinion Quarterly
Vol. 24, No. 4 (Winter, 1960)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2746526?seq=1>I sometimes wonder what the writer of the original brookings study was thinking at the time It might lend some insight into what he was thinking.
If you'd like, I could try to find a complete copy, or, some other earlier work.