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A Breathless Survey of the Overhead Reconnaissance Harvest of CORONA
The U.S.’s development of a viable satellite reconnaissance program proved a major challenge through much of the 1950s, with the first successful flight coming in 1960. Under development in the latter 1950s, Project CORONA eventually became a successful American reconnaissance satellite … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, CIA, cold war, CORONA, Department of Defense, Discoverer 13, Glenn L. Martin Co., History, Key Hole Program, KH-1, KH-4B, Lockheed, Lyndon B. Johnson, Mys Schmitda, Neil McElroy, Plesetsk, public policy, RCA, satellite reconnaissance, Soviet Union, spy satellites, Thor-Agena
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