Joint effort from private Companies Like General Electric and the lockheed corporation. Next is a documentary that tells the story of the creation of the program, telling how the satellite was built and the challenges the designers faced. This project mark the First Successful recovery of film from space. From the recovery to the 1972, the project photographed more than 750 square miles of soviet territory. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [applause] good morning, ladies and gentlemen. For a moment, lets think back will point in time. October 24, 1957, to be precise. On that board the board of consultant activities submitted onk to president eisenhower the status of the Intelligence Communitys collection capabilities. And at the strong urging from , they called for a reassessment of the satellite reconnaissance system put into development by the air force. A complicated system based on electrical transmission of images from space. The 12 oxcartme Reconnaissance A
First successful recovery of film from space. Inm the time of its launch 1962 completion of the program in 1972, the corona project photographed more than 750 million square miles of soviet territory. [applause] good morning, ladies and gentlemen. For a moment, lets think back will point in time. To a point in time to october 24, 1957, to be precise. On that board the board of on that date the board of consultant activities submitted work to president eisenhower on the status of the Intelligence Communitys collection capabilities. And at the strong urging from dr. Lamb, they called for a reassessment of the satellite reconnaissance system put into development by the air force. This was a complicated system based on electrical transmission of images from space. At the same time the 12 oxcart Reconnaissance Aircraft was given a careful evaluation. The board held that while both were promising programs, the critical need for intelligence at that point in time warranted an interim photo re
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