Manned Orbiting Laboratory
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The Manned Orbiting Laboratory was part of the United States Air Force human spaceflight program in the 1960s. The project was developed from early USAF concepts of crewed space stations as reconnaiss
General Bernard Adolph Schriever, the director of the MOL program from 1962 to 1966
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Major General Joseph S. Bleymaier, head of the MOL System Program Office (SPO)
Foot restraints were used to prevent the astronaut from floating away from the workstations. This technique was later adopted for the International Space Station (ISS).
KH-9 Hexagon
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KH-9, commonly known as Big Bird or KeyHole-9, was a series of photographic reconnaissance satellites launched by the United States between 1971 and 1986. Of twenty launch attempts by the National Rec
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…and crewed missions, the report stated. Debate also persisted about the value of the very high resolution (VHR) imaging being developed for MOL and KH-9 Hexagon, or whether the resolution provided by Gambit 3 was sufficient. After the Liberty incident in June 1967 and the Pueblo incident in January 1968, there…
A KH-9 HEXAGON main features
A KH-9 image of the Soviet civil Moscow Domodedovo Airport misidentified in the original document as Kubinka airfield
Stereo pair of KH-9 imagery (Los Angeles-1968/06)
Basic specifications and diagram of the KH-9.