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Physical description:
xiv, 240 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
United States
Date:
2012
Notes:
"April 2012."
Shipping list no.: 2012-0291-P.
Contents:
Preface from CSNR -- Preface from Ingard Clausen -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Challenges in developing the Corona System and utilizing the product. Reflections on Corona's tough challenges / Ingard Clausen ; Thor Booster challenge / Ingard Clausen ; Agena Booster platform challenges / Sam Araki ; Physical vs. radio frequency image recovery / Hilliard Paige ; Satellite recovery vehicle challenge / Edward Miller ; Mid-air recovery challenge / Lt Col Harold Mitchell ; Mid-air retrieval challenge / Lt Robert Counts ; Photo interpreter challenge / David Doyle ; Eisenhower briefing challenge / Dino Brugioni -- Corona's Cover, Discoverer. Objective of Discoverer / Ingard Clausen ; Creating the satellite aeromedical recovery vehicle program / Marvin Clarke ; Design of Discoverer's primate life support system / John Hoffnagle ; Space environmental qualification test of the recovery capsule including primate / George Christopher ; Spitsbergen incident / Edward Miller and George Christopher -- Five "Firsts" of Corona. Systems design of a satellite recovery vehicle / Robert Chamberlin ; First man-made object to eject, stabilize, and propel itself to de-orbit a payload / Max Dienemann and George Christopher ; First man-made object to reenter from orbit / Walter Scafer, Florian Brent, John Segletes, George Sutton, and Harold Bloom ; First satellite recovery vehicle to be recovered from orbit / Florian Brent, Robert Lowe, Anthony Smith, Bernard Mirowsky, Willian Woebkenberg, and Borge Anderson ; First photographs recovered from space from a 3-Axis stabilized platform / Cdr Robert Haviland -- Recovery Operational Challenges, 1960-1973. Requalification testing the SRV at Lockheed / Charles Robinson, Alfred Gross, Henry Bried, and Walter Overstreet ; 104 successful missions for the SRV / Walter Smith, Daniel Rossman, Alfred Little II, Myron Peterson, Robert Gross, William Wier, Edmond Bryce Sr, Clifford Barr, Richard Lasher, Edwin Hearn and Bruce Waechter -- Afterword -- Appendix 1: Aftermath for General Electric aerospace businesses -- Appendix 2: Autobiographical businesses -- Appendix 3: Biographical tributes -- Appendix 4: People of Corona
Summary:
Overview: Provides a history of the Corona Satellite photo reconnaissance Program. It was a joint Central Intelligence Agency and United States Air Force program in the 1960s. It was then highly classified.
