Intelligence revolution 1960 : retrieving the corona imagery that helped win the Cold War / edited by Ingard Clausen and Edward A. Miller

Object Details

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.
Data Source
Smithsonian Libraries
Date
2012
editor
Clausen, Ingard
Miller, Edward A.
Author
Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance (U.S.)
Type
Books
History
Physical description
xiv, 240 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
Place
United States
Topic
Space surveillance--History
Astronautics, Military--History
Military surveillance--History
Cold war--History
Record ID
siris_sil_1058424
Usage
CC0