Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Chantilly, Va. : Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Clausen, Ingard.
• Miller, Edward Alan, 1922-
• Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance (U.S.)

Description

xiv, 240 p. : ill., ports.; 26 cm.

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.

Subjects

• Space surveillance > United States > History
• Military surveillance > United States > History
• Cold War > History
• Astronautics, Military > United States > History

Note

• "April 2012."
• Shipping list no.: 2012-0291-P.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 12-13) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFF 13-235

ISBN

• 9781937219024 (pbk.)
• 193721902X (pbk.)

OCLC

794930433

Title

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

Imprint

Chantilly, Va. : Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance, 2012.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 12-13) and index.

Added Author

Clausen, Ingard.

Miller, Edward Alan, 1922-

Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance (U.S.)

Gpo Item No.

0306

Sudoc No.

D 1.2:IN 8/16

Research Call Number

JFF 13-235