Biennial International Waters Conference Budapest, Hungary from October 14-18, 2000. Departments of interest include Captain's Corner, Customer Spotlight, Agent Spotlight, User Tips, On the Home Front, and Market News.
Private firms compete to sell detailed images from space.
It's the new race in space. It was 1960, deep into that frozen era called the Cold War, a time of fear and suspicion. U.S. leaders were desperate for hard information about what was going on in Communist-bloc countries. After a dozen failures, American scientists finally succeeded in launching the first spy satellite into orbit. For the full text of this press release, click here .