Space Imaging A view of the Hollywood Hills from 400 miles up in space.
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. Slowly, but perceptibly, the world began to change.