Intelligence revolution 1960
Subtitle: retrieving the corona imagery that helped win the Cold War
By: [edited] by Ingard Clausen and Edward A. Miller
Contributors: Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance (U.S.)
Publisher: Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chantilly, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781937219024
Subjects: Military surveillance; Space surveillance; Cold War; Military Astronautics; History
Description: 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.
Notes: "April 2012."

Shipping list no.: 2012-0291-P.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 12-13) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface from CSNR -- Preface from Ingard Clausen -- Foreword -- Introduction; title: Challenges In Developing The Corona System And Utilizing The Product --; title: Reflections on Corona's tough challenges  -- Ingard Clausen; title: Thor Booster challenge  -- Ingard Clausen; title: Agena Booster platform challenges  -- Sam Araki; title: Physical vs radio frequency image recovery  -- Hilliard Paige; title: Satellite recovery vehicle challenge  -- Edward Miller; title: Mid-air recovery challenge  -- Lt Col Harold Mitchell; title: Mid-air retrieval challenge  -- Lt Robert Counts; title: Photo interpreter challenge  -- David Doyle; title: Eisenhower briefing challenge  -- Dino Brugioni; title: Corona's Cover, Discoverer --; title: Objective of Discoverer  -- Ingard Clausen; title: Creating the satellite aeromedical recovery vehicle program  -- Marvin Clarke; title: Design of Discoverer's primate life support system  -- John Hoffnagle; title: Space environmental qualification test of the recovery capsule including primate  -- George Christopher; title: Spitsbergen incident  -- Edward Miller and George Christopher; title: Five "Firsts" Of Corona --; title: Systems design of a satellite recovery vehicle  -- Robert Chamberlin; title: First man-made object to eject, stabilize, and propel itself to de-orbit a payload  -- Max Dienemann and George Christopher; title: First man-made object to reenter from orbit  -- Walter Scafer, Florian Brent, John Segletes, George Sutton, and Harold Bloom; title: First satellite recovery vehicle to be recovered from orbit  -- Florian Brent, Robert Lowe, Anthony Smith, Bernard Mirowsky, Willian Woebkenberg, and Borge Anderson; title: First photographs recovered from space from a 3-Axis stabilized platform  -- Cdr Robert Haviland; title: Recovery Operational Challenges, 1960-1973 --; title: Requalification testing the SRV at Lockheed  -- Charles Robinson, Alfred Gross, Henry Bried, and Walter Overstreet; title: 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:; title: Aftermath for general electric aerospace businesses -- -- Appendix 2:; title: Autobiographical businesses -- -- Appendix 3:; title: Biographical tributes -- -- Appendix 4:; title: People of Corona.