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Project Quill: Radar in Space Recently declassified NRO documents shed more light on early experiments in radar imaging reconnaissance satellites

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The period from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s was a time of extraordinary developments in remote sensing for overhead photographic intelligence. With the creation of the U-2 and A-12 spyplanes, …

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Neil Armstrong, Ejecting, and the Aviation Midshipmen

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“It’s nice to be in a place like this where I’m not the oldest man in the room,” said Neil Armstrong to the 2009 reunion of the Flying Midshipmen Association.…

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Neil Armstrong: Remembering a Reluctant Hero

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As the world marks the passing of Neil A. Armstrong, there are a good many words being used to describe his amazing life and achievements. A quiet and gentle man, …

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Sally Ride, America's first woman astronaut, communicates with ground controllers from the flight deck of the space shuttle Challenger during the six-day mission, June 18-24, 1983. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration photo

Sally Ride, NASA’s First Female in Space, Dies

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Astronaut Sally K. Ride, Ph.D., the first American woman to fly into space, died on July 23, 2012, at her home in La Jolla, Calif. She had battled pancreatic cancer for …

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X-37B’s First Two Missions Earn Success and Speculation

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On Saturday, June 16, 2012, at 5:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time (12:48 Zulu), the X-37B program’s unmanned Orbital Test Vehicle Two (OTV-2) set down onto the three-mile runway at Vandenberg …

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Shuttle Enterprise’s New Home Will Be Aboard USS Intrepid

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The space shuttle Enterprise, riding atop its 747 mother ship, made a triumphant flyover of New York City April 27. “The sight was enough to cause even the most jaded …

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Space Shuttle Discovery Flies to New Home Arrival of the shuttle in Washington is a 'bittersweet experience' for some

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The shuttle Discovery made a dramatic final appearance in the sky April 17, bringing cheers from onlookers as it passed over Washington, D.C. on the back of its jumbo-jet carrier …

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What Future for American Manned Spaceflight? America in space: 21st century leader – or guest (Part 1)

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When the Space Shuttle Atlantis rolled to a stop at the Kennedy Space Center on July 11, 2011, the United States’ ability to send its own astronauts into space stopped …

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Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) Astronauts Would Have Conducted Surveillance and Scientific Research Aboard MOL, Air Force astronauts would have conducted surveillance, and scientific research, in orbit

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The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) was the U.S. Air Force’s most ambitious spaceflight program in the mid- to late- 1960s. It came along when the United States was just finding …

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Neil Armstrong Calls the Nation’s Space Program ‘Embarrassing’

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Neil Armstrong was a “pretty quiet guy,” even when flying jets in the Korean War, says a shipmate. Since he became first to walk on the moon on July 20, …

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