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history of Discoverer program

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  In Discoverer
  …actually a cover story for Corona, a joint Air Force–Central Intelligence Agency project to develop a military reconnaissance satellite. Discoverer 1 (launched Feb. 28, 1959) was equipped with a camera and an ejectable capsule capable of carrying exposed film back to Earth. Like later reconnaissance satellites, it was placed in…
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space exploration

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  In space exploration: The first satellites
  …which came to be called Corona, would take pictures over the Soviet Union and return them to Earth by dropping the exposed film in a capsule that would be snatched out of the air as it parachuted back from space. After 12 failures, the first successful Corona mission took place…
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