While it wasn’t widely know at the time, we were already doing mid-air retrievals of the Corona spy satellites’ film bucket reentry capsules. This would just be scaling the concept up… way up.
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While it wasn’t widely know at the time, we were already doing mid-air retrievals of the Corona spy satellites’ film bucket reentry capsules. This would just be scaling the concept up… way up.