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- catalog abstract ""In the early 1960s, when the United States and the Soviet Union faced each other in a nuclear standoff, a small band of engineers, designers, and intelligence officers secretly set out to do the impossible. Armed with little more than a few ideas and drawings of the payload, they created America's first reconnaissance satellite program - the Corona project - which for decades remained one of the nation's most closely guarded secrets. This is the story of their extraordinary efforts, from the first desperate requests for intelligence on the USSR, throuqh a series of heartbreaking failures, to Corona's ultimate success." "This book focuses not only on the Corona project's great technical achievements but also on the remarkable human side of the story - on the engineers who built the satellites but could not divulge what they did even to their own families, and on the recovery pilots who competed to see who would be the first ace. Their stories appear for the first time in this book along with previously classified details of their recovery unit and a list of the ace pilots."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10570361.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description ""In the early 1960s, when the United States and the Soviet Union faced each other in a nuclear standoff, a small band of engineers, designers, and intelligence officers secretly set out to do the impossible. Armed with little more than a few ideas and drawings of the payload, they created America's first reconnaissance satellite program - the Corona project - which for decades remained one of the nation's most closely guarded secrets. This is the story of their extraordinary efforts, from the first desperate requests for intelligence on the USSR, throuqh a series of heartbreaking failures, to Corona's ultimate success." "This book focuses not only on the Corona project's great technical achievements but also on the remarkable human side of the story - on the engineers who built the satellites but could not divulge what they did even to their own families, and on the recovery pilots who competed to see who would be the first ace. Their stories appear for the first time in this book along with previously classified details of their recovery unit and a list of the ace pilots."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Toward a new frontier -- First spark -- The hard road to space -- First voyages into the unknown -- The Kennedy administration and Corona -- Corona in the shadows -- The definite Corona -- Magic in their eyes -- Top secret ruff -- Corona's twilight -- The view from 2001.".
- catalog extent "xii, 351 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Corona project.".
- catalog identifier "1557506884 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Corona project.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press,".
- catalog relation "Corona project.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "327.1273 21".
- catalog subject "Project Corona (U.S.) History.".
- catalog subject "Project Corona (United States) History.".
- catalog subject "Space surveillance United States History.".
- catalog subject "UG1523 .P44 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "Toward a new frontier -- First spark -- The hard road to space -- First voyages into the unknown -- The Kennedy administration and Corona -- Corona in the shadows -- The definite Corona -- Magic in their eyes -- Top secret ruff -- Corona's twilight -- The view from 2001.".
- catalog title "The Corona project : America's first spy satellites / Curtis Peebles.".
- catalog type "text".