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I can see it's going a little bit to the right, so I can rotate the station a little to keep watching it and then film it. We were aware that there were unmanned reconnaissance satellites with truly impressive capability on the drawing board. This program will bring us new knowledge about what man is able to do in space. So we were sitting on the top of the anthill. So most of their knowledge of MOL really comes from its later years, not from the early years that it spent wandering in search of a mission. I switched to the other one to see if the story would be any different, and it wasn't. They are trying to take a picture of something on Earth, as the Earth is going around on its axis at 1, miles an hour and they themselves are traveling around the Earth at 17, miles an hour.

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They insist the space station without the pilots are more efficient. The scheduled launch date for the first MOL mission was August, And spying was just one possibility. Designers needed to test whether the Gemini's heat shield would still work after the MOL's access hatch had been cut into it.

"Nova" Astrospies (TV Episode ) - IMDb

The documentary implied that many different missions were at least evaluated for MOL, but that it was always a reconnaissance satellite with a big telescope. Astrospies 12 Feb 7. We thought that in the coming year or two, we would be able to launch the space station into orbit.

And it wasn't just going to be bigger, it was meant to be better. And when we traveled, we didn't identify ourselves as MOL or crew members or anything else. While some of them might have been a bit worried about what the Russians were doing at this point, what they really didn't know was that the competition was less with the Russians than it was within their own government.

The end of the MOL program turned out to be as low-key as its beginning. So if you picture a Hubbell space telescope, this huge, bus-sized telescope in space pointed at the stars, if you just turned it around and point it towards Earth, that would be the KH We have the Nudelmann cannon right below the station's belly.

And the MOL could use the Gemini spacecraft at its nose to collect and return the film although my suspicion is that they probably had at least one or two small reentry vehicles as well.

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We were afraid about what would happen to the station if we fired the cannon, so we never tested it with the men onboard. So as Almaz was flying over, the camera would, sort of, shift slowly to keep its sights on a particular territory.

But surviving their training program was another question. So we were sitting on the top of the anthill. Another thing that the documentary got wrong was its depiction of the orientation of the MOL spacecraft.

Astrospies, corrected

The astronauts interviewed for the documentary were apparently the primary source of information on the MOL program, and they were not completely open because they are still bound by secrecy oaths.

So that put the United States in a very bad position.

Its overall weight was about 20 tons. Find it on PBS.

So I try to rotate the station to face the object head-on astroslies then feed in the command to fire. What happens to the 14 astronauts, now, who have been training for lengthy missions?

This program is no longer available for online streaming. The previous height limit had been 6 feet, and I was almost 6'2". Lawyer, on a list of pilots chosen to be part of an Air Force Space program in the s.

Well worth seeing--particularly if you're old enough to remember the Cold War. I mean, it was something that we really thought would contribute.

The Space Review: Astrospies, corrected

Yes No Report this. Another section was mainly taken up with the sensors, largest among them the Agat camera, weighing more than two tons, with six-meter mirrors folded inside; and in the middle, the operations module, where astrospies could zoom down to almost any point on Earth; to show them where they were, a simple globe that depicted their point in orbit; a screen they could look at that showed them a kilometer panorama of the world below; in front of that screen, a viewfinder that could zoom in to meters.

But in the end, it was a hollow victory, because they ended up, basically, coming to the same conclusion. The only people you could really communicate with about what you were actually doing were people within the program office. MOL was canceled before it ever had the chance to fly, but Almaz flew several times before the Soviets ended the program.