You Won't Believe How the First Spy Satellites Worked

When the first Spy satellites were put into orbit they were a long way from the type of reconnaissance satellites and even Google Earth that we are used to now and you won't believe what they did to get the images back to Earth. This is the story of project Corona and how it changed the way we look at the world.

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