Quote from: Blackstar on 11/09/2015 11:53 amQuote from: Hoonte on 11/09/2015 10:11 amWhere there any experiments done on one of the Gemini flights concerning MOL?At least some of the experiments that were originally planned for MOL, such as the maneuvering unit, were transferred over to Gemini. I don't know when or why all that happened, but it may be in the documents that were released. Aah. I had always wondered why the AMU flew on 9a. Was this already a long known fact that it was linked to MOL or did this just came public on the recent release of MOL documents?
Quote from: Hoonte on 11/09/2015 10:11 amWhere there any experiments done on one of the Gemini flights concerning MOL?At least some of the experiments that were originally planned for MOL, such as the maneuvering unit, were transferred over to Gemini. I don't know when or why all that happened, but it may be in the documents that were released.
Where there any experiments done on one of the Gemini flights concerning MOL?
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Does anybody remember seeing any mention of the "D ONKEY" payload in the MOL documents? D ONKEY was a comint payload that was started as part of MOL, but then removed from MOL and flown on an Agena signals intelligence satellite instead. I have some material on it, but I'm trying to remember if any of the 800-plus MOL documents refer to D ONKEY. Any tips?
It would be interesting to known what legal punishment would have happened to someone revealing the NRO existence and details to the outside world (I don't mean a Soviet spy, rather a poor shmo telling too much to his family or friends by mistake) National trahison ? (by the way, was disclosure of the NRO allowed by the end of Cold War ? I mean, had Cold War not stopped, would the NRO very existence remained classified ?)
Ok, so that's the main difference between KH-8 and KH-10. Same resolution (4 inch) but KH-10 has the astronauts with some real role to play in the system, albeit limited and at a very high cost.