LOTS of videos and documents now posted at the NRO web-site!!!http://www.nro.mil/foia/declass/GAMBHEX.html
Giuseppe did a great job, did anyone predict the orientation of the mapping camera recovery vehicle before the release? It took me by surprise.
did anyone predict the orientation of the mapping camera recovery vehicle before the release? It took me by surprise.
Personally I am suspecting they took the whole thing off line for some reason. Just glad I managed to read the Perry history's while they where up.btw. There is a thread with just the Perry histories in it, but none of the other stuff they had up. http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=20232.0
WRT to being Slashdotted, apparently, they didn't think declassified top secret documents about some of the most important vehicles of the Cold War would be interest to the general public...
Quote from: simonbp on 09/22/2011 07:09 pmWRT to being Slashdotted, apparently, they didn't think declassified top secret documents about some of the most important vehicles of the Cold War would be interest to the general public... A US government agency vital to the security of the nation with an annual budget of $15 billion, and which cannot keep a web server running, while several hundred folks (at most) try to download some PDF documents? If this is the case, then I'm really afraid...
One interesting aspect of this declassification is that not only are we seeing the vehicles, but we are also seeing Lockheed's test facilities. Here's a question: because KH-11 and KH-9 (and KH-8) operations were all underway more or less simultaneously from mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, presumably they had separate facilities for each.