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The Hour of the Wolf
by Dwayne A. Day
Monday, July 16, 2012
In the late 1960s two massive, expensive, highly classified pieces of machinery clashed in secrecy.
It was a classic space battle between humans and machines, and this time the machines won.
The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) program was started in late 1963 after the cancellation of the X-20 Dyna-Soar winged spaceplane.
The Air Force has declassified many documents on the first year of the MOL program, but they may be misleading.
From the available documentation, MOL appears to have started as a general purpose experimental military space station to determine if astronauts could perform militarily useful missions in low Earth orbit.
But by 1965 MOL had evolved into an operational photographic reconnaissance satellite whereby astronauts would operate a powerful telescope, code-named DORIAN ....
More: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2121/1
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