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Strangely enough the MOL astronauts only knew of the cover story that the program would be a space laboratory for military experiments and did not learn of the reconnaissance role until after selection.
Manned Orbiting Laboratory
Mockup of MOL
Gemini B Heat Shield with Hatch
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NASA feasibility studies determined that a research space laboratory could be placed in orbit by 1967. However, to fund such a project it had to be justified by achieving a national goal, or an important science goal, or test of technology.
X-20 Dyna-Soar
MOL Configuration
Gemini B
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A scant five months after Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean in December of 1972, NASA launched Skylab to begin a new phase of American manned spaceflight – space station operations.
Outpost
A Home in Space
Apollo ‘A’
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Once its antennas were deployed, Explorer 49 was the largest human-made object to orbit the Moon as of 2022.
Copernicus (OAO3)
SAS-2
Venera 8
Display of Luna 20
Luna 21
Explorer 49
