Abstract June 1957. Flying more than 70,000 feet above Soviet Kazakhstan, an altitude which exceeded the reach of any Soviet interceptor aircraft, an alert pilot of an American Lockheed U-2 spy plane spotted something interesting in the distance and departed from his prescribed course to get some photographs. What he found would astound his intelligence chiefs in Washington. He had inadvertently stumbled upon the Baikonur launch facility. This was the “crown jewel of Soviet space technology, whose existence had not even been suspected”, according to the memoirs of Richard M. Bissell Jr., director of the American U-2 spy plane programme and of photo-reconnaissance at the Central Intelligence Agency [1].
The most famous dog in history
2007-01-01
25 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
York Time , Telemetry System , Central Intelligence Agency , Launch Site , Space Medicine Physics , Astronomy, Observations and Techniques , Popular Science, general , History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics , Automotive Engineering , History, general , Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
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