Astronaut photography and the intelligence community: Who saw what? |
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Authors: | James David |
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Institution: | aSpace History Division, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA |
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Abstract: | Despite NASA's astronaut photography benefiting a wide range of civilian interests, it occasionally conflicted directly with the critical national security requirement to protect the National Reconnaissance Program from public disclosure or compromise. The Intelligence Community consequently imposed a number of restrictions, from reviewing the photography before public release to limiting the capabilities of NASA's image-forming sensors. At the same time, beginning in the Mercury program the Intelligence Community acquired and analyzed some of the photography as a possible source of intelligence data that otherwise was not being collected. |
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