The Hero with a Thousand Faces -
Why do we keep telling the same stories over and over?
quote [ Fifty years ago, 5 unmanned lunar orbiters circled the moon, taking extremely high resolution photos of the surface. They were trying to find the perfect landing site for the Apollo missions. They would be good enough to blow up to 40 x 54ft images that the astronauts would walk across looking for the great spot. After their use, the images were locked away from the public, as at the time they would have revealed the superior technology of the USA’s spy satellite cameras ]
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midden said @ 10:53pm GMT on 15th June
We used to have to catch the film in mid air, dropped from orbiting spy satellites with nine foot long telephoto lenses.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/jpzpkg/the-first-spy-satellites-had-to-drop-gigantic-buckets-of-film-back-to-earth
midden said @ 10:53pm GMT on 15th June
We used to have to catch the film in mid air, dropped from orbiting spy satellites with nine foot long telephoto lenses.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/jpzpkg/the-first-spy-satellites-had-to-drop-gigantic-buckets-of-film-back-to-earth
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midden said @ 10:53pm GMT on 15th June [Score:1 Informative]
We used to have to catch the film in mid air, dropped from orbiting spy satellites with nine foot long telephoto lenses.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/jpzpkg/the-first-spy-satellites-had-to-drop-gigantic-buckets-of-film-back-to-earth