アメリカ国家偵察局、60年代に計画していた軍用ステーション「MOL」の機密解除 [383744743]

米国家偵察局、軍用宇宙ステーション「MOL」の機密を解除
October 28 - 2015 - その他

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　米国家偵察局（NRO）は2015年10月22日、1960年代に計画されていた軍用の有人宇宙ステーション「MOL」（モウル）計画の機密を解除し、当時の文章、写真などを公開した。

以下ソース
http://www.sorae.jp/030699/5752.html
http://nro.gov/foia/declass/MOL.html

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Index, Declassified Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) Records

The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) was a 1960s Air Force program with the ostensible mission to place military personnel in orbit
to conduct scientific experiments to determine the “military usefulness” of placing man into space and the techniques and procedures for doing so if the need ever arose.
The actual, classified, mission of the MOL program was to place a manned surveillance satellite into orbit.
At the time, several military and contractor studies estimated that manned surveillance satellites could acquire photographic coverage of the Soviet Union with resolution better than the best system at the time (the first generation Gambit satellite).
Additionally, the Air Force billed the MOL as a reconnaissance system that could more efficiently and quickly adjust coverage for crises
and targets of opportunity than unmanned systems.
The Air Force controlled development of the satellite, which was consistent with MOL’s unclassified mission,
while the NRO ran development of the covert reconnaissance mission of the program, including the camera system and other subsystems.