America's First Spy Satellites

Curtis Peebles is empowering readers with the newly declassified information on how the first American satellites were set into use for intelligence gathering. Through his book, “The Corona Project: America's First Spy Satellites”, the author gives detailed information on the birth of the satellite program by watching the Corona project from its beginnings in the late 1940s to the declassification of the project and its exhibitions at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. The …

…more personal attachment to the people associated with the project. It is sometimes hard to think about the hundreds or even thousands of people that had to be cleared and entrusted with the mission to document as much of the assets located behind the iron curtain. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone seeking information on how the United States began to embark on the task of aerial reconnaissance from above the earth's atmosphere.