Live, from orbit: the Manned Orbiting Laboratory's top-secret film-readout system

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The Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) program in the 1960s would take high-resolution images, but how could those images be quickly returned to Earth? Dwayne Day examines proposals to include film-readout systems on MOL.