"If it weren't for satellites, we would have very little understanding of the biological activity of the entire Earth,…"

"For years after World War II, both the United States and the Soviet Union had been trying to perfect a long-range mis…"

"The other invention that was changing television was live satellite transmission. The first transmission from a satel…"

"Fred Friendly, the head of CBS news, understood that satellites, with instant transmissions, would eventually become …"

"Some historians, at least, believe that spy satellites helped keep the Cold War cool. By providing planners with some…"

"[The Hubble Space Telescope is] probably the most sophisticated scientific satellite ever built."

"In 1971 the CIA and Air Force began designing the Keyhole or KH series of spy satellites. On December 19, 1976, the f…"

""Already in 1945, we were talking about satellites," Yuri Mozhorin, a veteran of the Soviet rocket development progra…"

"…Korolev needed to go full speed ahead with the satellites development, so he stressed the potential military importa…"

"Carbonization drives off moisture... with... low molecular weight organic compounds... from extractives and... pyroly…"