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Comment by TedDoesntTalk

> There was no good way for an astronaut to record the precise time and pointing angle of a camera when he took a picture, and so the interpreters often had a very difficult time determining what they were looking at. This had been one of the factors that contributed to the demise of the US Air Force’s Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) program.

This it not accurate. MOL was canceled in favor of adding black/dark projects to the NASA space shuttle “white” project. In fact a lot of tech developed for MOL ended up on the shuttle.

Source: my father worked on MOL

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