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Slides for Keynote Lecture: Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium October 2007

 

ORONA made space history
from 1958 to 1972 with:
  • The first photo taken from a satellite
  • The first recovery of an object from space and
    the first in mid-air.
  • The first mapping of Earth from space.
  • The first use of multiple re-entry vehicles.
  • The first space program to fly 100 missions.
 


upport for this project from the National Science Foundation
is gratefully acknowledged.

SBR-9810440

 

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