The Space Station that Never was, or was it?

[spacemaverick]

This is a link to Space.com where the National Reconnaissance Office released the information on a planned military space station they said never came to fruition.  Or did it come in another form?

http://www.space.com/34661-manned-orbiting-laboratory-declassified-photos.html?trac=true&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign=Countdown+-+Spaceflight+-+Military+Space+Station+-+Lookalike+1%25+-+USA+-+Desktop&utm_content=military+space+station



By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor | March 4, 2017 12:16pm ET

A series of slides

http://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/history/csnr/programs/docs/MOL_Compendium_August_2015.pdf

[zorgon]

I swear this really IS Timeline B

PBS NOVA did this years ago  called ASTROSPIES...  all about MOL and the first secret astronauts with NAMES and the Russian ALMAZ (Diamond) spy platform that was still up as long as 1972...

You can read all about it somewhere   Oh wait... how about HERE?

Naval Space Command Info Thread
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=13.0





In fact it was the opening work that led to the entire secret space command stuff

[Canine]

I swear this really IS Timeline B

Before you check - do you remember the Corona Program as being a series of successes or a series of failures?

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

I swear this really IS Timeline B

PBS NOVA did this years ago  called ASTROSPIES...  all about MOL and the first secret astronauts with NAMES and the Russian ALMAZ (Diamond) spy platform that was still up as long as 1972...

You can read all about it somewhere   Oh wait... how about HERE?

Naval Space Command Info Thread
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=13.0





In fact it was the opening work that led to the entire secret space command stuff

I remember watching that show when it first aired!...And the Russians actually had a 'cannon' on board their ship!....

[spacemaverick]

Sorry, maybe I should have used the search function.  Somehow I missed the other timeline.  I have been all over the Living Moonb site but must have forgotten.

[zorgon]

Before you check - do you remember the Corona Program as being a series of successes or a series of failures?

Never heard of the Corona program...  what about the Clark space station?

[zorgon]

Sorry, maybe I should have used the search function.  Somehow I missed the other timeline.  I have been all over the Living Moonb site but must have forgotten.

LOL No worries happens a lot around here... too many pages of info to remember

[The Seeker]

Never heard of the Corona program...  what about the Clark space station?

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=10770.msg141430#msg141430

The above link is from Karl12's realm and offers a little about Corona, the CIA's photo spy satellites from the early 1960's;

as for your question, canine, Corona had it's good points and it's bad, did manage to take over 800,000 photos of opposition territory, but having to skyhook the parachuting film canister each time one made re-entry did have its moments, but did remove the issues caused by the U2 overflights...

it served it's purpose...

[Shasta56]

I wonder if my dad was in on that project.  The location and timeline fit.  Probably one of those things that I will never know for sure.

[fansongecho]

@ Shasta     

@ Seeker, top comment, and it reminded me of one of my fav cold war movies -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Station_Zebra 

From the above page -

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Plot origin and cultural impact[edit]

The plot has parallels to events reported in news stories from April 1959, concerning a missing experimental Corona satellite capsule (Discoverer II) that inadvertently landed near Spitsbergen, situated in the Arctic Ocean, on April 13, which was believed to have been recovered by Soviet agents.

In 2006, the United States National Reconnaissance Office declassified information stating that "an individual formerly possessing Corona access was the technical adviser to the movie" and admitted "the resemblance of the loss of the Discoverer II capsule, and its probable recovery by the Soviets" on Spitsbergen Island, to the book by Alistair MacLean.[9]

The story has parallels with the Central Intelligence Agency's Project COLDFEET, which took place in May–June 1962. In this operation, two American officers parachuted from a CIA-operated B‑17 Flying Fortress to an abandoned Soviet ice station. After searching the station, they were picked up three days later by the B-17 using the Fulton surface-to-air recovery system.

The attempted sinking of the US submarine is almost certainly based[10] on the loss of the Royal Navy submarine HMS Thetis in Liverpool Bay in 1939. As in the film the drip cock was blocked on the newly built Thetis (by dockyard-applied fresh paint) which led to the rear cap being opened while the bow cap was already open to the ocean. Water entered at the rate of one ton per second and Thetis sank with the loss of 98 lives. In the movie the drip cock has been blocked with epoxy adhesive.

Reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, who had experience both as a movie producer and a defense contractor for the United States, is said to have watched a private print of Ice Station Zebra 150 times on a continuous loop in his private hotel suite during the years prior to his death.[11] In his 2013 autobiography My Way, singer Paul Anka writes that Hughes kept a permanent penthouse at the Desert Inn hotel in Las Vegas and owned a local TV station. "We knew when Hughes was in town," Anka wrote. "You'd get back to your room, turn on the TV at 2 a.m. and the movie 'Ice Station Zebra' would be playing. At 5 a.m., it would start all over again. It was on almost every night. Hughes loved that movie."

The sets and miniature footage from the film were re-used for the 1971 ABC made-for-television movie Assault on the Wayne, starring Leonard Nimoy, Joseph Cotten, Keenan Wynn, William Windom, Sam Elliott, and Dewey Martin, which also featured Zebra cast members Lloyd Haynes and Ron Masak.[12]

The name Zebra comes from the representation of the letter Z in the Joint Army/Navy phonetic alphabet. In the modern NATO phonetic alphabet later adopted by aviation and navigation, Zulu is being used instead of Zebra. In actuality, there was an Ice Station Alpha (phonetic for the letter "A") established by the US Air Force in 1957 as part of the International Geophysical Year (IGY.).[13]

Footage from Ice Station Zebra (and the model of the Tigerfish) was also re-used in The Six Million Dollar Man two-part episode "Wine, Women, and War," the 1978 disaster film Gray Lady Down, the 1983 James Bond film Never Say Never Again, and the 1982 Cold War thriller Firefox.

Sportscaster Chris Berman, known for his whimsical nicknames for athletes, referred to major league pitcher Bob Sebra as "Ice Station Sebra".

In Breaking Bad, Saul Goodman has a holding company called Ice Station Zebra Associates, which he uses to dodge taxes. It is revealed in the spinoff series Better Call Saul that his love interest earlier in life listed this as her favorite movie.

In 2018 Jack White released the single Ice Station Zebra.
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