Corona Program Exhibit Posters Collection
Object Details
- Creator
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- United States. Air Force
- Topic
- Artificial satellites
- KH-4 (Corona) Reconnaissance Satellite
- Photographic reconnaissance systems
- Cold War
- Provenance
- National Reconnaissance Office, Transferred from the Space History Department, 2013
- Creator
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- United States. Air Force
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- Corona Program Exhibit Posters Collection
- Summary
- The United States' first photographic reconnaissance satellites were designed, launched, and operated as the Corona program by the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Science and Technology, and by the US Air Force. Operating between 1959 and 1972, Corona KH (Keyhole) series satellites provided worldwide photographic coverage, surveying ballistic missile development and nuclear sites of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. This collection consists of fifteen 20 x 24 inch photographic prints used in a National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) conference or press event in 1995, the year that the Corona program was declassified, 35 years after the first successful mission.
- Biographical / Historical
- The United States' first photographic reconnaissance satellites were designed, launched, and operated as the Corona program by the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Science and Technology, and by the US Air Force. Operating between 1959 and 1972, Corona KH (Keyhole) series satellites provided worldwide photographic coverage, surveying ballistic missile development and nuclear sites of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. Images were shot on film canisters which were ejected from the satellite, and were then recovered by specially modified aircraft during parachute descent. The Corona program was declassified by executive order in 1995, making over 800,000 photographs available to the public.
- Extent
- 0.13 Cubic feet (2 folders, 15 photographs, 20 x 24 inches)
- Date
- bulk 1995
- bulk 1961-1970
- Archival Repository
- National Air and Space Museum Archives
- Identifier
- NASM.2013.0029
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Aerial photographs
- Photographs
- Citation
- Corona Program Exhibit Posters Collection, Acc. NASM.2013.0029, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
- Arrangement
- Materials are presented in original order received.
- Processing Information
- Arranged, described, and encoded by Allan Janus, 2013; updated and revised by Melissa A. N. Keiser, 2022.
- Rights
- Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests
- Genre/Form
- Aerial Photographs
- Photographs
- Scope and Contents
- This collection consists of fifteen 20 x 24 inch color photographic prints (predominantly reproducing black and white aerial photography) which were used in a National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) conference or press event in 1995, the year that the Corona program was declassified, 35 years after the first successful mission.
- Restrictions
- No restrictions on access.
- Record ID
- ebl-1529534405761-1529534405764-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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