The Astonishing Spying Capabilities of This U.S. Satellite

The ‘Manned Orbiting Laboratory’ or ‘MOL’ was built to capture high-resolution images of Soviet targets on the ground. It was so advanced, it could pick up objects on earth as small as a baseball.

From the Series: Atomic Age Declassified: Spies in Space

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