Manned Orbiting Laboratory Declassified: Inside a US Military Space Station

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Many of the photos seen in this slideshow were part of a massive image and document release by the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office on Oct. 22, 2015. That data release included The DORIAN Files Revealed (PDF), a 232-page compendium of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program.

For more in-depth reading of all the declassified MOL documents, visit the National Reconnaissance Office MOL page here.

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Elizabeth Howell
Elizabeth Howell
Former Staff Writer, Spaceflight (July 2022-November 2024)

Elizabeth Howell (she/her), Ph.D., was a staff writer in the spaceflight channel between 2022 and 2024 specializing in Canadian space news. She was contributing writer for Space.com for 10 years from 2012 to 2024. Elizabeth's reporting includes multiple exclusives with the White House, leading world coverage about a lost-and-found space tomato on the International Space Station, witnessing five human spaceflight launches on two continents, flying parabolic, working inside a spacesuit, and participating in a simulated Mars mission. Her latest book, "Why Am I Taller?" (ECW Press, 2022) is co-written with astronaut Dave Williams. 

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