Spy Satellite Pioneer Castine Man Helped Launch Space Intelligence Effort

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It was a time of world tension.

Two world powers faced off against each other in a Cold War that used fear as a weapon and spurred both a nuclear arms race and a race for space as the United States and the Soviet Union vied for scientific and technical superiority not only in weapons and machines but in intelligence as well.

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Spy Satellite Pioneer Castine Man Helped Launch Space Intelligence Effort

At a quiet center of the quest for information was Edward Miller of Castine, who, as a research engineer with General Electric Corp. working on the top-secret Corona Project, was a key figure in the development of America's first generation of spy satellites.

Outstripping the capabilities of the nation's high...

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