National Reconnaissance Office

KH-10 DORIAN / Manned Orbiting Laboratory

Declassified Manned Orbiting Laboratory/DORIAN Illustrations The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) was a 1960s Air Force program with the ostensible mission…

November 13, 2015

9/11/01 Simulation of Plane Crashing into NRO Buildings

Background The exercise broke down into multiple phases, which began on September 5, 2001. Each phase was to determine the…

March 3, 2015

The NRO – Its Mission, History, and People

To download the .zip file, click on the image of the CD-ROM, or CLICK HERE.   As a result of a…

March 3, 2015

History of Satellite Reconnaissance

In the 1970s, Robert Perry of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) wrote five volumes on the history of satellite reconnaissance.…

March 3, 2015

Miscellaneous Records on Spy Satellites

The following documents are not categorized in their proper sub-category. Until then, they will remain indexed here. The Central Intelligence…

March 3, 2015