no international or overseas bidders accepted **Payment option only is PAYPAL, and to only a confirmed address. When the Dyna-Soar program was cancelled in December 1963, the Air Force continued its efforts to develop a capability for manned space operations. This is a 1:48 scale model of the Manned Orbital Laboratory (MOL), designed by the U.S. Air Force to be a space-based reconnaissance platform for long-duration missions. Approval was subsequently given, The USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) was intended to be a two-man military space station. After being launched into Earth orbit onboard a Gemini capsule by a Titan rocket, the crew of two astronauts would enter the attached laboratory module.

Manned Orbiting Laboratory. Index, Declassified Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) Records. AKA: AFP-632;Dorian;Dorian, AFP-632, KH-10;KH-10;Manned Orbiting Laboratory. Manned Orbiting Laboratory Astronaut Group 3.jpg 365 × 308; 16 KB Manned Orbiting Laboratory concept illustration (120210-F-XN622-009).jpg 1,784 × 1,357; 824 KB MOL 01.jpg 1,121 × 800; 132 KB Specifically, in that memorandum, the SAF requested early approval to enter into a MOL Program Contract Definition Phase. Secretary of the Air Force proposed a redefined Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) Program aimed principally at achieving very high resolution photography of significant targets. MOL (Manned Orbiting Laboratory) was the US Air Force's manned space project after Dynasoar was cancelled, until it in turn was cancelled in 1969. Status: Operational 1966. MANNED ORBITING LABORATORY (MOL) 1963-1969 / NOVEMBER 3, 1966 . The MOL-Men Come Into the Light A reunion—and newly declassified pictures—provide more detail on the military’s secretive space station project of the 1960s. LARGE COMMEMORATIVE TIM GAGNON PATCH PURCHASED DIRECT FROM TIM 7" X 8" INCHES NEAR MINT CONDITION . BIDDERS WITHIN THE UNITED STATES ONLY! In the spring of 1964, the USAF began work on the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL), an evolution of the, First Launch: 1966-11-03. And as the author of the memo noted, MOL started to come under increasing scrutiny by groups outside of the program. The U.S. military's Manned Orbiting Laboratory was planned in the 1960s but never realized. The Manned Orbiting Laboratory would have used the Gemini spacecraft as a means of … Details surrounding the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) and its 71-inch optical camera have been declassified since 2015, though the crews and space hardware had been publicized decades before. 527 likes.

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… The MOL's principal mission (classified at the time) was to establish a manned surveillance platform in orbit, built around the DORIAN high resolution camera system. Here's a breakdown of what the military spy space station would have entailed. The earth orbit station used a helium-oxygen atmosphere. Number: 1 .

The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) was a 1960s Air Force program with the ostensible mission to place military personnel in orbit to conduct scientific experiments to determine the “military usefulness” of placing man into space and the techniques and procedures for doing so if the need ever arose. The Manned Orbiting Laboratory program had a short but influential life: announced in December 1963, authorized in August 1965 and cancelled in June 1969.

In 1966, 1967 and 1968, MOL’s schedule slipped and its cost increased (see “Blue suits and red ink: Budget overruns and schedule slips in the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program,” The Space Review, November 2, 2015.)