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
Staff Writer, Spaceflight

Elizabeth Howell (she/her), Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022 specializing in Canadian space news. She was contributing writer for Space.com for 10 years before joining full-time. Elizabeth's reporting includes multiple exclusives with the White House, speaking several times with 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.