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Since it's still the 21st in some places we can pretend I didn't forget to share this again. One of my all-time favourite HEXAGON captures: spacefromspace.com/declassified...

Harry Stranger@spacefromspace.com

One of my favourite KH-9 HEXAGON images was taken 47 years ago yesterday (July 21). The scene shows an awesome high off-nadir view of Florida's Space Coast including NASA's VAB, a Saturn V rocket display, and more.

21/7/26, 11:29 pm3 reposts13 likes

Harry Stranger

@spacefromspace.com

21 July

This wasn't the only image captured at such an angle. I don't remember off the top of my head exactly how many targets were captured in this way, but a large portion of the US east coast was imaged for sure. See the images below of Norfolk and the surrounding area, taken 10 frames prior to the Cape