Discoverer
Program
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Cover name for series of tests of early Keyhole film-return surveillance satellites. Some carried biological payloads as part of the USAF's early man-in-space effort.
Chronology
1 event
1960 August 19
- Discoverer XIV capsule snatched northwest of Hawaii. - . Spacecraft: Discoverer. Captain Harold E. Mitchell of the 6593d Test Squadron (Special), flying a C-119J "Flying Boxcar," recovered the descending Discoverer XIV capsule northwest of Hawaii..