The National Reconnaissance Office is starting a series on the history of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory, a small space lab that was designed in the early/mid 1960s for the Air Force. Officially just a basic space lab, in reality it was an advanced (for the time) spy satellite. So far there is only Part One on the NRO website, and there’s not much to it… but we’ll see how it goes.

The story of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory – part one

As a reminder, there is a whole freakin’ mountain of MOL documents on the NRO website:

Index, Declassified Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) Records