Stuff
Product Details
Simon & Schuster, February 2004
Trade Paperback, 472 pages
ISBN-10: 0684857006
ISBN-13: 9780684857008
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Table of Contents
Contents
Preface
Cast of Characters
REIMAGINING RECONNAISSANCE
1946-1954
Chapter One
"Racing Toward Catastrophe"
Chapter Two
The Origins of Strategic Intelligence
Chapter Three
Stargazing in Santa Monica
Chapter Four
Seeing Air
Chapter Five
"I Think I Have the Plane You Are After"
A NEW SPY PLANE TAKES FLIGHT
1954-1956
Chapter Six
The Role of a Lifetime
Chapter Seven
"This Thing Is Made Out of Toilet Paper"
Chapter Eight
Photographing the President's Cattle
Chapter Nine
Big Game Hunting
VAULTING INTO SPACE
1956-1976
Chapter Ten
Earthbound
Chapter Eleven
Creating Corona
Chapter Twelve
"Go Off and Build That Thing"
Chapter Thirteen
Heartbreak
Chapter Fourteen
"Capsule Recovered Undamaged"
Chapter Fifteen
A Stradivarius, Not a Cracker Box
Epilogue
Losing the Inventive Spark
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
Next: Chapter 1
