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980615-N-NO204-0001.JPG Photo By: National Reconnaissance Office

WASHINGTON - NRL designed and built the Galactic Radiation and Background, GRAB I, satellite (shown mounted atop the Transit IIA satellite) and a network of overseas data collection facilities. The launch was approved by President Dwight D. Eisenhower May 1960, just four days after a CIA U-2 aircraft was lost on a reconnaissance mission over Soviet territory. (Photo courtesy National Reconnaissance Office)


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