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To: BenLurkin

Our satellites did this routinely all the way back in the 1960’s.

2 posted on 10/27/2014 8:00:04 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)

To: 2ndDivisionVet

True, but once digitization of high def photos was employed, the need for the return of film went away.

Glad to see it's not a lost "art", as so many other abilities have become.

9 posted on 10/27/2014 8:10:09 AM PDT by Calvin Locke

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Our satellites did this routinely all the way back in the 1960’s.

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They would return film canisters that would be snagged by aircraft as they floated down by parachute.

24 posted on 10/27/2014 12:08:24 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)

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