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To: PIF

Clementine mission was to test SDI imagery and sensors. It ending up with the Navy was the result of some creative political funding to get it through a hostile Congress that tried to thwart President Reagan’s “Star Wars” space-based missile defense program at every turn. Turning it into a non-obvious military program to assist in space exploration allowed it to get the political support to actually happen. It was a huge success, which almost resulted in a Clementine II mission that would have found ice on the Moon much sooner.


31 posted on 07/01/2012 2:06:52 PM PDT by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: anymouse

In any case the high res images are still classified, AFAIK


32 posted on 07/01/2012 2:40:27 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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