Jim Davis wrote in
. 247.90:

Pat Flannery wrote:

Read "The Corona Project" sometime...hide in plain site. Once
the taped-on craft paper comes off of the Canaveral launched
Discover satellites camera aperture, they amazingly transform
into recon sats during first stage burn.

Are you sure *you* read "The Corona Project"? All CORONA missions
were launched from Vandenberg, all were launched by the DoD, NASA had
no connection.

Besides, he's still missing Ed's point. The DoD is already running their
own autonomous rendezvous/prox ops/docking program (XSS-11) openly. They
have little interest in NASA's DART program (they're convinced that XSS-11
will work better than DART, anyway), so the idea that DART is some kind of
"hide in plain sight" DoD program is pretty ludicrous.

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