Soooo at the end of the day, there are kind of three different MOLs in this TL (which share the same pressurized shell)
- military, unmanned (to complete or replace the KH-8)
- civilian, manned: Apollo mission module, NASA, remote sensing, no big camera
- military, manned: Apollo mission module, USAF / NRO, "piloted spysat" with the big camera.
Manned Spaceflight Engineers fly onboard Saturns and Apollo "surpluses", in an agreement somewhat similar to OTL military Shuttle missions.
[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_Spaceflight_Engineer_Program[/URL]
The MOL modules are launched ahead of them by Titan IIIs, either from The Cape or from Vandenberg.
