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Another important actor of the late LM&SS drama was Charles Matthews, who was Mueller associate administrator. He was present at Mueller side on January 26 and as late as April 1967 he rejected the idea that Lunar Orbiter imagery was good enough.

https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/foia/declass/UPWARD/29. Comparison of Lunar Orbiter and LMSS.pdf

Lunar Orbiter achieved 1 m resolution but he mentions 0.2 m as desirable !

the most "reasonable" NASA man in the entire story seems to have been Bob Seamans, who aparently was doing his best to cool down, military anxiety and anger on one side, and NASA foolishness on the other...

NASA attitude was pretty weird, they did not seemed to realize how nervous / anxious they made the NRO by pushing LEO UPWARD and toying with G.E PERCHERON proposal.
Sometimes I'm wondering if Webb and NASA did not deliberately pushed for Earth orbit UPWARD, with an Ike "Open skies" vision. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Open_Skies#History
Of course at the height of Cold War that was just unacceptable to the militaries of both superpowers.

<blockquote data-quote="Archibald" data-source="post: 372355" data-attributes="member: 138">Another important actor of the late LM&amp;SS drama was Charles Matthews, who was Mueller associate administrator. He was present at Mueller side on January 26 and as late as April 1967 he rejected the idea that Lunar Orbiter imagery was good enough.<a href="https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/foia/declass/UPWARD/29.%20Comparison%20of%20Lunar%20Orbiter%20and%20LMSS.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/foia/declass/UPWARD/29. Comparison of Lunar Orbiter and LMSS.pdf</a>Lunar Orbiter achieved 1 m resolution but he mentions 0.2 m as desirable !the most &quot;reasonable&quot; NASA man in the entire story seems to have been Bob Seamans, who aparently was doing his best to cool down, military anxiety and anger on one side, and NASA foolishness on the other... NASA attitude was pretty weird, they did not seemed to realize how nervous / anxious they made the NRO by pushing LEO UPWARD and toying with G.E PERCHERON proposal.Sometimes I'm wondering if Webb and NASA did not deliberately pushed for Earth orbit UPWARD, with an Ike &quot;Open skies&quot; vision. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Open_Skies#History" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Open_Skies#History</a>Of course at the height of Cold War that was just unacceptable to the militaries of both superpowers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Archibald, post: 372355, member: 138"] Another important actor of the late LM&SS drama was Charles Matthews, who was Mueller associate administrator. He was present at Mueller side on January 26 and as late as April 1967 he rejected the idea that Lunar Orbiter imagery was good enough. [URL='https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/foia/declass/UPWARD/29.%20Comparison%20of%20Lunar%20Orbiter%20and%20LMSS.pdf']https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/foia/declass/UPWARD/29. Comparison of Lunar Orbiter and LMSS.pdf[/URL] Lunar Orbiter achieved 1 m resolution but he mentions 0.2 m as desirable ! the most "reasonable" NASA man in the entire story seems to have been Bob Seamans, who aparently was doing his best to cool down, military anxiety and anger on one side, and NASA foolishness on the other... NASA attitude was pretty weird, they did not seemed to realize how nervous / anxious they made the NRO by pushing LEO UPWARD and toying with G.E PERCHERON proposal. Sometimes I'm wondering if Webb and NASA did not [I]deliberately[/I] pushed for Earth orbit UPWARD, with an Ike "Open skies" vision. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Open_Skies#History[/URL] Of course at the height of Cold War that was just unacceptable to the militaries of both superpowers. [/QUOTE]

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