The amount of film loaded into cameras launched in 20 U.S. spy satellites, during the Cold War. When shot, the film was jettisoned in buckets that plummeted back to earth where an Air Force C-130 plane snagged the bucket with a grappling hook out of the Pacific Ocean and rushed it to be developed.
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