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170 The Dorian Files Revealed: a Compendium of the NRO’s Manned Orbiting Laboratory Documents
Figure 62. MOL Controls Model
Source: CSNR Reference Collection
the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for R&D ‡ —was
formed at the end of June to do the work. The group held
its initial meeting in the Pentagon on 1 July. § At a second
meeting on the West Coast on 10-11 July, Systems
Office personnel and other officials briefed the group on
the status of MOL hardware and equipment and their
possible future use. During this second meeting, a plan
for a final report was adopted and various individuals
were designated to write certain sections. 5
‡ Dr. Yarymovych had joined Flax’s staff in 1968.
§ In attendance from the MOL. Program Office were Gen Stewart, Col
Stanley C. White, Lt Col Donald L. Steelman, and Mr. Samuel H. Hubbard.
Others present were: Brig Gen Raymond A. Gilbert,.AFSC; Brig Gen Louis
L. Wilson, SAMSO; Col R. Z. Nelson, Dir/Space, Hq USAF; W. C. Schneider,
Philip E. Culbertson, and M. W. Krueger, NASA; H. P. Barfield, ODDR&E; Lt
Col Larry Skantze: MOL Systems Office; and Capt. Robert Geiger, Office of
Space Systems.
Associate contractors were invited to submit
suggestions to the ad hoc group for disposition or
utilization of MOL equipment and technology. After their
presentations were made in Washington on 24 July,
the group began work on the final report. It considered
both the unclassified and classified MOL equipment.
Among the latter were the tracking mirror control system,
image velocity sensor, Bi-mat On-Board Film Processor,
visual display projector, acquisition tracking scope, and
the mission simulator. One of the group’s preliminary
findings, submitted to Secretary Seamans in a report
dated 1 August 1969, was that decisions on disposition
of most of the classified MOL equipment would have to
await completion of additional studies, already begun. 6