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Lockheed Martin

Acquired

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How Did NASA Get Film From Space? They Dropped It!

The process of getting film photography from space required dropping a canister with delicate film from orbit./nThe film canisters had retro rockets built in to reaccelerate them out of orbit and into the atmosphere./nA custom designed canister called the film bucket was used to separate and start falling to earth.

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