"National Assets" To Image Discovery In Flight
Secret Imaging of NASA Shuttle Discovery During STS-114 Mission, Aviation Week & Space Technology/AviationNow.com
“Safety-and engineering-related pictures of the shuttle Discovery in orbit will include imagery by secret U. S. Defense Dept. ground-based high-resolution systems and, where possible, one or more U. S. Air Force/National Reconnaissance Office imaging reconnaissance satellites already in orbit.”
