I had to read about it and I think they are right. The spy sattelite was meant to cover large chunks of the earth so it needed to roll at super high speeds. It wouldnt have been able to ride on pockets of air, if there was no air since there is none in space or not very much at the edge of the atmosphere.
It proably helped keep the film intact when the pods were jettisoned.
Blows my mind they were able to snag these things mid air before they even touched ground, they deploy a parachute of course but they must have had some good accuracy with the system.
Looking at the cameras they used on the moon, they were just regular cameras that had some slight modifications to it. I guess lack of atmosphere or the vacuum of space wouldnt really affect the polarization of light.
I had to read about it and I think they are right. The spy sattelite was meant to cover large chunks of the earth so it needed to roll at super high speeds. It wouldnt have been able to ride on pockets of air, if there was no air since there is none in space or not very much at the edge of the atmosphere.
It proably helped keep the film intact when the pods were jettisoned.
Blows my mind they were able to snag these things mid air before they even touched ground, they deploy a parachute of course but they must have had some good accuracy with the system.
Looking at the cameras they used on the moon, they were just regular cameras that had some slight modifications to it. I guess lack of atmosphere or the vacuum of space wouldnt really affect the polarization of light.
This is literally the guy who designed the camera. He says the film was pressurized so it wasn't exposed to vacuum.