> Imagine what it took to develop the photos in space and beam them back to earth. For one type of satellite that I heard about, the US were dropping the film

> Imagine what it took to develop the photos in space and beam them back to earth. For one type of satellite that I heard about, the US were dropping the film canisters and catching them in flight, to develop later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(satellite) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(satellite)