The fourteenth CORONA mission (mission 9009, known to the public as Discoverer XIV) and the first fully operational mission. The cargo is recovered on the fly by Captain Harold Mitchell’s C-119 (later replaced by the more capable C-130). The film is returned and recovered. It contains detailed photographs of more territory than dozens of U-2 flights combined. Quickly, in the space of just a year, CORONA will assume the role that cracking ENIGMA had in World War II.
