Presents the recently declassified story of the design, development, production, and operation of the Hexagon KH-9 reconnaissance satellite, that provided photographic intelligence to the United States government, and it stands as one of the most complicated systems ever put into space.

Hooray for MORE hexagons! The best-selling author of The New Hexagon is back with 52 new ways to play with hexagon shapes. Using her efficient, accurate methods for English paper piecing, Katja Marek shares streamlined how-to techniques such as basting with glue and using precut paper templates. Katja's also expanded the hex-abilities by including a variety of block sizes. Choose from: 14 twelve-inch blocks 38 six-inch blocks 5 pretty projects to show off the blocks you create!

Anthony Redman, a confirmed atheist, doesnt realise it yet but he is on the verge of an amazing discovery. Once made, this discovery will change his life, and the lives of those around him, forever. He barely has a chance to decide what to do with his discovery before all hell breaks loose. From explosions to cold-blooded murder the journey begins. This is a journey that will take Anthony to Italy and on a papal mission to Israel. This is a journey that will reach deep into his soul and to the heavens above. That first discovery was an eye opener that will lead to a greater, more important, discovery that is nothing less than a revelation.

The United States developed the Gambit and Hexagon programs to improve the nation's means for peering over the iron curtain that separated western democracies from east European and Asian communist countries. The inability to gain insight into vast "denied areas" required exceptional systems to understand threats posed by US adversaries. Corona was the first imagery satellite system to help see into those areas. Hexagon began as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program with the first concepts proposed in 1964. The CIA's primary goal was to develop an imagery system with Corona-like ability to image wide swaths of the earth, but with resolution equivalent to Gambit. Such a system would afford the United States even greater advantages monitoring the arms race that had developed with the nation's adversaries. The system that became Hexagon faced three major challenges. The first was development of the technology, which was eventually overcome by the Itek and Perkin-Elmer Corporations. The second was bureaucratic, deciding how the CIA and Air Force would cooperate in building such a system because they each had strengths and weaknesses in the development of national reconnaissance systems. The third challenge was to secure the resources that were required to build the most complicated and largest reconnaissance satellites at the time. By 1971, the NRO overcame the challenges to successfully launch the Hexagon satellite and fulfill, or even exceed, expectations for unparalleled insight into capabilities of US adversaries.

Get in on the hexagon craze as you color 60 intricate and entrancing designs inspired by the work of the hexagon queen herself, Katja Marek. Relax and express your creative side as you bring your special style to today's hottest shape Quilters and coloring enthusiasts alike will enjoy exploring the artistic possibilities in these expertly designed coloring pages Use the coloring sheets to plan your own eye-catching hexagon quilt or as a companion to Katja's best-selling The New Hexagon Perpetual Calendar and The New Hexagon.Video

These six-sided wonders are hiding all around us! Bees and turtles both love them. Easy text and large pictures help early readers discover hexagons are fun!

When three kids' secret code is interfered with, it's the start of an adventure.