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    Hughes Glomar Explorer - photo

    The Hughes Glomar Explorer was a deep-sea drilling ship used by the CIA to recover the wreck of the Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129.

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    I had a friend that was a crew member on that ship...

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    Summa Corporation, Ocean Mining Division

    As a former Hughes employee, I'm always watching for interesting Hughes stuff. Was on Ebay years ago. I immediately recognized the ship.

    Auction was from a Hughes executive's estate, had this and a couple of desktop satellite models. Guess no one else recognized the ship, because I got it for the low bid.

    This was the cover story, they were just mining the ocean floor for nickel nodules.

    Don't know how many they handed out, but it couldn't have been too many.
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    An amazing man, who lived at least four mens' lives, in a short 67 years. My wife once did some work for one of his attending physicians, and her boss told her, "Wherever Dr. X calls you from, that's where Howard Hughes is."

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    My uncle worked at the Hughes Research Laboratories. This is one of the later lasers. I'll make a post with photos of one of the first lasers...
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    Read about this ship in the book "Blind Man's Bluff". Most interesting.
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blin...rine_Espionage

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