JFK speaks about launch of Telstar satellite in 1962.

[madfloridian]

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"John F. Kennedy announced the first satellite launch ever that allows the US to talk to people overseas. Fascinating!"

From Wiki on Telstar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstar

"Launched by NASA aboard a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral on July 10, 1962, Telstar was the first privately sponsored space launch. A medium-altitude satellite, Telstar was placed in an elliptical orbit (completed once every 2 hours and 37 minutes), revolving at a 45 degree angle above the equator. Because of this, its transmission availability for transatlantic signals was only 20 minutes in each orbit."

[Gloria]

1. TELSTAR!! an instrumental by the Tornadoes was made in celebration

of Telstar! (I still have the 45rpm single.)

Around the same time, I guess....ECHO....I saw that up in the sky........

[nicknameless]

4. Yep. TELSTAR, the only satellite with its own theme song!

... My sister owned a 45 of that too.

:)

[DianeG5385]

2. Just so you know I watched this

They had correspondents in multiple locations, Paris, England and it was stunning and not perfect, but stunning. My Grandad was mad because his soap operas were interrupted!!!! I was 7.

[madfloridian]

3. I watched it also, but I was older than that.

Not saying how old though.

It is unreal how far the world has come in technology in such a short time span. With the advent of computers in home and business, things just took off.