Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Today In History: Moving pictures from outer space.

On this day in 1962, a little ball not quite three feet in diameter, spinning high above the Earth's surface, relayed the first live television broadcast across the waters of the Atlantic.
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5 comments:

BobG said...

I remember it well.

10:25 AM, July 23, 2008
GeorgeAtl said...

I hate to sound like an old fart, but I watched that live broadcast too!!

11:22 AM, July 23, 2008
NotClauswitz said...

Telstar! My parents limited our TV watching (and comic books, and...you name it, there was censorship) and to this day maintain a palpable disdain for anything other than "educational" TV. We did see the moon landing.

12:17 PM, July 23, 2008
Anonymous said...

And we had to listen to that friggin' electromusic instrumental for six months afterward.

7:32 PM, July 23, 2008
T.Stahl said...

"That's impossible! Our Germans are better than their Germans!"

3:44 PM, July 24, 2008

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