I saw the first Telstar telecast when it happened. I was 18. I had just graduated from high school and had experienced the entire space race from Sputnik forward to that time. There were a lot of misfires between those two events, but the progress was pretty astounding. The very idea of Telstar was awesome...way before that word became the most over-used word in the language. Great memory. I wish they had reproduced the entire broadcast. The Tabernacle Choir sang from Mt. Rushmore and in Utah we were pretty happy about that.

I remember that instrumental playing on the radio. Telstar. I would love to hear it again.

Wow this guy has VHS tapes in his office cool!

A little surprised they didn't put in a moment of the instrumental inspired by Telstar that became a number one hit!---(called Telstar, of course). That little piece of music played endlessly at the time...and is still pretty cool!

1962. What a Great 😃👍 Year. Camelot, Telstar and Seattle's Space Needle.

OMG, it's R2D2's long lost 60 y.o. papa!

The actually ground breaking technology was the Ampex VR 1000 video tape recorder (shown in video time 0:23). To record a complexes tv signal was a milestone.

The clip of the Statue of Liberty and nothing on the other side of the screen wasn't a glitch. The recording was made on the US side of the link. On the Europe side they added their image of the Eiffel Tower on the other side of the screen and the European viewers saw both side by side. Since their was only one channel of video, going from the US to Europe, viewers in the US had no way of seeing the Eiffel tower and therefore the complete image. One channel, one way, for 20 minutes every 2 hours or so.

Its service life was cut short when the orbit took it through the remnants of a nuclear explosion that basically fried most of its electronics.

Is the telestar still in operation

My Dad built Telstar’s radiation detector.

now we watch soccer games from europe and think nothing of it there had to be a first time.

Wow that’s been very long time without color

@jojopuppyfish

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They had color since at least 1964. The ability to record in color was very rare.....I think. I am referencing the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson as an example

@nomenclature9373

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I grew up in the 60s and remember tv shows starting with "This show is in COLOR" Me: Mom, can we get a color TV. Mom: Black & white is fine, now go help dad get replacement vacuum tubes so I can watch Lawrence Welk.

wow!! 🙌⛩️🕉️☯️⚛️⛩️🙌.

TELEPORTATION ---- That's what the three cups of coffee's for. Even so, trips are limited to the restroom and back.