Word: telstar
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...perhaps the A.D.D.L. will even damn A.T. & T, for their experimental Telstar because it is a use of outer space, that area which man should stay out of, even as the Wright brothers were cursed for flying within the terrestrial atmosphere...
...fringes of space by thermonuclear power, the imagination of the civilized world was captured by an even more dramatic U.S. achievement: the lofting into the heavens of a bejeweled sphere crammed with man-made magic wands that turn blips and beeps into sights and sounds. With the launching of Telstar (mispronounced by most as Telestar), the U.S. raised the curtain on intercontinental television and opened a whole new epoch in the art of communications. Even more, by its immediate and remarkable success, Telstar...
...Gave new luster to that oft-whipped old goat, Free Enterprise. Conceived and built by American Telephone & Telegraph's Bell Laboratories, Telstar is private industry's first space vehicle and its launching a proud example of how government and industry can work together for mutual benefit...
...Telstar trailed behind it the stuff of history. To the annals of place names like Kitty Hawk, Palomar and Canaveral it added Andover, the earth station in Maine; a place with the wonderful name of Goonhilly, in southwest England; and the euphonious Pleumeur-Bodou, in Brittany. In the long record of man's scientific triumphs, it ranked in drama with Morse's telegraphic message ("What hath God wrought!") and Bell's first telephoned sentence ("Mr. Watson, come here-I want you!''). To many Americans, as they sat by their TV sets, it evoked memories...