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    "sender_name": "Eric Rosenberg",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] National Air and Space Museum To Recognize Telstar on\tThursday, July 12th",
    "date": "2012-07-09T13:58:58Z",
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    "content": "Telstar, the satellite that made the world’s first transmissions of live\ntelevision possible in 1962, will be the subject of a program at the\nSmithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum July 12. The “Telstar 50th\nAnniversary” symposium, which will begin at 1:30 p.m., will be presented in\ncooperation with the Embassy of France. It will begin with a satellite\ntelevision connection to the Pleumeur-Bodou Telecommunications Museum in\nFrance commemorating the first global transmission of a television signal\n50 years ago.\n\n“It was that rarest of all television moments, the kind that compels\nviewers to lean forward and stare in a primal wonder and amazement at their\nscreens” was how newscaster Walter Cronkite described a Telstar-enabled\npublic broadcast that occurred about two weeks after the satellite’s launch\nand first test transmission July 10. A multinational event, the July 23\nbroadcast was carried by American networks CBS, NBC and ABC as well as CBC\nin Canada and Eurovision in Europe. The first pictures were of the Statue\nof Liberty and the Eiffel Tower. Although the program was to have begun\nwith remarks by President John F. Kennedy, the talk was delayed and a\nbaseball game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Chicago Cubs was\ntelevised in its place.\n\nThe symposium will be presented in two parts. Secretary of the Smithsonian\nWayne Clough will begin the satellite connection between the two museums.\nFrench Ambassador François Delattre and the U.S. General Consul in France,\nRobert Tate, will also speak.\n\n “Live broadcast of events happening throughout the world are taken for\ngranted today, but 50 years ago transmissions enabled by Telstar captured\nthe attention and imaginations of people everywhere,” Clough said. “The\n50th anniversary reminds us how far we have come, and how much potential\nthere is the new era of digital communications.”\n\nFollowing the satellite connection, historians and experts from industry\nand government will discuss Telstar’s historical\nsignificance, its impact on commercial space endeavors and the birth of\nglobal communications. Footage from the original 1962 broadcast between\nFrance and the United States on July 12 will be shown at the symposium.\nConcluding remarks will be delivered by State Department Assistant\nSecretary Kerri-Ann Jones.\n\nSupport for the program is provided by Intelsat and France Telecom-Orange.\nThe symposium will be held in the museum’s Moving Beyond Earth gallery.\nReservations are not required.\n\nTelstar 1 launched on July 10, 1962, from Cape Canaveral and was the first\nprivately sponsored space-faring mission. It handled a variety of\ntransmissions, including telephone, fax, data, still pictures and\ntelevision signals from several locations across the United States and\nEurope. The original Telstar was part of an agreement between AT&T, Bell\nTelephone Laboratories, NASA, the British General Post Office and the\nFrench National Post Telegraph and Telecom Office. The satellite was built\nat Bell Telephone Laboratories. A small model of Telstar 1 will be on\ndisplay during the symposium.\n\nMore information on the program may be found on the museum’s website and\nblog.\n",
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