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Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
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Name of various communications satellites
Telstar is a series of communications satellites. The first two, Telstar 1 and Telstar 2, were experimental and nearly identical. Telstar 1 was launched atop a Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962, and relayed the first television pictures, telephone calls, and telegraph images…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Walter Cronkite
American broadcast journalist (1916–2009)
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