Back in the day, some scientists realized that if there was a big “something” up in space, they just might be able to bounce a signal off of it, and then have that signal received in a far-away location. This movie shows one of the first successful tests of satellite communications in the 1950’s, at a time when land lines of copper carried almost all signals. The high-technology featured in this film is the stuff of today’s dusty museum exhibits.

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