A film which deals with NASA's launch of the pioneering Telstar telecommunications satellite. The documentary starts with the night of July 9th 1962, when the final pre-launch tests are being made on the Telstar satellite equipment. Footage as follows: final tests on the electronic equipment in Andover; antennae at Andover, Brittany, France and Cornwall, England; guidance control centre; Telstar receives protective sheathing; the Bell telephone laboratories in New Jersey; Dr. John Pierce lectures on his ideas; microwave towers, the concept of satellite telecommunications; telecommunications scientific research; the Andover antenna, and its forerunner the New Jersey antenna; Bell laboratories construction, testing and delivery of the first Telstar satellite; transfer of booster to launch area, rocket installed to launchpad; mating of Telstar to third stage booster; satellite 'canned' for transport, hoisted to top of launch tower, mated to second stage; gantry pulls back, rocket on launchpad; control centres, i

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