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Posted by michael on Thursday July 11, 2002 @09:01AM from the ground-control-to-major-tom dept.

markhb writes "40 years ago today, the first trans-Atlantic TV transmission made it out of the Maine woods and into history, via the original Telstar. The IEEE and Lucent plan to commemorate the event at three events today in Pleumeur-Bodou, France, Goonhilly Downs, England, and Andover, Maine."

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Ad? (Score:2, Funny)

by undeg chwech ( 589211 ) writes: on Thursday July 11, 2002 @09:04AM (#3863633) Homepage

Was it an ad for TVs?

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Disclaimer (Score:4, Funny)

by tunah ( 530328 ) writes: <sam@kra y u p . c om> on Thursday July 11, 2002 @09:05AM (#3863635) Homepage

The IEEE and Lucent plan to commemorate the event at three events today in Pleumeur-Bodou, France, Goonhilly Downs, England, and Andover, Maine
Disclaimer: Slashdot is a subsidiary of Andover [andover.net]/OSDN [osdn.com]
Oh, wait...

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Andover, ME? (Score:3, Funny)

by anti-snot ( 555305 ) writes: on Thursday July 11, 2002 @09:20AM (#3863718)

Andover? I thought Andover went under?

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Hi-Res photo of Telstar 1 (Score:5, Funny)

by green pizza ( 159161 ) writes: on Thursday July 11, 2002 @09:35AM (#3863789) Homepage

http://www.lucent.com/minds/telstar/telstarsat.jpg [lucent.com]

It sickens me that this is hosted by Lucent, but it does the job. Too bad more neat "online" photos wern't at this resolution...

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