Telstar: a satellite and a song that encircled the world
"Telstar was launched by NASA on July 10, 1962, from Cape Canaveral, Fla., and was the first privately sponsored space-faring mission. Two days later, it relayed the world's first transatlantic television signal, from Andover Earth Station, Maine, to the Pleumeur-Bodou Telecom Center, Brittany, France."
The launch of this telecommunication satellite was so ground-breaking that the Tornados, a British rock band, recorded an instrumental called "Telstar" in its honor. The weird sounds of the clavioline, an electronic keyboard instrument, that was a forerunner to the analog synthesizer, made listeners feel that they were in outer space. The recording was #1 in the UK and the US.
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