the telstar is set aloft from cape canaveral atop a four delta rocket. /governmentindustry effort, the team and sosa for at&t. is a $50 million phone call for the telephone company. -- it is a $50 million phone call for the telephone company. call for the orbiting of 20-20 five orbiting satellites like the telstar. when one passes out of range, another will be in position. there is a receiver and transmitter in great britain at cornwall. in france on the coast of brittany. even when telstar is launched, the french rush to complete their installation to receive a signal. the rocket climbs far into the atmosphere and the telstar is about to separate and orbit the earth each 2.5 hours. with the sixth orbit and through the night, the telstar is in range of both the u.s. and european stations aired pictures are received clearly in france. the signals are beamed from this 18 story dome that houses the supersensitive horn waiting nearly 400 tons. an antenna so delicately tuned that it picks up a mere whisper of a signal from the satellite and amplifies it again

even as telstar is launched, the french rush to complete their installation. now the rocket climbs into the atmosphere and the telstar is about to separate an orbit the earth each 2.5 hours. ♪ starting with the sixth orbit and through the night, the andtar is in range of u.s. european stations, and pictures are received clearly in france with lesser success in britain on the first test. the signals are deemed from the 18 story dome that houses the tons, anhing 400 antenna that is so delicately tearing that it picks up a whisper of the satellite and amplifies it billions of times for rebroadcast over cable or the air. now comes the historic moment, a moment compared in significance the first message sent over the telegraph. this is the first picture transmitted to outer space and received back again on earth. scenes of the dome are flashed across the sea. and man marks another milestone in this age of scientific miracles. so proudly it waves. ♪ hold?oes the future scientists visualize a belt of telstars and circling the globe in such a matter that transmission