July 10, 1962 - Telstar Satellite Transmits Call to Vice President Johnson in D.C. from Andover, ME

July 10, 1962 - Live television pictures leaped the ocean for the first time tonight when broadcasts beamed from Andover, Me., were relayed to France and England by way of the Telstar satellite. The three major TV networks in this country broke into their evening programs to carry major portions of the initial satellite telecast. The pictures were sent on the Telstar’s sixth and seventh orbits. They were bounced back from the satellite to the originating point in Maine, and then to a smaller, horn-shaped antenna at Holmdel, N.J. Then they went out over conventional TV across the nation. Top officials of the Bell System, which built the satellite and the installation in Maine, were jubilant over the success of their Telstar satellite. The first pictures to cross the ocean were of Vice President Johnson and other officials gathered in the Carnegie Institute Auditorium in Washington.