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Each morning Tim Farley on SiriusXM 124 POTUS' Morning Briefing does "this day in presidential history", a brief item at ~50 minutes, repeated each hour. Interesting show.
Today, he played an audio clip of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's audio message bounced off Echo 1 -- Project Echo - Wikipedia -- on August 12, 1960. It was the first time a satellite was used to relay a message. Part of the message is in this YouTube
video. The full message is part of this History Channel First Speech Broadcast by Satellite video.
As a teenager I remember being in a darkened campground in the Great Smokies near the NC-TN border and seeing Echo 1 pass overheard. The sun was down, the sky was clear and stars were out, but the sun's angle was still able to light the 100-foot diameter ball.
Fun stuff.
Today, he played an audio clip of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's audio message bounced off Echo 1 -- Project Echo - Wikipedia -- on August 12, 1960. It was the first time a satellite was used to relay a message. Part of the message is in this YouTube
As a teenager I remember being in a darkened campground in the Great Smokies near the NC-TN border and seeing Echo 1 pass overheard. The sun was down, the sky was clear and stars were out, but the sun's angle was still able to light the 100-foot diameter ball.
Fun stuff.