Monday, May 04, 2009

The Year I was Born…

On January 4th, as the space race continued to heat up, the Soviet Luna 4 managed to attain Earth orbit, but failed to reach the moon as intended; but 1963 did see the United States successful launch of Syncom 2 in July, which was the first geosynchronous communications satellite which allowed ordinary citizens to begin using satellite-mediated communications transmissions for television broadcasts. Whether or not that was a good or bad thing is certainly debatable.

Posted by serloren at 11:03:00 AM  

2 comments:

R0bert said...

I actually remember those events, as well as others from that year, some i wish i could erase from not only memory, but history. Ah, well.

5/08/2009 1:22 PM  
serloren said...

Be prepared to be reminded then I guess. This was installment #2, and I intend to post another every couple of days to a week or so - especially ones that I can reference to something that is happening now in some way.

5/08/2009 4:46 PM  

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