{"id":219,"date":"2008-12-18T11:31:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T16:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=219"},"modified":"2013-02-12T05:59:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T10:59:31","slug":"first-broadcast-space-50-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/first-broadcast-space-50-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Broadcast from Space: 50 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s installment in our recurring series of space anniversaries is the launch of Project SCORE, fifty years ago today.<\/p>\n

On December 18, 1958, the Project SCORE — Signal Communication by Orbiting Relay Equipment — satellite was launched on a USAF Atlas rocket from the Eastern Space & Missile Center in Florida. The US Army Signal Research and Development Laboratory at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, designed the payload. <\/p>\n

The mission featured the first messages broadcast from space, including the voice of President Eisenhower saying, <\/p>\n

This is the President of the United States speaking. Through the marvels of scientific advance, my voice is coming to you from a satellite circling in outer space. My message is a simple one. Through this unique means I convey to you and all mankind America’s wish for peace on earth and good will to men everywhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nYou can read more about Project SCORE here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I think back to ten years ago at this time, and I had just come off a tour in which I helped operate two of the most sophisticated and secure communications satellites ever built — the first two Milstar satellites — and started a tour in which I would be using Milstar for nuclear command and control. In terms of space communications, we’ve certainly come a long way in a relatively short time.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s installment in our recurring series of space anniversaries is the launch of Project SCORE, fifty years ago today. On December 18, 1958, the Project SCORE — Signal Communication by Orbiting Relay Equipment — satellite was launched on a USAF Atlas rocket from the Eastern Space & Missile Center in \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-space-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}