Novelist and military historian Caleb Carr died of cancer Thursday at his home in Cherry Plains, N.Y. He was 68. Caleb Carr, the great military historian and novelist, has died at the age of 68. He ...

A half-century ago, the world became much smaller. Until then, it was hard to get telephone and television signals from other continents. But then came the launch of Telstar on July 10, 1962 — and ...

Telstar are back in the top flight for the first time in decades after surprising everyone with their victory over Willem II in the play-offs. However, they have since lost their talismanic striker in ...

Telstar will enter the Eredivisie without Mitch Apau, as per VoetbalPrimeur reports. The 35-year-old defender, who played a major role in the White Lions’ promotion as captain, has decided to play for ...

AUSTIN, Texas — In the summer of 1962, the world was teetering on the brink of a new era. In the cold void of space, above Earth’s atmosphere, the Telstar communication satellite had begun its ...

The energy, craziness and often downright shabbiness of London’s early ’60s, pre-Beatles pop biz are vividly brought to life in “Telstar: The Joe Meek Story,” a biopic of the legendary ...

Fifty years ago today, the little Telstar satellite relayed the first TV transmission across the Atlantic. It wasn't long before President Kennedy had his black-and-white electrons beamed from the U.S ...

(SPACE.com) Fifty years ago today, on July 12, 1962, the first ever live television signal was beamed across the Atlantic Ocean, ushering in a new era of communications that paved the way for the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Telstar was the name of a pair of communications satellites NASA launched in the 1960s. The twin ...

Yesterday was a rather big anniversary. It was fifty years since the first live pictures from America were broadcast to Europe, via Telstar 1, the first communications satellite to relay a television ...