Exploring the Unknown - NASA's History Office

Contents
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Biographies of Volume III Essay Authors and Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii
Chapter One
Essay: “The History of Satellite Communications,” by Joseph N. Pelton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Documents
I-1 and I-2 Arthur C. Clarke, “The Space-Station: Its Radio Applications,”
May 25, 1945; and Arthur C. Clarke, “Extra-Terrestrial Relays:
Can Rocket Stations Give World-Wide Radio Coverage?,”
Wireless World, October 1945, pp. 305–308 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
I-3 John R. Pierce, “Exotic Radio Communications,” Bell Laboratories
Records, September 1959, pp. 323–329. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
I-4 Memorandum from S. G. Lutz to A.V. Haeff, “Commercial Satellite
Communication Project; Preliminary Report of Study Task Force,”
October 22, 1959 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
I-5 H.A. Rosen and D.D. Williams, Commercial Communications Satellite,
Report RDL/B-1, Engineering Division, Hughes Aircraft Company,
January 1960 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
I-6 “Memorandum for Conference on Communications Satellite
Development,” December 7, 1960 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
I-7 White House Press Secretary, “Statement by the President,”
December 30, 1960 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
I-8 Federal Communications Commission, “FCC Relation to Space
Communication,” Public Notice-G, 1627, March 14, 1961 . . . . . . . . . . . 42
I-9 and I-10 F.R. Kappel, President, American Telephone and Telegraph
Company, to the Honorable James E. Webb, Administrator,
NASA, April 5, 1961 (with several attachments); and
James E. Webb, Administrator, to F.R. Kappel, President,
American Telephone and Telegraph Company, April 8, 1961 . . . . . . . . 45
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