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Technicians mount Telstar onto a rocket for its launch into orbit. A creation of Bell Telephone Laboratories for AT&T, Telstar was the first privately sponsored, commercial payload to go into space, carried aloft by a government-funded NASA rocket.
July 12, 2012 1:47 PM PDT
Photo by: Courtesy of Alcatel-Lucent
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