Jun 25 1967
From The Space Library
Thirteen nations participated in first live global telecast linking five continents. Program was transmitted to a potential viewing audience of nearly 500-million persons in more than 30 countries via NASA's ATS I and ComSatCorp's EARLY BIRD 1 and Intelsat II-B comsats. Entitled "Our World," two-hour telecast featured the Beatles, Van Cliburn and Leonard Bernstein, Japanese shrimp fishermen, a Canadian mermaid, and a Wisconsin farmer. Five Communist nations-including USSR., whose Molniya I comsat was to have been used to transmit the telecast-had withdrawn from the program June 21 as a protest against Western involvement in current Middle East crisis. (NASA Ann, 6/20/67; NET Proj Off)
During week of June 25: Ceremonies at NASA's Rocket Engine Test Site at Edwards AFB marked delivery of the millionth ton of cryogenic rocket propellants and pressurants. Fluids were used by North American Aviation, Inc.'s Rocketdyne Div. to test fire F-1 engines prior to shipping them to MSFC for use in Saturn V 1st stages. (MSFC Release 67-139)
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