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This is President Eisenhower speaking.
It is a great personal satisfaction to participate in this first experiment in communication involving the use of the satellite balloon known as Echo.
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Ralph IMF read out is 31 degrees, 32 minutes north.
70 degrees one minute west.
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Communications satellites routinely provide reliable telephone service on a global basis.
And important events are brought into our living rooms through intercontinental television.
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Coming close to reality, Satellites that broadcast news, educational and cultural programs to populations of entire nations.
Meteorological spacecraft aid and daily weather conditions.
Satellites for navigation traffic control will help make better economic and safer use of air corridors and ocean Earth surveys from space should offer another means of preserving natural resources.
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We are sharing many benefits from space right now.
As we develop this potential in the future, applications from space will have continued, profound, and direct effects on our everyday lives here on earth.
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