FRANCE - 1962 September 29: An 25 centimes gray, yellow and green postage stamp depicting Space Communications Center, Pleumeur-Bodou. 1st TV connection of the US and Europe through Telstar satellite. Telstar 1 launched on top of a Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962. It successfully relayed through space the first television pictures, telephone calls, and telegraph images, and provided the first live transatlantic television feed

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France. Postage stamps All this postage stamps, as a physical objects, is part of a private collection owned by the author of the image

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Size: 6800px × 4200px
Location: Pleumeur-Bodou, France
Photo credit: © World of Stamp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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