Echo I bounces first voices, pictures beyond Earth's curve NASA launched Echo I, the world's first passive communications satellite, from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 12, 1960. "The principal use of the Echo satellite, is in radio communication experiments, in which reflection from the 100 foot...
"History Detectives" Investigate the Case of the Mylar Mystery There is a mystery afoot at Goddard - the case of the mylar mystery to be exact. On January 11, 2010, "History Detective" Tukufu Zuberi, from the PBS show "The History Detectives," came to Goddard to in...