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T. Keith Glennan Shows LBJ Aluminized Mylar Flim Used to Make Echo I

NASA Administrator T. Keith Glennan shows then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, Chairman of the Senate's Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, a sample of the aluminized Mylar film used to fabricate the 100-foot-diameter Echo I balloon. Project Echo was the U.S.'s first passive communications satellite. It was a balloon that inflated once in orbit and radio signals were "bounced" off the aluminized surface of the balloon. It was launched into orbit on August 12, 1960 at 5:39 am EDT.

 

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Taken on August 12, 1960