While still part of a race, and with competing superpowers trying to gain influence and power, the use of space for global communications was at the same time a more collective mission, already in its...

While still part of a race, and with competing superpowers trying to gain influence and power, the use of space for global communications was at the same time a more collective mission, already in its infancy, underlying an ambition to connect parts of the world and to lay ground for a universal understanding.