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Science
Allie Hutchison

60 years ago, a forgotten NASA balloon in space changed how we watch TV forever


Sixty years ago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology made television history by sending itself a broadcast message. The image, the first-ever displayed on U.S. national television using a satellite broadcast, was a rather self-referential set of three letters: M.I.T.

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