
Episode 111 - To Boldly Transmit
Advent of Computing
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The History of Space Travel and Satellites
There were books and short stories discussing space travel as far back as the 1930s. The most common work cited as pre-space age writing is a 1945 article by Arthur C. Clarke. By 1955, Project Orbiter was the first coordinated attempt in the US to throw something to space. This was followed by a number of other projects, both public, private, and covert.
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