Engineer - (getting Goonhilly built) : Mr Neil White

Transcript

Post Office was approached by the NASA people back in the 1960s, would they be interested in international communications via satellites. The expertise that was available at the time was military and the military people said they've just got no communications possibilities whatsoever but they didn't want to upset NASA so they decided to look for somebody in the Post Office who could perhaps handle it and talk to the NASA people. In those early days in the sixties they knew Goonhilly from its television transmission and in those early days, when pictures appeared on the television screen it usually said live by satellite. Nowadays you never see live by satellite because it's taken for granted that you can even watch a war as it's happening live by satellite.