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Many Valleyites may not be aware that Carmel Valley’s Earth Station played a vital role in Intelsat’s world-wide communications global network from the late 1960s to the 1990s. Among its historic transmissions was the famous “first step” TV pictures of Apollo 11’s moon landing mission. An updated and improved version of this amazing history is now available on our website and at the History Center Museum. It is authored and self-published by CVHS historian Jeff Ohlson.