This item is a first edition souvenir commemorative album documenting the first transcontinental telephone call via the groundbreaking Telestar Satellite from U.S. Senator Warren G. Magnuson (1905-1989) and Senator Robert Kerr (1896-1963), calling Washington State Governor Albert Rosellini (1910-2011) and Ewen Dingwall from atop the newly constructed, 600-foot-high Space Needle. Launched by NASA aboard the Delta Rocket from Cape Canaveral on July 10, 1962, Telstar 1 was the first privately sponsored space launch and, on its second working orbit, transmitted the phone call. On July 11, 1962, the Telstar 1 relayed its first non-public television pictures to Pleaumeur-Borour and, two weeks later, the first live television signal. The Telstar 1 satellite transformed global communications and accelerated the move toward communications transmissions globally for the first time.

The album contains the full transcript of the call between Senator Magnuson, Mr. Dingwall, Senator Kerr, and Governor Rosellini. There is an audio recording of the telephone call on a phonograph record.

Five photographs depict Governor Rosellini and Mr. Dingwall seated at the top of the Space Needle on the phone. Also included in one image is Erle Hannum (1902-1982), public relations manager for Pacific Northwest Bell, and Jay Rockey (1928-2018), public relations director for the Seattle World's Fair. Additionally, there is a Bell System Experiments in Active Satellite Communications "Project Telstar" booklet. The booklet contains information about key concepts, research and development, testing and refinements, construction of a space hill in Andover, Maine, the raising of the permanent Radome, control equipment, and the Telstar satellite orbit.