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UN Secretary-General U Thant with ITU Secretary-General Gerald Gross, “W3GG”, entering the Varembé Building for the 4U1ITU inauguration ceremony on Sunday, 10 June 1962
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The ISS crew replies to student questions during the contact with 4U1ITU
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The first amateur radio satellite, OSCAR-1, on display in the ITU Varembé lobby
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Nobel laureate Joe Taylor, K1JT, oversees the station’s first EME (Earth-Moon-Earth) contact with the lunar surface on the 1,296 megahertz (23cm) frequency band
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First Morse code CW contact from 4U1ITU, with W3GG operating the key at 11:30 on inauguration day
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Engineers from ITU’s International Radio Consultative Committee (ICRR) assembling the first 4U1ITU antenna on the Varembé roof
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A collection of past QSL cards – or written confirmations of successful contacts – from the 4U1ITU station
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4U1ITU contacts the ISS as part of the ARISS initiative