In 1961, a film crew visited the Goldstone Tracking Station to do a segment for the television show "CBS Reports". They are shown here at the Echo site, in front of an 85-foot antenna. Walt Victor, Chief of JPL's Communications Systems Research Section, provided commentary for the program. This antenna was later moved to another site, used for radar detection of the planet Venus, and designated Deep Space Station 13 (DSS-13).

During the 1950s and 1960s, JPL was featured in a variety of magazines and radio and television programs, including Aviation Week, Saturday Evening Post, Time, Bill Garr Interviews, Climax, Disney's Man in Space, Threshold to Outer Space, and Wide Wide World.

For more information about the Deep Space Network, Goldstone Tracking Station, and the history of JPL, contact the JPL Archives.