Communications: How Diana touched the moon: An impromptu band of Army radio experimenters established man´s first contact with outer space in 1946

“A Jules Verne feat” … “in a class with the atomic bomb” … “Fantastic experiment” … “Applications almost beyond immediate comprehension.” These were some of the exultant phrases that hit newspaper readers on the morning of Friday, Jan. 25, 1946, as they learned how the U.S. Army had bounced a radar signal off the moon. “Man had finally reached beyond his own planet” was how Time magazine put it later.