Scrapbook 3: Doctors Operate—By Telstar

DOCTORS OPERATE—BY TELSTAR

By RONALD BEDFORD, Mirror Science Editor

TOP British skin specialists and their patients are to star in a doctors-only transatlantic TV programme via Telstar tomorrow.

And United States scientists are to send a six-ton telescope to the fringes of the atmosphere next year for a close-up look at the canals of Mars.

These next-steps-in-Space projects were announced yesterday.

THE DOCTORS will meet, with their patients, at the Royal Naval Air Station at Culdrose, Cornwall, not far from the GPO’s radio telescope at Goonhilly Downs.

Their pictures, to be seen by medical men only, will be transmitted via Telstar to Washington, where 3,000 international skin specialists are holding a conference.

The programme opens up the possibility of medical TV from Space. Top specialists in one country could direct operations in another country where life was at stake.