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Television broadcasts from outer space began in essence on 7th of October 1959, when the radio-television system of automatic interplanetary station "Luna-3" began transmitting to Earth pictures of the back side of the Moon. Space television has become an important link in processes of globalization. TV report about the first orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin (April 12th, 1961) was broadcasted to Helsinki, London, Berlin and other European cities. The world watched on television the landing of the first man on the moon (N. Armstrong, and others), the expeditions to the moon by the Apollo program (1969-1972).