After pioneering this technology and growing the market, COMSAT fell prey to changes in government policy and to its own lack of entrepreneurial talent. The author explores the factors which contributed to this rise and fall of COMSAT.

Neil Armstrong; Edwin Aldrin; Charles Conrad; Alan Bean; Alan Shepard; Edgar Mitchell; David Scott; James Irwin; John Young; Charles Duke; Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt.

"The question of government regulation of the Communications Satellite Corporation (Comsat) is paramount because of Comsat's market power in providing international satellite circuits to U.S. users.

... Comsat's customers and earth station co - owners , WUI suggests that the waiver be conditioned on Comsat agreeing that the proposed system shall , if the Commission so determines , be transferred to any other eligible international ...