When engineers had the stars in their sights [And Now This]

At the height of the space race in the 1960s, Hughes Aircraft Co. was one of many companies that recruited engineers by boasting of its involvement with space projects-even when that involvement was peripheral or the company was looking to fill unrelated positions. But Hughes was the real deal: This ad, from IEEE Spectrum's January 1964 issue, features Hughes's Syncom, the world's first geosynchronous communications satellite.