Sim, um pouso na televisão foi previsto em uma história da Era de Ouro que eu conheço: "Tudo a bordo para a Lua " (romance, 55000 palavras) por Harold M. Sherman em Amazing Stories , abril de 1947 , disponível em Internet Archive . Aparentemente nunca foi reimpresso.
O seguinte trecho é parte do discurso de Gil Benson ("playboy; diabo com as mulheres; e rico") pouco antes de decolar para a lua em sua nave espacial movida a energia atômica, o adeus, mundo! :
"I'm also indebted to the General Electric Company of Schenectady for permitting me to install a hitherto untried sending and receiving radio set which beams radio waves of such high frequency that we are confident they can penetrate both the Heavyside [sic] and Appleton layers which surround the earth, at respective levels of sixty and two hundred miles, so that we can keep in constant touch with this planet during our travels and while on the moon.
"These new instruments, in conjunction with the television apparatus we are carrying, will permit us to scan some of the moon's surface and project back to earth the actual scenes as we are witnessing them. You know, of course, that television waves travel in a straight line and from the vantage point of the moon they can be beamed directly to earth. In fact, could a television station be established on the moon, we could then beam all television shows to the moon and relay them back to earth on a straight line so that they would be receivable everywhere."