INPE - 1970

• INPE Cachoeira Paulista unit is created.
  
  
  
  INPE's Unit at Cachoeira Paulista
• Neil Armstrong visits Brazil.
  
  
  
  Third from right to left: Fernando de Mendonça, Neil Armstrong, and Major Brigadier Alberto Sampaio, chief of the Air Staff.

  Worldwide

• Brazil holds the first network broadcast television by satellite

• The 1970 World Cup in Mexico, comes in colors to Brazil by experimental transmission to Embratel stations.