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Kennedy also viewed Friendship 7, the Mercury spacecraft in which Glenn had made America's first orbital flight. He took advantage of the opportunity to deliver a speech to drum up support for the nation's space effort. [8] [9] Initial drafts of the speech were written by Ted Sorensen, with changes by Kennedy. [10]
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president at 43 years.
Kennedy at age two with his father in the White House. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born at Georgetown University Hospital on November 25, 1960. [1] His father, Massachusetts senator John F. Kennedy, had been elected president less than three weeks earlier [2] and was inaugurated two months after his son's birth.
Nearly 100 years ago, one of the most fondly remembered U.S. presidents was born. John F. Kennedy was born May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts, a little town just outside of center Boston.
A member of the Kennedy family, he is a son of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and a nephew of President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy began his career as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan. In the mid-1980s, he joined two nonprofits focused on environmental protection: Riverkeeper and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
English: Video of the National Aeronautic Space Administration's coverage of President John F. Kennedy's address at Rice University, Houston, Texas, concerning the nation's efforts in space exploration. In his speech the President discusses the necessity for the United States to become an international leader in space exploration and famously ...
Materials based on Hubble Space Telescope data may be copyrighted if they are not explicitly produced by the STScI. See also {{PD-Hubble}} and {{Cc-Hubble}} . The SOHO (ESA & NASA) joint project implies that all materials created by its probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use.
Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal for the 1960s of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. It was the third US human spaceflight program to fly, preceded by Project Gemini conceived in 1961 to extend spaceflight capability in support of ...