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When John F. Kennedy became President of the United States in January 1961, many Americans perceived that the United States was losing the Space Race with the Soviet Union, which had successfully launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, almost four years earlier.
The Kennedy brothers: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, and President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The Kennedy family is one of the most established political families in the United States, having produced a president, three senators, three ambassadors, and multiple other representatives and politicians.
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 ...
It was January 1961, and NASA was in its early years of existence. John F. Kennedy would soon declare the nation's goal of landing a man on the moon in that decade. But the country's best ...
Over the years, the compound expanded to include the “Big House,” a 21-room mansion meticulously decorated by Rose Kennedy, and two additional properties acquired by John F. Kennedy and Robert ...
In 1961, US President John F. Kennedy raised the stakes of the Space Race by setting the goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth by the end of the 1960s. [5] That same year, the US began the Apollo program of launching three-man capsules atop the Saturn family of launch vehicles.
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.
That month, Kennedy gave a speech at Rice University on the U.S. space program. The speech is famous for highlighting the Apollo program, but Kennedy also made reference to the new Center: What was once the furthest outpost on the old frontier of the West will be the furthest outpost on the new frontier of science and space.