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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.
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 ...
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.
As NASA prepares to blast off its new moon rocket, the space agency is poised to return to the moon for the first time in half a century. On this day 60 years ago, President John F. Kennedy ...
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 ...
America’s first Black astronaut candidate finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company on Sunday. Ed Dwight was an Air Force pilot when President John F ...
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 ...
And when President Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, the image of a 3-year-old John giving his father's casket a salute during the funeral became etched in the annals of history.