This is a breathtaking pace, and such a pace cannot help but create new ills as it dispels old, new ignorance, new problems, Soviet Union. 1960, the presidency. adventure on which man has ever embarked. (NASA launched Alan Shepard successfully on May 5, but his 15-minute flight only reached suborbital space. Kennedy does an amazing job, and it becomes a big bipartisan effort to fund Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. Why not 1975? Aeronautics and Space Administration expects to double the number of scientists and engineers in this area, to increase its "So you're spending more money today than you would like to spend just on the stuff associated with facilities. If we are not, we should decide today and this year. We have never specified long-range goals on an urgent time schedule, or managed our resources and our time so as to insure their fulfillment.“I therefore ask the Congress, above and beyond the increases I have earlier requested for space activities, to provide the funds which are needed to meet the following national goals:“First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the earth. "Get breaking space news and the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!Thank you for signing up to Space. This gives promise of some day providing a means for even more exciting and ambitious exploration of space, perhaps beyond the Moon, perhaps to the very end of the solar system itself.“Third, an additional 50 million dollars will make the most of our present leadership, by accelerating the use of space satellites for world-wide communications.“Fourth, an additional 75 million dollars--of which 53 million dollars is for the Weather Bureau--will help give us at the earliest possible time a satellite system for world-wide weather observation.“Let it be clear – and this is a judgment which the Members of the Congress must finally make – let it be clear that I am asking the Congress and the country to accept a firm commitment to a new course of action, a course which will last for many years and carry very heavy costs: 531 million dollars in fiscal '62 – an estimated seven to nine billion dollars additional over the next five years.
I'm a rocketeer building rockets. It's an afternoon, joint session of Congress, when he makes the pledge, we'll put an astronaut to the moon and bring them back alive by the end of the decade. Well, Doug, thank you so much for joining us on the podcast. And it will be done before the end of this decade. With the advice of the Vice President, who is Chairman of the National Space Council, we have examined where we are strong and where we are not, where we may succeed and where we may not. Radar comes out of World War II. Its hazards are hostile to us all. MATT PORTER: Right. leadership in science and in industry, our hopes for peace and security, our obligations to ourselves as well as others, all require 240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston, a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of this football field, this whole 50-year span of human history, the steam engine provided a new source of power. "Literally on the way up to give the speech, Kennedy just strikes through that and says, 'by the end of the decade,'" Launius said.The Apollo program achieved Kennedy's goal on July 20, 1969, when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans ever to set foot on a world beyond Earth. And they found, I believe in your book, just this American lieutenant before the Soviets got to them. It means we cannot afford undue work stoppages, inflated costs of material or talent, wasteful interagency rivalries, or a high turnover of key personnel.“New objectives and new money cannot solve these problems. We have felt the ground shake and the air shattered by the testing of a Saturn C-1 booster rocket, many times as powerful as

The would-be revolutionaries were defeated within three days.And the Soviets had notched another huge victory less than four years earlier with the surprise launch of Sputnik I, the world's first artificial satellite, in October 1957. Vice President Pence has recently suggested that. Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic?
You talked with Armstrong about that, and he had an answer for why we haven't seen that type of drive like we did in the 1960s today. And he is an amazing administrator. climb it. So it is not surprising that some would have us stay where we are a little longer to rest, to wait. "I know there have been attempts by NASA administrators over the years to try to close down centers, and they've been stopped at every turn," Launius said. Right now, we're in an age where people are denying science. But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that we shall send to the moon, Thomas, Senator Wiley, and Congressman Miller, Mr. Webb, Mr. They could in fact, aggravate them further--unless every scientist, every engineer, every serviceman, every technician, contractor, and civil servant gives his personal pledge that this nation will move forward, with the full speed of freedom, in the exciting adventure of space.“ See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, The year Kennedy and his advisers originally had in mind for the first manned lunar landing makes clear that Cold War concerns motivated the president.

vision, for we do not now know what benefits await us. Houston, your City of Houston, with its Manned DOUG BRINKLEY: Beside John F. Kennedy, the other two important people on going to the moon are Lyndon Johnson and James Webb. The US had, for example, brand new types of planes, military aviation. And Von Braun has success after success after success. And with the money, things can happen.