The space race has been covered in both documentary ... In the early 1960’s, President John F. Kennedy declared to his team ...

President John F. Kennedy watched ... the first woman in space in the Soviet Union. The space launch in the Soviet Union was reported as an advancement during the Space Race of the 1960s, which ...

May 25: President John F. Kennedy, in his first State of the Union address, accelerates the space program and sets as a goal a moon landing within the decade. July 21: American astronaut Gus ...

Ed Dwight had to wait more than 60 years to fulfil his ambition to go to space. In 1961, he was chosen by then US President John F Kennedy as the ... farm's closure led to a race against time ...

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Promising a new generation of leadership, John F. Kennedy stated he would guide the nation out of the so-called “conservative rut.” Challenges: The arms race with the Soviet Union continued and ...

John F. Kennedy was relaxing by a Palm Beach pool in December, 1959, when his brother Robert, who had just taken the reins of his presidential campaign, approached. After enduring RFK's long ...

In his State of the Union message to the Congress on this date in 1962, President John F. Kennedy re-enforced ... year a great new effort in outer space,” Kennedy said. “Our aim is not simply ...