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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Kennedy Reaches for Moon 50-Years Ago


EXTRAORDINARY TIMES: On May 25, 1961, United States President John F. Kennedy announced before a special joint session of Congress the dramatic and ambitious goal of sending an American safely to the Moon before the end of the decade. The speech came only days following the first suborbital flight of astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. Kennedy also noted in this speech the need to develop a rover nuclear propulsion for exploration beyond the moon and the far reaches of the solar system.

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