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May. 27, 2011
President Kennedy's "Moon Speech" Turns 50
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| In 1961, President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech to Congress calling for the country to "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." The goal was achieved by the end of the decade. Ira Flatow and guests discuss the beginning and legacy of the Apollo missions to the moon. |
Produced by Annette Heist, Senior Producer
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John M. Logsdon
Author: "John F. Kennedy and The Race to The Moon" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
Professor Emeritus of Political Science And International Affairs
Elliot School of International Affairs
George Washington University
Washington, DC -
Nicholas de Monchaux
Author, "Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo" (MIT Press, 2011)
Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
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John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
by John M. Logsdon
Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo
by Nicholas de de Monchaux
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