48 story structure, as wide as a city block, and as long as two lengths of this field.

The growth of our science and education will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe and environment, by new And it's unusual for a rocketeer or an engineer to be brought into top policymaking.

He called himself a German American. And the spin-offs that Webb always understood, it wasn't just about going to the moon or having global prestige or winning a Cold War battle, it was about new technology. new dangers.

succeeds in reaching Venus, we will have literally reached the stars before midnight tonight. own. Historian John Logsdon said that John F. Kennedy was sincere when he twice offered to partner with the Soviet Union during the Space Race The first offer was made in 1961, just 10 days … Then once he's president, of course, Yuri Gagarin goes into space, the Soviet cosmonaut. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of adventure on which man has ever embarked. MATT PORTER: Right. [In Kennedy's brief time in office, the United States had already suffered two key Cold War defeats to the rival USSR. for we have given this program a high national priority--even though I realize that this is in some measure an act of faith and A year earlier, a Russian had … And Kennedy now allows, on May 5th of 1961, Alan Shepard to go. He liked to be first.

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. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest

But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that we shall send to the moon, the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. And Kennedy and Von Braun have a very unique history throughout the '50s, so much so that Von Braun voted for Kennedy and very much for him, didn't like Eisenhower. You can also follow us on Facebook and Instagram. (NASA launched Alan Shepard successfully on May 5, but his 15-minute flight only reached suborbital space.

our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the So Webb was able to bring in the two leaders of space on Capitol Hill into Kennedy's New Frontier moonshot pledge. This is a breathtaking pace, and such a pace cannot help but create new ills as it dispels old, new ignorance, new problems, clustered together to make the advanced Saturn missile, assembled in a new building to be built at Cape Canaveral as tall as a

And we like to think of space, the space race, these days as that promise of a new frontier, that bold leadership, that focus on innovation and discovery.