Story - 1 -
They were going to the moon, all right - at least
that was the plan. That was the dream and the
challenge set forth by one man, President John F.
Kennedy, when he declared in May of 1961: "I
believe 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 Earth."
-Team Moon: How 400,000 People
Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon,
Catherine Thimmesh
Story - 2
July 1969. It’s a little over eight years since the flights of Gagarin and Shepard, followed quickly by president Kennedy’s challenge to put a man on the moon before the decade is out.
- July 20, 1969: one giant leap for mankind
NASA
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