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25th May 1961: Kennedy announces plan for manned moon landing
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2018-05-24 21:05:19
Description: On the 25th May 1961, American President John F. Kennedy made the announcement to a joint session of Congress that he had set his sights on a manned moon landing before the end of the decade. To many people, including some personnel at NASA, Kennedy's address seemed ridiculous. The USA had only sent its first man into space 20 days earlier and, although Alan Shepard's spaceflight aboard Freedom 7 was a huge success, the USSR's Yuri Gagarin had already become the first man in space three weeks before that. Taking on the USSR at a technological game that they were ...
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