55 Years Ago: Nine Months Before the Moon Landing

55 Years Ago: Nine Months Before the Moon Landing

In October 1968, the American human spaceflight program took significant steps toward achieving President John F. Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth before the end of the decade. American astronauts returned to...
Space: The Final Frontier

Space: The Final Frontier

September 12 1962 President Kennedy stood in front of the nation and the world at Rice Stadium and proclaimed that : We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard,...