I’m Larry Freund.
Let’s Go To the Moon…Before the Russians Do!
Fifty-five years ago, on July 29th, 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower signed a law that created the American space agency. Eight months earlier, the Soviet Union had launched Sputnik One, the first man-made Earth satellite. Many American officials feared the country would lose the space race to the Russians, and they refused to let that happen.
The new space agency was called the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It soon became known simply as NASA.
NASA soon began planning for a project to send an American to the Moon, and return him safely to Earth.
That goal would be stated by President John F. Kennedy.
“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.”
Although President Kennedy did not live to see it, two American astronauts did land on the Moon and returned safely to Earth in 1969.
“For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the Moon and to the planets beyond.”
I’m Christopher Cruise, and that’s “As It Is” on The Voice of America.
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