1961: Yuri Gagarin & Alan Shepard – First Men in Space
In 1961 mankind first rode rockets into space. The first man in space was Yuri Gagarin, a cosmonaut from the Soviet Union (Russia), orbiting the earth in a flight lasting 108 minutes. Eager to show that they too could put a man into space, the United States launched astronaut Alan Shepard shortly after Gagarin’s flight. The US was not quite ready to conduct a manned orbital flight, instead settling for a sub-orbital ballistic...
The Moon Speech – John F. Kennedy 1962
“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.” Words chosen and delivered well can propel man across the heavens. In 1962 US President John F. Kennedy gave a speech in which he explained his commitment to America putting a man on the moon, at a time when they had not even put a monkey into space. The cold war conflict with the Soviet Union was a...
Leaving On A Jet Plane (John Denver, 1966)
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