3/29/2023 0 Comments Race into space successor![]() Relive the Apollo launch at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s Mission Zone: Race to the Moon. Launch in T minus 10, 9, 8.Īt Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex’s Mission Zone: Race to the Moon, you’ll find yourself transported back to the 1960s, alongside NASA engineers and astronauts constructing rockets, launching into space, and finally, taking mans first steps onto the moon. The race to the moon was not only a race to discovery, but it was also a race against all-out war. A failure would give the Soviets the edge in a race toward mutually assured destruction. 2 A successful moon landing would put the Soviet Union in her place and make the Soviets think twice before starting trouble. It was vital for the United States to pull ahead. The Soviets had already pulled ahead in the “space race,” with Sputnik and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becoming the first human in space. That was all President Kennedy needed to hear.Īfter all, this was the height of the Cold War, a life-and-death race with America’s arch rival and global superpower, the Soviet Union. Though it may have seemed far-fetched to the average listener, NASA leaders had been interviewed, and they believed, if they pushed themselves, they could have a man on the moon before the decade was out. The longest an American had been in space was fifteen minutes, and now he wanted someone on the moon. Land a man on the moon? Was President Kennedy out of his mind? President Kennedy announces the space race, 1961. ![]() ![]() No single space project.will be more exciting, or more impressive to mankind, or more important.and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish. I believe that 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 the Earth. Kennedy made an announcement that must have sounded ludicrous. ![]()
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