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| 99% | First, 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. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind or more important for the long-range exploration of space, and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish. We propose to accelerate the development of the appropriate lunar spacecraft. We propose to develop alternate liquids and solid fuel boosters, much larger than any now being developed, until certain which is superior. We propose additional funds for other engine development, and for unmanned exploration. Expirations which are particularly important, for one purpose which this nation will never overlook, the survival of the man who first makes this daring flight. But in the very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon. We make this judgment affirmatively, it will be an entire nation, for all of us must work to put him there. | ▶️ |
| 92% | Before the exploration of space, of the moon and planets, man held that the heavens were the home and province of powerful gods, who controlled not just the vast firmament, but the earthly fate of man himself, and that the pampin of powerful warring deities was the cause and reason for the human condition. | ▶️ |
| 99% | the exploration of outer space. | ▶️ |
| 90% | In a ceremony in the Rose Garden, President Eisenhower named Keith Glennon to hit the newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which will also be known as NASA. Sources say the creation of NASA demonstrated that Ike has finally given in to pressures to take a more active stance on competing with the Soviet space programs. NASA's charter will commit the independent agency to researching and developing vehicles and activities for the exploration of space. In separate news, the bodies of two high-ranking American officials were found shot to death in their cars. He a physicist, Andrew Goldman, and military strategist William Stahl that served together in the Alaskan Expedition to investigate the meteor deposits of the bright 1952 shower. As of yet, authorities have not found any connection between the bizarre murders. | ▶️ |
