Space Program
When the soviet Union launched Sputnik the space race was on. President John F. Kennedy was the president that really pushed this because we had to beat the soviet union. NASA is the program that was created to make an space shuttle. The shuttle's name was apollo 11. Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon and he put the us flag on the moon. Many people believe that this was all faked because why did we only go once? On May 22, 1961 JFK stood before congress to aske them for money to push this. We didnt exactly want to beat the Soviet Union we wanted to surpass the Soviet Union. They put in 7 to 9 billion dollars worth of money to go to the moon once. There really isnt too much to talk about with this because we already know so much and i dont want to repeat in my blogs i prefer to add things that people dont know to them, but in this case i can not do that because we have learned about this so many times in our learning though out the years.
Sources:
http://history.nasa.gov/apollo.html
http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/Space-Program.aspx
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