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However, due to the Space Race with Russia, President John F Kennedy announced the goal of landing an American on the moon’s surface, causing Apollo 11’s mission to change. The astronauts ...

See the Past, Present and Future of American Spaceflight in 4 Minutes Apollo 11 Had 3 Men Aboard ... s Son Watched his Father Lose the Space Race. 50 Years After the Moon Landing, He Holds ...

The United States finally abandoned the MOL program in June 1969, one month before NASA's Apollo 11 landed the first men on the moon. To many, the space race ended when Neil Armstrong and Edwin ...

A look back at Apollo 11: Florida Today coverage of the ... companies routinely launched satellites into space, there was swamp land and a race against time and a rival superpower, the Soviet ...

Both sides in the Cold War see their costly “Space Race” as a crucial battle of ... Introducing the Apollo 11 Crew: Neil Armstrong (commander), Buzz Aldrin (lunar module pilot), and Michael ...

None of these women, though, knew that they were marrying the soon-to-be heroes of the Space Race, and the men who ... all part of NASA gearing up for Apollo 11. When he went that time, Joan ...

November 3: Sputnik 2 carries Laika, a female dog, into space. Although the satellite ... circumlunar spacecraft. October 11-12: After extensive redesign work, Apollo 7, commanded by Wally Schirra ...