JFK's Moonshot Speech

On September 12th, 1962, President Kennedy gave an impassioned speech defending the country's decision to devote resources towards a moon mission. Over 50 years later, that speech is just as motivating as it was the day he delivered it at Rice University.



How The Cold War Launched The Space Race

During the Cold War, one battlefront between the USA and USSR was in the sky, as the nations fought to be first to space.



Go or No Go?

As Apollo 11 raced to the moon, a small team in NASA's mission control room monitored 1,500 items of constantly changing information. With an average age of 32, the team needed cool heads to make lightning-fast decisions that would affect the outcome of the mission.

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