Space+Race

The US and other countries learned from the Nazi V 2 rocket program

media type="youtube" key="OdBh54MoZRE" width="560" height="315" Short bio on famous German rocket scientist who helped pioneer our space program [|Werner Von Braun]

Sputnik: The first man made satellite sent into space by the USSR in 1957. This jumpstarted [|NASA] (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) which was founded in 1958. Read about the [|history of NASA] (October, 1958) Joseph Kittinger..Mr. Johnson's hero media type="custom" key="15043264"[|Read more about Joseph Kittinger here] and the man who broke Kittinger's record on 10/14/12 here [|Jump from space] Wikipedia article: [|Joe Kittinger] media type="youtube" key="ZyIVaZXDhho" width="560" height="315" President JFK's famous speech inspiring us to go to the moon. media type="custom" key="14989730"Read the transcript of President Kennedy's famous [|We choose to go to the moon] speech here. The successful landing on the moon July 20,1969 [|Apollo 11] media type="custom" key="15045394"