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>> john f. kennedy joint session of congress, 1961. this nation was able to do what he challenged us to do there. about four years earlier in october of 57, the space race took off when the soviets launched a satellite about the size of a basketball named sputnik into orbit. in his new book "american moonshot," doug brinkley describes how massive a wake-up call that moment was for our country. he points out "the new york times" devoted nearly half its front page to the satellite with the headlin...

Of a battery, a radio transmitter and a fanlike cooling device orbiting the earth elliptically every 90 minutes. all the u.s. government could do was ask the 70,000 members of the american radio relay league, a society of ham radio operators or buffs, to help them track the soviet beeps. and as we know, a decade later in the summer of 69, the u.s. beat the russians to the moon, accomplishing the presidents goal. on july 20th, lunar mneil armst became the first person to walk on the moon. buzz al...