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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 headline "soviet fires earth satellite into space. it is circle the globe at 18,000 miles per hour, sphere...

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 president's goal. on july 20th, lunar mneil armst became the first person to walk on the moon. buzz aldrin soon followed him out the door. michael collins was circling above in their ride home the com...