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Program that culminates in a student competition. Students are encouraged to choose a topic in history and that can be anything, world history, local, national, state, ancient, modern, everything in between. As long they are interested in it. Then they go out and find they do research. And they find the resources to tell them the story, but also try to figure out the significance of their topics in history, so they are going into archives, into museums, into libraries, and they are sifting through primary sources, secondary sources. And then they are thinking critically about that and why thei...

Program is based on the philosophy that we don't want to pull a stunt and risk a man's life. for this reason, there are certain intermediate steps planned before we put a man in orbit. if this is successful, then and only then will we orbit. >> the project was the first real response to the sputnik and to yuri gregarin's flight and it was a big deal for us, i'll tell you because all of a sudden we had seven guys and they are fighter pilot types, very alpha male guys, fun to be around. it was like being with rock stars. >> it's a great day in houston as citizens turn out by the tens of thousand...