We're looking back on the many robotic and crewed missions we have sent to the Moon.
These studies yielded valuable information that allowed NASA to select landing sites for its crewed lunar missions. These would be conducted as part of theHaving sent the first humans to space and explored the lunar surface with robotic missions, the US and Soviet space programs began taking steps to send the first astronauts to the Moon.
Not only was this the next logical step in human space exploration; in the context of the Cold War and the"Space Race", it was seen as an accomplishment that was vital to both national interests and security." which was delivered on May 25th, 1961. In the course of the speech, Kennedy said the following:is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.
"We propose to develop alternate liquid and solid fuel boosters, much larger than any now being developed, until certain which is superior. We propose additional funds for other engine development and for unmanned explorations – explorations which are particularly important for one purpose which this nation will never overlook: the survival of the man who first makes this daring flight.
"For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding. [...]"There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all.
"We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.", which resulted in tragedy when the spacecraft experienced an electrical fire during a test run.
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