Titlebook: John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon; John M. Logsdon Book 2010 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010 John F. Ken

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Before the White House,n among many career paths. Kennedy’s own inclination seems to have leaned in the direction of becoming a journalist, a writer of nonfiction books, or even an academic. Kennedy’s father, Joseph, however, was determined that his sons not enter the business world; he had amassed sufficient wealth to al

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Making the Transition,”seventy-two days in which to form an administration, staff the White House, fill some seventy-five key Cabinet and policy posts, name six hundred other major nominees” and “to formulate concrete policies and plans for all the problems of the nation, foreign and domestic, for which he soon would be

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First Decisions, examined opportunities for U.S.-Soviet space cooperation,. and as James Webb took the leadership reins at NASA, there were two major issues on which a short-term presidential decision was needed. One was the specific role with respect to space to be assigned to Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Althou

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Space Plans Reviewed,couldn’t. Space was the only thing we could do that would show off our military power … These rockets were a surrogate for military power. He had no real options. We couldn’t quit the space race, and we couldn’t condemn ourselves to be second. We had to do something, but the decision was painful for

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,“I Am Not That Interested in Space”,pection tour of the facilities being developed for the accelerated space effort. That decision was the best approach to getting astronauts to the lunar surface. NASA in July 1962 had selected as its preferred approach rendezvous in lunar orbit, a way to the Moon that had emerged in its consideration

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Early Attempts at Space Cooperation,.. In light of his soon-to-be-made decision to enter a space race in competition with the Soviet Union, it is worth noting that JFK’s initial priority on becoming president was to make space an area for U.S.-Soviet cooperation. Kennedy came into the White House believing that science and technology