President John F. Kennedy congratulates astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., the first American in space, on his historic May 5th, 1961 ride in the Freedom 7 spacecraft and presents him with the NASA ...

JFK and the space race 02:40. President John F. Kennedy's decision to commit the United States to "landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth" within a single decade, with only ...

Participants talked about President John F. Kennedy's decision to send a manned mission to the moon and the eventual moon landing in 1969. They also talked about the political, scientific and ...

On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy challenged the Soviet Union to a race to the moon. “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out ...

When Kennedy became president, he 'articulated a visionary strategy to leapfrog” the Soviets to assert space leadership, writes Douglas Brinkley in his new book, 'American Moonshot: John F ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. President John F. Kennedy came to St. Louis on Sept. 12, 1962, to visit McDonnell Aircraft Corp. in north St. Louis County ...

President John F. Kennedy, born 100 years ago today (May 29), wasn't the first U.S. president to oversee NASA, but it was he who in 1961 — amid a space race with the Soviet Union — set the ...

Once President John F. Kennedy was in office, he made the space race to the moon a priority in the ongoing Cold War against Communist Russia. And he made integrating the astronauts a priority as well.

Then, with instantly iconic remarks, President John F. Kennedy upped the ante: "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are ...

While we may remember the "one small step" more than anything else, the first Lunar Rover has its own interesting story ...

Mr. Shesol, a historian, has written extensively about the space race. ... wore buttons proclaiming John Glenn “the New Frontier man of the year,” a nod to John F. Kennedy’s famous phrase.

To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing, award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author Douglas Brinkley joins WGN Radio’s Dave Plier to take a fresh ...