History’s most important speech about space almost didn’t happen. On Thursday, May 25, 1961, at 12:30 p.m., President John F. Kennedy took the podium in the U.S. House of Representatives ...

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 ...

President John F. Kennedy visited Marshall Space Flight Center on September 11, 1962. Here President Kennedy and Dr. Wernher von Braun, MSFC Director, tour one of the laboratories. "Up There!

On this somber anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy let's remember the why and how America ... U.S. Space Exploration, Once Championed By JFK, Faces Diminished Priority ...

At the beginning of 1966, at least 420,000 people were working directly or indirectly for NASA. More than 18,000 of those employees worked at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Space exploration returns to ... Aldrin and Michael Collins achieved President John F. Kennedy’s dramatic commitment to reach ... taken dramatic if brief flights to the edge of outer space.

For NASA, Kennedy was the right president at the right time. Yet his decision to prioritize space exploration was surprising. As a U.S. senator from Massachusetts from 1953 to 1960, Kennedy seldom ...

President Kennedy talked about the U.S. space program, arguing that America should be the leader in space exploration and the first to land a man on the moon. He said his goal to send a man to the ...

May 25, 1961--U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces the goal of sending astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade. ... This is part of a series examining 50 years of space exploration.

John F. Kennedy's stirring speech on September 12, 1962, sparked a passion for space exploration that eventually led us right to the moon.

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 ...