The Kennedy Legacy
May 25, 2011
In a speech to Congress 50 years ago today, on May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy challenged the nation to send a man to the moon and return him safely to Earth by the end of that decade. This video includes historical footage of the launches of Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard, whose flights helped prompt Kennedy’s speech, plus comments from Mercury astronauts John Glenn and Scott Carpenter, and Mercury Flight Director, Chris Kraft. credit: NASA
Topics:
Human Interest, NASA, NASA personnel, Mercury program, Disaster Accident, Space Race, The Right Stuff, Yuri Gagarin, Scott Carpenter, Mercury Seven, Astronaut, Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., John Glenn, Alan Shepard, John F. Kennedy, Politics