Okay, new parts for my Time Machine, let's shoot for 1939 and the New York World's Fair...drat, still out of calibration, let's see where we are-hold on a minute, is that who I think it is? Let's grab a lawn chair and binocula…
Okay, new parts for my Time Machine, let's shoot for 1939 and the New York World's Fair...drat, still out of calibration, let's see where we are-hold on a minute, is that who I think it is? Let's grab a lawn chair and binoculars...
September 12, 1962-and the United States is losing the Space Race to its economic and ideological rival the Soviet Union. Sputnick was the first satellite in space, Yuri Gargarin the first man in orbit-and things looked grim. It wasn't just the National Pride at stake, though there was that also-the Soviets had the same Atomic Weaponry that we did. Anybody who could reach Outer Space could reach any place on Earth with Nukes-what if the Reds decided to encircle the globe with them in orbit? If they reached the Moon first, would they claim it for the USSR?
Well President John F. Kennedy Jr. decided that the time had come to pull ahead in this Race. He mentioned his intentions to 'reach the Moon before 1970' in a May 25, 1961 speech-but it was this follow-up speech, delivered September 12 of 1962 at Rice University,that truly lit the fire under the American people. More polished, more eloquently delivered and with a more complete grasp of the scope of the project and what needed to happen in order to make it a reality, this second speech succeeded in loosening Congressional purse strings and lit a creative fire under the fledgling NASA. Result? Neil Armstrong walking on the Moon July 21, 1969...
This historic feature was archived and preserved by multitudes of sources-this particular copy, kept in a state of perfect preservation, is available from the US Library of Congress-and as I tinker with my Temporal Emitters I raise a cup of strong, black coffee to the men and women who put us on the Moon, and the President who inspired us...Sound, Color.
