"Team Effort"
Magazine article
By: Thomas Gordon Platt
Date: July 7, 1969
Source: Platt, Thomas Gordon. "Team Effort." Newsweek, July 7, 1969, 55–56.
Introduction
The Russians shocked the world by launching the satellite Sputnik, the first man-made object to orbit the earth, on October 4, 1957. And on April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, became the first man in space—weeks before American astronaut, Alan Shepherd, traveled in space. In response to these Russian achievements, President John F. Kennedy (served 1961–1963) announced an ambitious space program to a joint session of Congress and the world on May 25, 1961. Its goal was to put an American on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Beating the Russians to the moon became a top priority, a matter of special national importance—and pride—at the pinnacle of the Cold War.
To realize the space program's...
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