NASA holds G+ hangout today for Neil Armstrong and Kennedy’s Moon Speech “Today, Wednesday 9/12, NASA will pay tribute to Neil Armstrong and the 50th Anniversary of President Kennedy’s “Moon Speech” at 12pm PT / 3pm ET, with NASA astronauts, scientists and engineers coming together in a one-hour Google+ hangout to remember historic NASA innovations and discuss the future goals for scientific discovery and human spaceflight.”

NASA Highlights 50th Anniversary of Kennedy ‘Moon Speech’ and Looks Ahead “NASA is offering a variety of special features to commemorate the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s address at Rice University in Houston on Sept. 12, 1962. In that famous speech, Kennedy proclaimed, “We choose to go to the moon in this decade,” which set the United States on a course of space exploration that we continue to build on […]

An Open Letter to Neil Armstrong, Gene Cernan, and James Lovell, Dennis Wingo, SpaceRef “Recently, a joint letter was penned by three legendary Apollo lunar astronauts berating the Obama Administration for “Grounding JFK’s Space Legacy” and declaring that a coherent plan for maintaining America’s leadership in space exploration is no longer apparent. While it may be that the current administration’s plans are not perfect – and a new national debate […]

NASA Commemorates Moonshot Moment’s Golden Anniversary Agency Looks to the Future and Beyond Low-Earth Orbit “Fifty years ago, a young president struggling with deepening international issues set a fledgling space agency on a course that would change the history of human exploration. NASA commemorates President John F. Kennedy’s historic speech that sent humans safely to the moon with a series of activities and a commitment to continue the journey of […]

Apollo plus 50 – The meaning of the race to the moon, half a century after the starting gun, The Economist “As to whether it is was worthwhile, there is no accountant’s answer even 50 years on. The Apollo project cost about $150 billion in 2010 dollars, five times as much as the Manhattan Project and 18 times the cost of digging the Panama Canal. It is not easy today […]

Summoning the Future By Remembering the Past, Dennis Wingo “Almost exactly 100 years and nine weeks before the famous speech by President Kennedy at Rice University calling for what would be known as the Apollo program, the U.S. Congress, in the middle of a war for the life of the nation, passed the Pacific Railway Act of 1862. The “national” railroad as it was called was chartered by the government […]