First published in 1994 in the NASA Monograph in Aerospace History
series. From the introduction: "On 25 May 1961 President John F.
Kennedy announced to the nation a goal of sending an American
safely to the Moon before the end of the decade. This decision
involved much study and review prior to making it public, and
tremendous expenditure and effort to make it a reality by 1969.
Only the building of the Panama Canal rivaled the Apollo program's
size as the largest non- military technological endeavor ever
undertaken by the United States; only the Manhattan Project was
comparable in a wartime setting. The human spaceflight imperative
was a direct outgrowth of it; Projects Mercury (at least in its
latter stages), Gemini, and Apollo were each designed to execute
it. It was finally successfully accomplished on 20 July 1969, when
Apollo 11's astronaut Neil Armstrong left the Lunar Module and set
foot on the surface of the Moon." Illustrated.
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