Description It was September 12, 1962, when Pres.
Buoyed by the success of those missions and cognizant of the danger that lay ahead, the president rearticulated his vision and reissued his challenge to re.
By that time, America had launched but four men into space--the suborbital flights of Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom and the nearly identical three-orbit journeys of John Glenn and Scott Carpenter.
Kennedy delivered a speech at Rice University before nearly 50,000 people.
John F.
Description It was September 12, 1962, when Pres