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Human Spaceflight: the Kennedy Legacy

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Uploaded by on May 25, 2011

In a speech to Congress 50 years ago today, on May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy challenged the nation to send a man to the moon and return him safely to Earth by the end of that decade. This video includes historical footage of the launches of Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard, whose flights helped prompt Kennedy's speech, plus comments from Mercury astronauts John Glenn and Scott Carpenter, and Mercury Flight Director, Chris Kraft.

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  • R.I.P JFK.

  • god bless you all ! and mars is next stop! :D GO NASA!!!

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  • i once fucked a banana tree.

  • one of the great American presidents

    "Ask NOT what your country can do for you but what you CAN DO for your country"

  • I dont get it how America is taking so long to put a man in Mars.

  • @MidNightRider2001 Sad but true.

  • Thank God for JFK. If we had a Bush or Obama back then, we never would have made it to the Moon.

  • Cool video, thanks for posting the JFK footage.

  • NASA is FTW -

    DFTBA guys, you're awesome!

  • "From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go." Tom Hanks

  • Man, Greg Kinnear was an inspiring guy!

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