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President Kennedy entered the US into the space race in 1961.
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While President Nixon was a big supporter of space exploration, it was President Kennedy who actually started federal funding to finance it. It could be said, Kennedy started the space race.
President John F. Kennedy challenged the United States to have a man land on the moon and to take a leadership role in the "space race."
Nobody did. It was entirely metaphorical. There was no race, but the people who were involved were Nikita Khrushchev, the President of Russia at the time, and President John F. Kennedy of the United States.
Dwight Eisenhower was the president of the United States when the first satellites went into space. However, it was John F. Kennedy that challenged the rest of the world by stating the US would put a man on the moon in less than 10 years. That was the beginning of the space race.
John F Kennedy promised to put a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s.
John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States of America. Over the course of his presidency, the "Space Race" took place; Kennedy wrote several speeches pertaining to this. Years ago, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in the great state of Texas.
to fulfill President Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade and to beat the soviets in the space race
It was president John Kennedy who started the moon race.
He won the race by crossing the finish line first.
He is famous for being assassinated on November 22, 1963. He won a Pulitzer Prize and was very young when he served as president. He served during the Space Race, the construction of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis.