President John F. Kennedy
The US space program that put astronauts on the moon was called the Apollo program.
The Pioneer space program was a series of unmanned missions to explore the planets in more detail. It was a US space program.
Sputnik I and II were a wake up call to the United States that the Soviet Union was getting ahead of the US technologically. The US pushed for more math and science education and to push the US space program.
The US Apollo program.
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Apollo Program
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They went into outer space in 1973
The US Space Shuttle program retired in 2011 after the final mission of Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-135) in July of that year.
The agency that oversees the US space program is NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). NASA is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research.