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2023.11.22 | JFK’s Final Space Year
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 22 November 2023:
Marking the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, this special episode of The Space Show plays and interprets both JFK’s public speeches about space in 1963 and the secretly recorded private Oval Office conversations in which space was discussed.
These recordings reveal the president’s doubts and conflicted attitude towards space activity, particularly the Apollo manned lunar landing program, and his advocacy for cooperation in space with the Soviet Union, all the while with an eye on the forthcoming 1964 presidential election. (Audio inserts and transcripts courtesy of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum)
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By Andrew Rennie for the Space Association of AustraliaOn The Space Show for Wednesday, 22 November 2023:
Marking the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, this special episode of The Space Show plays and interprets both JFK’s public speeches about space in 1963 and the secretly recorded private Oval Office conversations in which space was discussed.
These recordings reveal the president’s doubts and conflicted attitude towards space activity, particularly the Apollo manned lunar landing program, and his advocacy for cooperation in space with the Soviet Union, all the while with an eye on the forthcoming 1964 presidential election. (Audio inserts and transcripts courtesy of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum)