Logsdon to Discuss JFK and the Race to the Moon Tommorow at NASA
The NASA History office announced today that it is hosting a seminar tomorrow, July 27, where John Logsdon will discuss his new book John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon.
The discussion will take place at the NASA Headquarters auditorium from noon-1:00 pm EDT. Logsdon is an authority on JFK’s decision to embark upon a Moon race with the Soviet Union. An earlier Logsdon book, Decision to Go to the Moon, studied what transpired leading up to the President’s May 25, 1961 speech to Congress in which he announced the goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth before the end of the 1960s. The new book adds the action from that day through the President’s assassination in November 1963 as he publicly fought to maintain political support for the goal while privately questioning whether it was worth the cost.
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