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John F. Kennedy: from Florida to the Moon (Images of Modern America)
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About John F. Kennedy: From Florida To The Moon
Product Description At 7:51 am on December 21, 1968, Apollo VIII launched from Cape Kennedy FL as Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders became the first humans to orbit the moon. This flight was broadcast in fifteen languages throughout fifty-four countries. On Christmas Eve, in a live broadcast, the crew read from the Book of Genesis with Commander Borman finishing with: "And from the crew ofApollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas and God bless all of you--all of you on the good Earth." One in every four people on earth was tuned in for that broadcast. In July of 1969, when Neil Armstrong stepped into the gray powder of the moon's surface it was 2978 days, 10 hours and 26 minutes after JFK stood before a joint session of Congress saying, "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth." Mission accomplished Mr. President! Herein is the story of JFK'S passion for the space program and his relationship with the men of Mercury, who laid the foundation of America's quest for the moon. From the Back Cover It was September 12, 1962, when Pres. John F. Kennedy delivered a speech at Rice University before nearly 50,000 people. By that time, America had launched but four men into space--the suborbital flights of Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom and the nearly identical three-orbit journeys of John Glenn and Scott Carpenter. Buoyed by the success of those missions and cognizant of the danger that lay ahead, the president rearticulated his vision and reissued his challenge to reach the moon before 1970. "We choose to go to the moon, in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills." The assassination of President Kennedy, in the words of flight director Gene Kranz, turned his vision into a "quest to do it and do it in the time frame he allotted." On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder of the lunar module known as Eagle, taking "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." About the Author Raymond P. Sinibaldi, author of John F. Kennedy in New England, pored over thousands of photographs from the John F. Kennedy Library and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to put together a riveting tale of John F. Kennedy and his relationship with the men who laid the foundation of the quest that took the United States of America from Florida to the moon.
