President Kennedy addressed a joint session of Congress stating that the US would send a man to the Moon and return him safely to Earth before the decade was out. Although NASA had been performing studies in the previous years on the feasibility of human space flight, this was a tall order for an agency still in its infancy. NASA had been…
President Kennedy addressed a joint session of Congress stating that the U.S. would send a man to the Moon and return him safely to Earth before the decade was out. Although NASA had been performing studies in the previous years on the feasibility of human space flight, this was a tall order for an agency still in its infancy. NASA had been working on expanding its network even further in order to accommodate communications beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
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